Differences and similarities between scientists and engineers?

Answer 1

Typically, a scientist will have an average of three more years of advanced education above that of corresponding engineer colleagues. Loosely speaking, the scientist focuses on discovering previously unknown scientific facts while the engineer focuses on making recent discoveries more practical to implement. Engineers outnumber scientists in most fields and span disciplines from construction all the way to bio-medicine and beyond. The two disciplines clearly overlap in scope. If a physicist discovers something and has difficulty proving or illustrating the discovery, an engineer is the most likely candidate for facilitating some sort of convincing demonstration. The discovery of gasoline, for example, required mostly scientists while the creation of the gasoline engine and the automobile required mostly engineers. Clearly, the two disciplines affected the direction of one another simultaneously.

Science, n. Investigation of natural phenomena.

Engineering, n. Domestication of natural phenomena.

Technology, n. Domesticated natural phenomena.

Answer 2

A scientist is a person who has scientific training or who works in the sciences. An engineer is someone who is trained as an engineer. So, to my way of thinking, the practical difference lies in the educational degree and the description of the task being performed by the scientist or engineer