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> it's a process of optimization within a solution space bounded by constraints That just describes problem solving.
by bmitc 5y ago
> it's a process of optimization within a solution space bounded by constraints
That just describes problem solving.
- rowanG077 5y agoYes exactly! The word engineer comes from the latin ingeniare which is partly derived from ingenium which means clever. The entire job of an engineer is cleverly solving problems.
- bmitc 5y agoEveryone solves problems in their jobs. Engineers are not the only problem solvers in society. On another tangent, I wish we’d redefine what it means to solve engineering problems. I have noticed that there’s this property of engineering that as problems are solved, new ones are created. So it’s this never ending cycle of new problems blossoming.
- taneq 5y agoYou clearly haven’t met many of ‘everybody’. People of all occupations solve problems, yes. Most humans barely do, though. In terms of creating new problems, making life better is an under-defined, open-ended problem. There’s always a lowest-hanging fruit, that doesn’t mean we should stop picking them.
- rowanG077 5y agoI would definitely say anyone who cleverly solves technical problems is an engineer.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoNow we just need to define "solve", "cleverly", and "technical". What if their solution is non-technical, still an engineer?