Engineer Definition and 849 Threads

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost. The word engineer (Latin ingeniator) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to create, generate, contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness"). The foundational qualifications of an engineer typically include a four-year bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, or in some jurisdictions, a master's degree in an engineering discipline plus four to six years of peer-reviewed professional practice (culminating in a project report or thesis) and passage of engineering board examinations.
The work of engineers forms the link between scientific discoveries and their subsequent applications to human and business needs and quality of life.

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  1. A

    Retired engineer - fascinated in cosmology and astrophysics

    I am working on a new theory of a potential alternative explanation for observed dark matter phenomena. Should be able to share soon.
  2. Nesrine24

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  3. P

    Engineer in the field of magnetohydrodynamics and its use in seawater

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  4. Xuedong He

    What Does a Laser Engineer Do?

    Hello I am a laser engineer interested in Physics.
  5. J

    Chemist unwillingly turned chemical engineer

    Hello, I'm just out of grad school working now as a chemical engineer, though the problems I've been asked to solve are quite varied in nature. I've known about and have used physics forums for a while, and just got around to making an account. I hope to learn a lot from here.
  6. Will Smythe

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    Have Engineering Degree, will travail and travel by most any conveyance. Now at 78 and possessed of a perpetually curious mind...to the great consternation of my long sufferin' girl friend ... am perched here in the trackless wilds of Northern California, and in unsteady control of a...
  7. L

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  8. Sanjeevm

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  9. Ziqi

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  10. Gifovaco

    Hi, I'm new here.

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  11. I

    EE in maritime

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  12. alessalessio

    Hello from AlessAless

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  13. U

    Bad at math and great at physics, explain this paradox?

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  14. M

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  15. J

    John Beattie

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  16. RonG

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  17. gmascorro

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  21. M

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  30. N

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  31. F

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  33. M

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  39. R

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  41. Smitnak

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  42. Mousa Kandah

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  43. S

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  44. S

    Other How can I know I'll be a good engineer?

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  45. octopus26

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  46. G

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  47. Jake Ng

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  48. D

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  49. danton133

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  50. codyschellinger0731

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