Engineering
Definition from Wikipedia
"Engineering is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design, build, and maintain structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. It may encompass using insights to conceive, model and scale an appropriate solution to a problem or objective."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering
看下午的演讲者Jenn Garrett的简介，有一句话是"She developed the practice of engineering her ideas through drawings while teaching technical drafting and presentation drawing as a graduate student at the University of Florida. 注意到engineering这个动词，略有触动，想到了当年上金融课的时候老师也在黑板上写下这个词，当时的话题是Financial Engineering，现在觉得Engineering这个词范围很广，不只是头脑里简单的工科学生做的事情，冷机械，冷操作。而是解决问题的思想在里面，将想法现实化，建模，针对一个问题或目标构架一个合适的解决方式。再去看看engineering her ideas就可以理解了嘛。
作为这个博客开篇，存放自己理性的部分。