Scope of a field

References

Universalized Narratives. Patterns in How Faculty Members Define "Engineering"

http://shawnreeves.net/documents/protected/PawleyHowFacultyDefineEngineering.pdf

Teaching faculty in engineering are portraying engineering as problem-solving, applied math, and making things, whereas the U.S. National Academy of Engineering is asking them to portray engineering as skill, knowledge, processes, values, practices, and attitudes that are socially relevant and socially beneficial.