WHAT IS ENGINEERING?
In simple terms, engineers identify a
problem, and come up with a solution – often creating something completely new
in the process.
Traditionally, engineering is about
infrastructure. Engineers were known to create bridges and vehicles that got us
from A to B faster more efficiently. Now engineering is acknowledged as a
discipline that opens up opportunities and creates technology and products that
help make our lives easier.
Engineers are shaping the future by
applying their skills to almost everything you can think of, from medicine to
renewable energy, food technologies to sustainable mining. There really is no
limit to what engineers can do.
Engineering is the application of scientific
knowledge to solving problems in the real world. While science (physics,
chemistry, biology, etc.) allows us to gain an understanding of the World and
the Universe, Engineering enables this understanding to come to life
through problem solving, designing and building things. The electronic
device you are using to read this article was engineered from raw plastic,
metal, silicon and lines of software code before being transformed into a
usable device.
Engineers can be distinguished from other professions by
their ability to solve complex problems and implement solutions in cost
effective and practical ways. This ability to face a problem, work through
various thoughts and abstract ideas and then translating them into reality is
what is so exciting about engineering.
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