Introduction to Engineering

Engineering is the human activity that deals with the application of technology. Personally I like to say that engineering is "reverse science. " This will explain later.

Engineering is about making, designing, creating. The focus of engineering is to apply knowledge to turn a situation in another situation better. So engineering is to get from point A to point B. Where A is the current status and B is a future situation where we met our goals.

What do we mean by a better situation?

A better situation is one where we have more comfort, more quality of life, that is where we make less effort to satisfy our need. Therefore engineering pays close attention to the objectives that have to do to satisfy need.

The goals are a hierarchy. Project should have a single root goal. This is usually called general goal. This in turn subdivided into specific objectives, which may be related to a need or not. When a goal is associated with a specific need is subdivided into a kind of objectives to which we will call requirements.

When you run a engineering project, it is important to distinguish which goals are requirements and which not. From this initial classification is triggered the whole process of engineering.

Once we have identified and requirements related to a need, we also know that person belongs to every need. Any person that is going to meet a need by the project will call involved.

It is advisable to consider that while the project meets need also create new need. For example if the project creates a product, it also creates the need for technical support on this product, training to use the product, and possibly change management needed to create new versions. These need are also included in the project so that it also can satisfy those needs.