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means A person trained to design, build, and maintain machines, structures, or systems using scientific and mathematical principles.
from From the Latin 'ingenium' — natural talent, cleverness, the spark of invention — which gave Old French 'engigneor,' a deviser of ingenious things. The earliest engineers were military: builders of 'engines' of war, the catapults and siege towers that won (or lost) sieges. Only later did the word march off the battlefield to claim bridges, railways, and circuits. Note the family resemblance to 'ingenious' — same root, same praise for a clever mind at work.
- root word
- from Latin 'ingenium' — cleverness, not 'engine'
- the ring
- Canadian engineers wear iron rings as a humility oath
- failure obsessed
- designs for the disaster, hopes for the ordinary
- first ones
- ancient 'military engineers' built siege machines and roads
- margin of safety
- trusts the math, then doubles it anyway
gustave eiffel — french engineer who designed the eiffel tower, completed 1889 in paris
isambard kingdom brunel — british engineer who built the great western railway and ss great britain in the 1800s
nikola tesla — serbian-american engineer who developed alternating current electrical systems in the 1890s