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# Engineering

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Engineering: Turning ideas into reality by means of technology. The practioners of this art are called engineers. Origionally the term applied to those who built engines but later evolved to include all fields where the skills of application of the scientific method are used.

Engineering is a controlled, documented, scientifically supported / qualified way of acting as a single person or a group of persons to apply the technology of a subject field to construct, perform or otherwise process a projected item.

- [Aerospace engineering]?
- Chemical engineering
  - [Petrolium engineering]?
- Electrical engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Software engineering
- [Structural engineering]?
- [Food process engineering]?
- Civil engineering
- [Control engineering]?
- [Nuclear engineering]?
- Computer science
- Industrial and manufacturing engineering
- [Environmental engineering]?
- [Bioresource engineering]?
- Social engineering
- Systems engineering
- Nanoengineering?

Some engineering related topics are:

- Rheology
- Dimensionless Numbers
- Thermodynamics
- Reverse engineering
- Engineering Statistics
- SI unit

See also technology, presented as an opposite to science. But what is the difference between technology and engineering?

/Talk

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