Category:Scientific Engineering

The advancement of funadamental scientific reseach is hardly possible without experimentation. A given experiment may require equipment that is both mundane and commonplace or it may require equipment that is sufficiently exotic that is simply cannot be found anywhere at any price. Scientific engineering is a discipline focused narrowly upon crafting the means, however exotic, for the pursuit of fundamental scientific research. Given the limited scale at which fundamental scientific research exists in the Land of Mists, there is a very small market for the products of scientific engineering and consequently very few scientific engineers. The individual doing funadmental scientific research may be obliged to become his or her own scientific engineer. And rarely is such an individual interested in supplying rivals, even for a price, with the keys to breakthrough that are deemed to be proprietary. In universities a scientific engineer may be on staff with call on his or her time and resource divided among the various projecsts in funadmental research. In either case, the results of scientific engineering are first and foremost functional. No thought is given to pleasing design for there is essentially no marketplace for these wares. The results are also fragile and ponderous. Scientific engineering is essentially about building equipment destined to occupy secure and spacious laboratories for individual who are vastly more concerned with cost than with portability or durability.