Engineering Marvel

An invention that showcases exceptional ingenuity, skill, and innovation, often pushing the limits of technology or design to solve complex problems.

The F-35 is an engineering marvel in aviation

by nvsnu February 2, 2026

Engineering of Science

A metascientific framework that treats science as something that can be designed, built, and optimized—an engineered system rather than a natural phenomenon. The engineering of science examines how scientific institutions, practices, and systems can be deliberately shaped to produce better outcomes: more reliable knowledge, more efficient discovery, more equitable participation, more socially beneficial research. It draws on insights from metascience, sociology of science, and science policy to ask practical questions: How should peer review be designed? What funding mechanisms produce the best science? How can scientific careers be structured to encourage innovation while maintaining rigor? How can scientific institutions be made more resilient, more adaptive, more just? The engineering of science treats science as a human artifact—something we have built and can rebuild—rather than something we simply study and accept.

Example: "His engineering of science proposal redesigned the grant review process to reduce bias and increase innovation—treating funding decisions not as natural occurrences but as systems that could be optimized like any other engineered system."

by Dumu The Void March 16, 2026

Mastering Engineering

An online homework program designed to rob college students of their hard-earned money and serve as a crutch for professors too lazy to write their own homework assignments or to teach. Its purpose, beyond making millions for the publishing company, is apparently to reduce the number of engineering graduates in the United States by utterly demoralizing and destroying their confidence in an effort to force them to drop the program and/or kill themselves.

I used up all but one attempt on this stupid Mastering Engineering problem, before I realized it had switched everything to kiloOhms instead of Ohms! And then I still got it wrong! FML!

by kypok April 16, 2012

hillbilly engineering

Having to make due with what you have, because you know you won't be getting anything else. Creations that aren't sophisticated or pretty but they get the job done.

The system of cables they use to move cut timber down the mountain has got to be the ultimate in hillbilly engineering.

by knowman March 30, 2008

Mastering Engineering

The number one cause for depression and suicide in engineering students. This program is so incompetent Satan wouldn't even use it to punish the damned because he wouldn't have the patience to input the 30 letter and number sequence to open the account. See also Mastering Chemistry, Mastering Physics, Mastering literally insert anything here. They're all equally crap.

"My professor assigned us Mastering Engineering this semester."
"That's rough buddy *ties you a noose*"

by Imjustnotfeelinguptoitrightnow May 1, 2016

chemical engineering

1) Hardest of the engineering disciplines and probably the hardest undergrad major ever. By the time you are three years into it, you'll hear strange noises at night and get increasingly paranoid. Some go insane or so the legends tell.
2) making other majors sound worthless
3) intense rape

Dude 1: "What's your major man?"
Dude 2: "Chemical Engineering"
Dude 1: "...how long do you think you'll last?"

by intenseflowrate October 23, 2013

Aerospace Engineering

A field where your best will never be good enough and girls are rarer than a shiny Pikachu.

college freshman: "I don't really care about happiness in life, or enjoying college..I think I'll go into aerospace engineering."

by shiny pikachu February 10, 2013