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engineering
is about...
You are now entering the Trinity engineering
is about website. These pages, as you probably
have guessed, are about informing you on what engineering
is all about and on what engineering at Trinity College
Dublin is about.
Engineering is basically about using
mathematical and scientific principles together with
analytical and design skills to devise new solutions
to practical problems. Such problems might be related
to the physical infrastructure (roads, buildings, machines,
etc) or the information infrastructure (telecommunications,
computers, electronics, etc.)
Engineering has many different aspects:
its underlying theory and its practical applications;
its well-established structural achievements that surround
us, and its cutting-edge new technologies; its scientific
formalisms and its free-ranging design creativity. Engineering
comprises activities ranging from reading technical
journals to researching technical issues, using computer-aided
design tools to explore and analyse novel solutions
or designs, to building prototype systems and machines.
Above all, as an engineer you have to be able to tell
other people what you are doing and to convince them
that you are right in what you are doing.
We invite you to explore these many
diverse aspects by navigating through these pages. Reflected
here, you will find the range of engineering disciplines
and what they are concerned with, the many and varied
activities carried out by engineers, the professional
skills and academic programmes developed at Trinity.
Engineering is a challenging but satisfying and rewarding
life path. We hope that you will see the evidence for
that within these pages and that you will find among
the diversity of what is here enough to convince you
that rising to the challenge of engineering at Trinity
is worthwhile.
We will describe the following four
disiplines:
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