Engineer
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An engineer is someone who practices the engineering profession; a professional practitioner of engineering; someone who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems and produce goods for society.
The word technologist is largely synonymous. It comes from the prefix Techno- and the suffix -ologist: Meaning someone who studies technology.
In railroad terminology, the word engineer also designates a person who operates a locomotive engine, an engine driver.
See also
Disciplines of Engineering
- Chemical engineering
- Civil engineering
- Combat engineering
- Computer engineering
- Construction engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Environmental engineering
- Forensic engineering
- Genetic engineering
- Geotechnical engineering
- Industrial and manufacturing engineering
- Marine engineering
- Materials engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Military engineer
- Nuclear engineering
- Petroleum engineering
- Safety engineering
- Security engineering
- Software engineering
- Structural engineering
- Systems engineering
- Traffic engineering
- Transport engineering
Lists of engineers
- List of aerospace engineers
- List of chemical engineers
- List of civil engineers
- List of computer engineers
- List of electrical engineers
- List of industrial engineers
- List of materials engineers
- List of mechanical engineers
- List of inventors
- List of architects
- List of urban planners
- List of scientists
- List of heroic fictional scientists and engineersde:Ingenieur