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Originally Posted by CDavidNeely
Greetings and Felicitations,
I am looking for a comprehensive listing of the different kinds and topics of both engineering and science. What I need is a list of engineering fields and the sciences broken down into their respective disciplines. I have tried multiple options including wikipedia and MIT but none of their listings is what I am looking for. I would appreciate any help you can give me.
Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely
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Welcome to BAUT Dave,
This is a very good question and I hope others can only add to my distinctions---
As a Bachelors Chemist/technician -- I have worked on research and with engineers on projects in industry.
As a Research "Chemist-technician"--I was asked to "explore" aspects of nature that could be exploited for profit. Once the discovery was made and data recorded and conclusion verified. The finding was passed onto Development "Chemists" who are assigned to see if the discovery could be further developed --or scaled to a proportions of chemical plant proportions. Afterward, if successful, research engineers try to further develop the "discovery" to scales of "pilot plant" proportions. If that is successful, then chemical engineers are to develop the discovery to full plant proportions...
There are many aspects to the marketing of a scientific discovery for profit that I have purposely left out --I worked on proprietary projects and for those who may have worked similar types of projects...it is important that your competitors don't get a wind of your discovery or work
-- (e.g. once I had left my place of employment-- I had learned that one of the projects that I helped to "pretty-much" spearhead was beaten to patent rights --just barely). Anyway that is water under the bridge...
In terms of disciplines: mostly PhD scientist are used to initiate projects and mostly secure their funding -- the M.S. and B.S. scientist technicians do most of the lab work-- for the most part.