... known as “engine-ers.” In French, German, and Spanish todaythe word for engineer is ingenieur, and in Italian it is ingegnere.So, again—What is an engineer? An engineer is a creative, ingenious ... andmaterials, mining, nuclear, ocean, petroleum, sanitary, systems, textile, and transportation.Engineers work in industry and government, in laboratories and manufacturing plants, in universities,on ... electrical engineering, electrochemical engineering, materials engineering,and mechanical engineering.What is common to the branches of engineering is their use of fundamental ideas involving variables,numbers,...