The fascination with examining the pieces and designing a more useful product often starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. A degreed electrical engineer for more than 30 years, Brusso's enthusiasm for his profession hasn't lessened over time. He's still very inquisitive and always pushing to find ways to make designs come to life. There are various forms, but basically they extend the value of a design into its real-world applications. Let me explain it another way.
Someone designs lighting fixtures.
The person designs the way these fixtures are installed, wired and put into a building. The applications engineer's function is not to design the fixture, but to design the installation and the functionality of the fixture within its space. I'm an electrical engineer in terms of applications of electrotechnology. In the electronics industry, application engineers support the design of machine tools that are used in manufacturing processes to determine the best methods and procedures for applying those machine tools. In the case of a product manufacturer, that application engineer would wear many hats.