Engineering the utilization of science to the ideal transformation of the assets of nature to the employments of mankind. The field has been characterized by the Engineers Council for Professional Development, in the United States, as the innovative utilization of "logical standards to plan or create structures, machines, device, or assembling procedures, or works using them separately or in mix; or to build or work the equivalent with full awareness of their plan; or to conjecture their conduct under explicit working conditions; all as regards a proposed capacity, financial matters of activity and wellbeing to life and property.