Origins of Engineers and Beginning of Engineering Education

Origins of Engineers and Beginning of Engineering Education
Definition of engineering:Creating something useful from other things using science and mat hor turning ideas into reality.
In Turkish ‘muhendis’ was derived from hendese whose meaning is geometry.In English perhaps most of the people suppose that engineer derived from engine.But this information isn’t true.It derived from ‘ingenuity’ whose meaning is creativity or rationalism.
It has been pretty well agreed that the words 'ingenuity' and 'engineering' in English and 'ingéniosité' and 'ingénierie' in French are linked to the same Latin word-root and that the verb 'to engineer' means 'to be ingenious.' So the kinds of things engineers have done have been generally ingenious. And the word 'engine' means 'an ingenious and useful device.
In prehistoric times,most of the people live,work or hunt like an engineer,although they didn’t know that these activities included engineering knowledge.But the schools of engineering weren’t founded until the 18th century. The first schools of engineering were founded in France in the middle of the 18th Century. "The first engineers were military engineers, employed by the government, who concerned themselves with subjects such as roads, bridges, and fortifications.By the turn of the Century, France had established military and polytechnic schools to teach engineering that produced such notables as Laplace, Lagrange, and Fourier. "
Resources


http://engineer.ucla.edu.tr
http://www.akillisinif.anadolu.edu.tr/dosyalar/ppt/20071001/26_67.ppt