Engineering

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Engineering (disambiguation).

The steam engine, a major driver in the Industrial Revolution, underscores the importance of engineering in modern history. This beam engine is on display in the Technical University of Madrid.

Engineering is the application of mathematics, empirical evidence and scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, innovate, design, build, maintain, research, and improvestructures, machines, tools, systems, components, materials, processes and organizations.

The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technologyand types of application.

The term Engineering is derived from the Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise".

Contents

  [hide] 

• 1Definition
• 2History
  • 2.1Ancient era
  • 2.2Renaissance era
  • 2.3Modern era
• 3Main branches of engineering
• 4Practice
• 5Methodology
  • 5.1Problem solving
  • 5.2Computer use
• 6Social context
• 7Relationships with other disciplines
  • 7.1Science
  • 7.2Medicine and biology
  • 7.3Art
  • 7.4Business Engineering and Engineering Management
  • 7.5Other fields
• 8See also
• 9References
• 10Further reading
• 11External links