Engineering (Bookshelf)

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of people. The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD, the predecessor of ABET) has defined "engineering" as:

[T]he creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.

—Excerpted from Engineering on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

See also Technology (Bookshelf)

• Concrete Construction; Methods and Costs  Gillette, Halbert Powers, 1869- and Hill, Charles Shattuck, 1868-
• Opportunities in Engineering  Horton, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1879-
• The Mechanical Properties of Wood; Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing  Record, Samuel J.