Technology & Engineering
Modern Engineering
Modern engineering refers to the application of scientific and mathematical principles to design, develop, and improve structures, machines, systems, and processes. It encompasses various disciplines such as civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering, and often involves the use of advanced technologies and materials to address complex challenges and create innovative solutions for the modern world.
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eBook - ePub- Graeme Dandy, David Walker, Trevor Daniell, Robert Warner, Graeme Dandy, Trevor Daniell, Bernadette Foley, Robert Warner(Authors)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
st Century.An updated and more general definition of the overall field of engineering was made in 1958 by the US Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology: Engineering is … “the profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences, gained by study, experience, and practice, is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind”.In this statement (quoted in Voland, 2004) the list of specific design skills has been removed and the theme of working for the benefit of mankind has been introduced. The idea of working economically has also been included. In fact, concepts of cost control and economic operation began to be used overtly in engineering work in the late 19th Century. These are important considerations in all Modern Engineering work, although when new, innovative techniques are being developed and used for the first time, the main problem may be to get the project completed successfully. A distinguished engineer has ruefully suggested that it is often better, financially, to be the second or third person to use a new, innovative process.In the middle of the 20th Century there were still five main engineering branches: civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical and mining engineering, but, following the Second World War, development was rapid in all fields of engineering and many new branches of specialisation appeared, and matured. Subdivisions of the traditional fields, and the appearance of completely new engineering disciplines, have continued to this day. The newer engineering branches flourishing towards the end of the 20th Century included aeronautical, aerospace, agricultural, automotive, biomedical, coastal, computer systems, electronic, environmental, mechatronic, medical, optical, rehabilitation, and transport engineering, to name but a few. The pace of engineering innovation and development has if anything accelerated into the 21st
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