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That makes it even more subjective!! What's your definition of engineering?

• retrocryptid 3y ago
  https://www.nae.edu/19579/19582/21020/221074/221278/Presidents-Perspective-What-Is-Engineering https://www.nae.edu/19579/19582/21020/221074/221278/Presiden... I would also argue that "engineering" as a discipline, as part of the "operations" clause in the link above requires a close observation of the economics of any proposed solution. In other words, engineers have to worry about costs.
  • roflyear 3y ago
    If your definition is "The systematic application of scientific knowledge in developing and applying technology." I think we can agree.
    • retrocryptid 3y ago
      FWIW, I went through a journey a couple years ago to try to define the term "software engineer." I notice there were A LOT of people just throwing code around or just copying and pasting random crap from stacktrace and aws demo code w/o understanding what it did. I think inherent to the "application of scientific knowledge" part of the definition is an implication there's a mental model where the engineer is manipulating abstractions in the model to get to a solution. I found this book useful (and short): https://academic.oup.com/book/591 https://academic.oup.com/book/591