Which field(s) of engineering did you have in mind? One obvious application would be to find the minimum dimensions for a box to contain a number of identicall

Which field(s) of engineering did you have in mind? One obvious application would be to find the minimum dimensions for a box to contain a number of identically-shaped physical parts. This would be a three-dimensional packing problem. Another application could be to find out how to run the maximum number of VMs on a finite quantity of physical machines. This would be a multidimensional packing problem, possibly irregular since the VMs could have different memory, CPU, disk storage, etc. requirements.