introduction to engineering

What is engineering ?

nothing compares to engineering, as the most practical,creative, and useful profession. but what is engineering? the name comes from the word "engine", and originally it was a man responsible for running a technical installation. the word "engine" draws from latin and it means an invention, a technical creation, based on ingenuity. i will try to explain engineering by using the following five concept:

1.  science : engineering is based on mathematics and algorithmic representations and models of the world, like a science; actually it relies on many disciplines of pure science
2.  creativity: engineering is sheer creativity, alming at creating all useful artifical object known; not all sciences are creative, some are descriptive, as geolgy, anatomy, biology, astronomy, and history, from the perspective, engineering is not far from art sometimes
3.  practicality: as opposed to fundamental or pure sciences, engineering is an applied science, relying on both theory and experiments to solve practical problems, engineering solves real life problems and nothing is more than reality
4.  wide scope: engineering is rich mix of disciplines, covering a broad scope of knowledge, as opposed to specialized sciences
5.  realism: sometimes engineering is considered the "art of compromise"