What is Engineering?: Crash Course Engineering #1
In our first episode of Crash Course Engineering, Shini explains what engineering is, and gives a brief overview of its four main branches (civil, mechanical, ...
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You live in a world of creations. All of the things you see around me were created by people. The technology that’s being used to record me, and watch me, were likewise created. And not by lone geniuses, but by whole teams – sometimes entire generations – of clever designers. Those designers were engineers. And engineers are, when it comes right down to it, creators. The word “engineering” itself comes from the Latin ingenium, meaning “cleverness”, and ingeniare, meaning “to design or devise”. And that makes sense, since you have to be clever if you’re going to solve the problems that engineers face every day. Now, you might think of engineering as a kind of science – and that’s not wrong. But it’s more useful to think of science as a tool, a tool that engineers...
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You live in a world of creations. All of the things you see around me were created by people. The technology that’s being used to record me, and watch me, were likewise created. And not by lone geniuses, but by whole teams – sometimes entire generations – of clever designers. Those designers were engineers. And engineers are, when it comes right down to it, creators. The word “engineering” itself comes from the Latin ingenium, meaning “cleverness”, and ingeniare, meaning “to design or devise”. And that makes sense, since you have to be clever if you’re going to solve the problems that engineers face every day. Now, you might think of engineering as a kind of science – and that’s not wrong. But it’s more useful to think of science as a tool, a tool that engineers...
