Engineering

Engineering is the application ofmathematics, empirical evidence andscientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, innovate, design, build, maintain,research, and improve structures,machines, tools, systems, components,materials, and processes.

The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application.

The term Engineering is derived from theLatin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise".