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In article <MAINE.91Jul30091013@altair.dfrf.nasa.gov> maine@altair.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine) writes:
  [ various comments about engineering ]

I was talking about the licensed engineering professions. In this sense
of engineering I only mean to include what the dictionary defines as
engineering: viz., the methodical application of scientific theory to
create useful items. There is a very definite distinction between this
and art. Certainly some ``engineering'' fields---e.g., architecture---
are part engineering, part art; an objective test would necessarily omit
the art. Let's not confuse these two different meanings of the word.

> Certainly there are mechanics who understand little of the theory
> behind designing engines, and there are mechanical engineers who
> can't use a screwdriver.  That doesn't mean that the fields are not
> closely related and that some teen-age car hobbyists don't go on
> to become mechanical engineers.

Oh, come on. You just made my point. Just because a few people happen to
be skilled both in mechanics and in mechanical engineering doesn't mean
that the fields are the same. As you just said, they're different.

---Dan