Engineering is the discipline, skill, and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.
The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD, the predecessor of ABET) has defined "engineering" as:
The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, appara...
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Organizations in this sector:
- AACE International ,
- ASM International ,
- Aeronautical Society of India ,
- American Ceramic Society ,
- American Foundry Society ,
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ,
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers ,
- American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ,
- American Society of Civil Engineers ,
- American Society of Safety Engineers
Subdisciplines:
- Civil Engineering ,
- Industrial biotechnology ,
- Electrical engineering ,
- Materials Engineering ,
- Medical Engineering ,
- Nanotechnology ,
- Chemical Engineering ,
- Mechanical Engineering ,
- Environmental engineering ,
- Environmental biotechnology
Schools of this kind:
- École Supérieure d'Électricité ,
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering ,
- Polytech'Nice-Sophia ,
- UC Berkeley College of Engineering ,
- NMAM Institute of Technology ,
- Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology ,
- Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology ,
- Government Engineering College, Trivandrum ,
- Bhilai Institute of Technology - Durg ,
- Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering
Also known as:
- Engineering and design,
- Engineering (MAN AG)
