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Between
Engineering

and Science
Javier Aracil

Long Before Science Took its First Steps,
Engineers Applied Reasoning to Handle
Natural Phenomena

W

hen I was an engineering
student, during the 1960s,
a common joke was that if a
space rocket reached its
goal, it was called a success
of science; but if it did not succeed, then it was a failure of engineering. This witticism is a sample of the latent
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dispute between science and engineering. Science has
played a fundamental role in the development of modern engineering by showing how the natural world behaves, but this does not mean that engineering lacks
strong autonomous and original features, and the field
can be reduced to a mere corollary of science. In fact,
technology, and its most elaborate form, engineering,
appeared many millennia before science did. In this article, the question of the relationship between engineering and science is discussed, and contributions
from some new points of view are made.
Although humankind is eager for the useful things
produced by technology, science has acquired a dimension that transcends, in the intellectual media, that

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