What is engineering?

Abstract

For some years it has been insisted that there is a great shortage of engineers in the world, it seems to be running out of vocations to perform this noble work; why is this happening?, the reasons are many and complex, but a welldefined one is the ignorance; there is no clear idea about what engineering is, neither the functions of an engineer. It is not an accident the relationship between quantity of engineers in a country and its quality of life. So truth is it that several governments around the world are promoting the study of engineering as one of its guiding principles.