What’s an Engineer?


How’s this for recursive definitions:

  • Mathematician: one who performs mathematics.
  • One who performs mathematics is a mathematician.

And you can use the same circular logic to define an engineer.

I suggest defining an engineer the same way as one defines a businessman:

  • engineer: one who sees engineering opportunities where no one else does.

The trick is to get your client around to the same viewpoint. Now that’s a salesman.

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One Response to What’s an Engineer?

  1. jabbathehutt says:
    July 30, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    How about engineering consultant (like Jabba).

    ConSult stands for Con and Insult…… that’s what I do to my client daily. I love my job.

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