Is there a different thought process between engineers and scientists? Ignoring of course "scientists" (social sciences) and "engineers" (civil or nuclear)
>>16982743At the extremes:Scientists generally value novel insights and observations with little regard to useful application.Engineers generally value useful application over novelty. Engineers innovate by taking the "tried and true" to untested extremes.Scientists innovate by testing extremes trying to discover what's true.
>>16982743From personal experience>Scientists approach problem-solving from a "let's start from first principles" approach>Engineers approach problem-solving from a "let's start with whatever solution this looks closest to and modify it" approachThere's pros and cons to approaching it both ways, engineering approach tends to be faster and more efficient, but can overlook new innovations. Scientist approach may come up with something new, but may also spend a lot of time solving a problem that's already been solved.
yes engineers are gay
>>16982743>"engineers" (civil or nuclear)Rude
>>16982743Yes.In engineering you use the rules to remove the bad outcomes. In science you use the outcomes to remove the bad rules.
>>16982743Big gay babies, engineers are.
>>16982743Yes, but there’s a lot of cross-over. In general, an engineer applies known solutions to new problems and a scientist looks for new knowledge, so an engineer will look to modify an existing solution to fit their problem whereas a scientist will often start from first principles, like this anon said.>>16983710That said, any good R and D engineer is a competent scientist and any good experimental physicist is a competent engineer.
>>16985075>so an engineer will look to modify an existing solution to fit their problem whereas a scientist will often ...... look to extend an existing paradigm to fit their data.
>>16985075>That said, any good R and D engineer is a competent scientist and any good experimental physicist is a competent engineer.True. I think most of the difference comes from slight differences in teaching philosophies in science vs engineering programs.
