Engineering Is Not Science
9th December 2010
Science is about understanding the origins, nature, and behavior of the universe and all it contains; engineering is about solving problems by rearranging the stuff of the world to make new things. Conflating these separate objectives leads to uninformed opinions, which in turn can delay or misdirect management, effort, and resources.
In short: Engineers build useful stuff. Scientists don’t.
December 9th, 2010 at 13:03
“Engineers build useful stuff. Scientists don’t”
You obviously know different engineers than I do. Most of them just mess up a design that most high school kids in shop class could lay out, and then take credit if it ever works.
There are many people with engineering degrees; there are very few engineers. You can quote me on that.
December 10th, 2010 at 08:15
To quote George Carlin: ‘If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.’