An artist is a person who presents something by putting a frame around it. Not necessarily a literal frame, either. A definition so broad as to be applicable al

An artist is a person who presents something by putting a frame around it. Not necessarily a literal frame, either. A definition so broad as to be applicable almost anywhere. So broad that is risks being all but meaningless. But I think we can agree that an engineer has different goals than an artist even in the broadest definition of both. An engineer is someone who uses well understood solutions and techniques to solving problems that involve the physical world. This is distinct from science, which tries to discover new ways to solve problems or learn new things about the physical world. Often you need to use engineering to do science. So often that the scientists spend a lot of time waiting around for the engineers to move them along. (See: LHC).