section_path: Definition
section_name: Definition
paragraph_text: Definition
  
  The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD, the predecessor of ABET) has defined "engineering" as:
  
  The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.