Engineering and art

There are connections between engineering and art. They are direct in some fields (for example - architecture, landscape architecture and industrial design) and indirect in others.

The Art Institute of Chicago, for instance, held an exhibition about the art of NASA's aerospace design. At the University of South Florida, an engineering professor, through a grant with the National Science Foundation, has developed a course that connects art and engineering.

Among famous historical figures Leonardo Da Vinci is a well known Renaissance artist and engineer, and a prime example of a link between art and engineering.

2. ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE / BIOLOGY

The study of the human body is an important common link between medicine and some engineering disciplines. Medicine aims to help human body and in some cases - to replace functions of the human body, if necessary, through the use of technology.

Modern medicine can replace several of the body's functions through the use of artificial organs and can significantly change the function of the human body through artificial devices such as, for example, brain implants and pacemakers. The fields of Bionics and medical Bionics are dedicated to the study of synthetic implants which belong to natural systems.

Some engineering disciplines view the human body as a biological machine which must be the object of study. So they try to imagine many of its functions by replacing biology with technology. This has led to fields such as artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and robotics. There are also substantial interdisciplinary interactions between engineering and medicine. Medicine studies the function of the human body. The human body, as a biological machine, has many functions that can be modeled using Engineering methods.

The heart for example functions much like a pump, the skeleton is like a linked structure with levers, the brain produces electrical signals etc. These similarities has led to the development of the field of biomedical engineering that uses concepts developed in both disciplines.

So, both fields provide solutions to real world problems. Therefore, experimentation and empirical knowledge is an integral part of both.