Engineer and Engineering Design The word engineer has Latin roots in ingeniare (i. e. to contr devise")and ingenium(i.e. cleverness") An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering who has mathematical and scientific training and can apply such knowledge together with ingenuity to design and build complicated products, machines, structures or systems and thus develops solutions for technical problems An engineering design pulls together(i. e synthesizes) something new or arranges existing things in a new way to satisfy a recognized need of society. Engineering designs considers the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation safety, and costEngineer and Engineering Design • The word engineer has Latin roots in ingeniare (i.e. “to contrive, devise”) and ingenium (i.e. “cleverness”). • An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, who has mathematical and scientific training and can apply such knowledge, together with ingenuity, to design and build complicated products, machines, structures or systems and thus develops solutions for technical problems. • An engineering design pulls together (i.e. synthesizes) something new or arranges existing things in a new way to satisfy a recognized need of society. Engineering designs considers the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost. 2