What is Environmental Engineering

Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. 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. Engineering is the application of science and math to solve problems. Engineers figure out how things work and find practical uses for scientific discoveries. Scientists and inventors often get the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures. synonyms: practical · scientific · applied · applying science · non-theoretical · technological · high-tech · hi-tech the action of working artfully to bring something about. "if not for his shrewd engineering, the election would have been lost"