Is there beauty in engineering?

Question

Watching the Space Shuttle, or jumbo jets takeoff and land, like it's slow mo, is a thing of beauty for me.

Answer 1

Generally, beauty is excellence. So there is beauty in anything if you see it.

Engineering is no exception. Good engineering is a thing to behold and cherish, bad engineering is ... ugly to disastrous.

Answer 2

all engineering (when done correctly) is beauty, in concept, design and execution.  

Answer 3

There is beauty in every thing our Creator has made. I see it in the aircraft I helped to design.

I see it in the mathematical equations I have to solve. I see it in the fantastic bridge some people built. I see it in the flowers and the animals. Someone had to truly love us to surround us with all of this beauty!

Answer 4

Designing a new system and getting it to market is like Nirvana (not the moaning rock group).  It truly is a thing of beauty to go from a blank sheet of paper to a device someone will be using for the next 20 years!

That  is why I am an engineer!

Answer 5

Absolutely!