Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

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Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

—William A. Smith

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man… To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.

—T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.

—Sir Eric Ashby

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.

—S. E. Lindsay

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

—Ralph J. Smith

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