I started off my artistic career the moment I could hold a pencil. My first drawings? Trash. Thankfully, I have greatly improved. I'm nowhere near the best, but when it comes to sketching a design for a new robot, I definitely feel confident in my abilities.
Engineering in its purest form is just math, art, and science thrown together to create something. Wording it that way makes it sound boring though. I prefer to say, "Engineering is what comes from innovation, and the desire to learn about the unknown." Do you want to be a scientist and build a cool machine? That is basically the long way to say you want to be an engineer. If you want to narrow it down, maybe you want to be a scientist that builds machines that measure the instability of a storm system (here in the Midwest, the more instability, the more tornados, most of the time). The fancy word for that would be a meteorological engineer.
What I have been explaining is this, if you are a scientist or really just anyone who designs and builds stuff, you are probably an engineer. Not to say everyone who does that is, but it applies to most. To be an engineer, you don't necessarily have a college degree, though that does help. It also helps to be very detail-oriented and good with design. Half of an engineer's job is to design something, whether those entail sketching, pseudocode, or prototyping (this is normally father in the process though). So, it's basically just a fancy word for an artist who uses math and science in their work... That is why I call myself an engineer and artist. I do traditional art (I am not great at it), and engineering (I am much better at it than normal art). I hope to keep updated on engineering projects I am working on, along with some traditional art.
Sincerely,
The Astronaut
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