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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING

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The terms "Technology" and "Engineering" is often found to be confusing and used interchangeably even among Engineers, scientists and other groups of learned people, perhaps because they are all basically ways of doing the same thing, but the reality is that there's a difference between them. Now let's the discuss the definitions of both, explain the things they share in common and come up with the differences in conclusion. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Engineering is defined as the application of science to the optimum conversion of the resources of nature to the uses of humankind. Whereas technology is defined as the the sum of the ways in which social groups provide themselves with the material objects of their civilization. It's also defined as the systematic way of solving problems and creating things for the benefit of mankind. Here there's something in common and equally something in different with the definitions of the above two ter