Gliwice, Poland

Quality Engineering

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Quality Engineering at PŚ

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
University website: www.polsl.pl/en

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Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
Quality
Hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Job. XLI. 24. reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 653.
Engineering
When I looked at the science of engineering and saw that it had disappeared after its ancient heritage, that its masters have perished, and that their memories are now forgotten, I worked my wits and thoughts in secrecy about philosophical shapes and figures, which could move the mind, with effort, from nothingness to being and from idleness to motion. And I arranged these shapes one by one in drawings and explained them
Al-Muradi, The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas, 11th century; Translated and cited at leonardo3.net/bookofsecrets/index, 2015
Quality
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle II, line 43.
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