Wikipedia defines engineering as the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items.
Engineering is a scientific field and a type of job that involves using critical thinking, math, science, design skills, and creativity to invent, design, and build things that can solve problems.
What do engineers do?
Engineers may build –
- roads and bridges
- skyscrapers
- cars, planes, and rockets
- computers
- software to make tasks more efficient
- industrial machines, tools, and equipment
- solutions to environmental issues.
So, as you can see – we are surrounded by the work of engineers in our daily lives.
Engineers take ideas or problems, apply critical thinking and create a practical way to take the idea to reality.
As co-founder of STEAMism and TimeforAI, Divya is a creative force with a million ideas running through her head at any single moment. She is motivated and curious - involving herself in multiple initiatives, including being a VolunTeen at Thinkery Children's Museum and a Teen Court volunteer.. She loves debate, writing, learning, connecting to others, and mentoring.
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