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engineering	has definition The process of solving problems by applying, in a disciplined, systematic and ethical way, scientific and economic knowledge and principles to the design and maintenance of products or processes
	has economic constraints resources are finite it is not worth doing something unless the benefit gained from it outweighs its cost, and if somebody else can perform some particular task more cheaply or faster than us, they will succeed instead of us
	is a subtopic of 1.3 - Software Engineering as a Branch of the Engineering Profession
	is a kind of discipline
	is a kind of process
process	see also process^2

Kinds of engineering :

• chemical engineering (2 facts)
• civil engineering (2 facts)
• computer engineering (4 facts)
• electrical engineering (2 facts)
• mechanical engineering (2 facts)
• software engineering^2 (6 facts) - The field of study of how to effectively do the process of software engineering
• systems engineering (5 facts) - A type of design that involves deciding which requirements should be implemented using hardware, and which using software