Question: what is engineering about

Alex Jaeger answered on 9 Nov 2015:

Its about solving problems! Technical ones mostly…

These problems can be anything from creating the next best computer role plating game (*cough* Fallout 4 *cough*) to designing a ship for space exploration.

If you want a more general answer, Engineering is the application of mathematics and science for to solve problems (i.e build cool stuff)