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engineering Definition

en·gi·neer·ing (en′jə nir′iŋ)

noun

    1. the science concerned with putting scientific knowledge to practical uses, divided into different branches, as civil, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering
    2. the planning, designing, construction, or management of machinery, roads, bridges, buildings, etc.
  2. the act of maneuvering or managing

engineering Synonyms

engineering

n.

  1. The act of turning material to use

    construction, manufacturing, organization, organizing, building, arranging, constructing, implementing, authorizing, systematizing, systematization, handling; see also sense 2.

  2. The science of applying power to use

    design, planning, blueprinting, structure(s), surveying, metallurgy, architecture, heavy construction, light construction, industrial construction, shipbuilding, installations, stresses, communications; see also sense 1.

    Branches of engineering include: acoustic, aeronautical, agricultural, architectural, chemical, civil, contracting, design, electrical, flight, food, heating, highway, human, industrial, irrigation, marine, mechanical, military, mining, naval, nuclear, petroleum, radio, railroad, sanitary, stationary, steam, systems, traction, transportation.

engineering Usage Examples

Preposition: as

  • career: It includes profiles of female engineers and information about engineering as a career.

Preposition: in

  • agriculture: A common application of genetic engineering in agriculture is the development of crops which produce their own insecticide.

Adjective modifier

  • genetic: You can't do genetic engineering in your back garden.
  • mechanical: The course was a heavily carved out piece of mechanical engineering, worthy of Isambard Brunel or whatever his name was?
  • electrical: This will teach him about all of the necessary elements of electrical engineering, from installing lighting systems to changing plugs.
  • civil: These are largely self- explanatory, the resource center search engine indexes more than 15,000 web documents in the area of civil engineering.
  • geotechnical: To prepare a graduate geologist and, or, engineer for professional practice in engineering geology and, or, geotechnical engineering.
  • structural: The prerequisite for the course is a background in structural engineering provided in the earlier years.

Modifies a noun

  • discipline: The MSc course at Loughborough gives us the opportunity to recruit from other engineering disciplines.
  • consultancy: In the ten years prior to moving to the Department of Engineering, he worked for an engineering consultancy.
  • feat: As an engineering feat alone, the monument was quite an achievement.
  • department: In the engineering department I give a specialist fourth year lecture course on process control.
  • profession: Of the 230 members, most work in the highway and allied civil engineering profession and industry, including many very well known organizations.
  • graduate: Qualifications: Engineering graduate, with five or more years ' experience in at least the first two of the areas below.

Noun used with modifier

  • precision: The company is a subcontract precision engineering company with premises on the Carlyon Road Industrial Estate that has been trading for 27 years.
  • tissue: The techniques we develop would have a wide range of medical applications including tissue engineering.
  • software: Should have had roles in the career path, which include junior software engineering.
  • chemical: We are one of only three chemical engineering departments in the UK to be graded at this level.
  • usability: Evaluation is treated as the central core in usability engineering.
  • manufacturing: The Pilot project involved several industrial collaborators and a leading university in manufacturing systems engineering.
engineering Quotes

The engineering of consent.

—Bernays, Edward