Something crosses my mind a few days ago while thinking what is the function and responsibility that an engineer has to carry out which differs from a scientist. Are engineers required to publish their findings similar to what scientist do. After giving a serious thought in the matter, what I can conclude is that engineers are basically hired to solve problem that the company faces. For instance in the semiconductor industry we might have problem with the capacity of the wafer that is required to be moved through a certain processing steps. As an engineer we are required to provide plausible solution to the impregnable problem without the company to have to invest in the additional tools in order to support the higher move requirement.
A scientist is someone who actually delves into a known problem in the society and hence finding a solution to the problem that the society is facing. So what a scientist normally does is that he or she will eventually perform a literature review in order to ascertain whether the problem that he or she is planning to work into has not been studied by anyone else or he might be looking for an alternate method in finding the solution.
So as engineer we are been paid to find solution to the problem that the company is facing and while we do that maybe find some interesting aspect in our path towards the solution so that we will not get bored with what we are doing in the company.
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