Yet, for most Americans, engineering is a stealth profession, invisible but for its results. The two faculty members were correctly identified as professors of mechanical engineering. Scientists work to uncover the secrets and develop orderly descriptions of nature.
Engineers use science to create useful things.
Both are involved in research. In general, however, engineers apply science to design and create all manner of things. Yet the fact that consumer products, industrial materials, bridges, roads, and rockets exist at all is a testament to the success of an engineering education. Engineers have changed the world. Vanderbilt is proud to have one of the oldest and most distinguished engineering schools in the South.