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⇑Engineering Sciences at Leuphana University Lüneburg

Language: German Studies in German

Subject area: engineering and engineering trades

University website: www.leuphana.de

degree: Dr.-Ing.

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Engineering

Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.

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Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

Thomas Tredgold (1828), used in the Royal Charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) published in: The Times, London, article CS102127326, 30 June 1828.

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Engineering: The art of organizing and directing men, and of controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

Henry Gordon Stott. Presidential address, 1908, to American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Cited in: Halbert Powers Gillette (1920) Engineering and Contracting. Vol. 54. p. 97

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Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

John Prebble, in Disaster at Dundee, 1956. p. 16

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