What is Engineering?

• Set in a social context, engineering is a profession concerned with the creation of new and improved systems, processes and products, to serve human needs as they are expressed by individuals, communities, governments and corporations.

• Its central focus is design, an art entailing the exercise of ingenuity, imagination, knowledge, skill, discipline and judgement based on experience.

• The practice of professional engineering requires sensitivity to the physical potential of materials, to the logic of mathematical analysis, to the operational principles of processes and systems, to the constraints of human resources, physical resources and economics, and to the social and environmental context for society, now and into the future.