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From: jwb@cive.ri.cmu.edu (John Baugh)
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Subject: Re: Difference in Degrees (or Why "Ph" in PhD?)
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Date: 13 Feb 89 15:27:25 GMT
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In article <912@afit-ab.arpa> efrethei@blackbird.afit.af.mil 
(Erik J. Fretheim) writes:
>Engineering on the other hand comes more often from Drawing and such 
>departments.

What?  I believe the basis for enineering begin with people like Newton
and Hooke, though their theories weren't consistently applied until the
nineteenth century.  At this time, a Frenchman named Cauchy generalized
the concepts of stress and strain, which were then used by the French.
Before this time, pragmatism (without theory) was the rule (e.g., the 
master builders).

I'm not sure how this fits in with university studies, but wasn't the
initial distinction in engineering based on military/civil?

John Baugh
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