What is rural engineering and how does it work?

Question

NO i don't what I'm talking about! STUPID...

Answer 1

do you mean civil engineering? if you do, it might help to retitle your question. if not, I'm sorry but I can't help you.

Answer 2

Engineering for the countryside?

If so its likely to be sub-discipline of civil engineering, and involve things like power/gas supplies to farms/isolated buildings (perhaps using generators for electricity, and gas/oil tanks for heating) I'd also expect some stuff to do with roads, and some stuff to do with land use, like forestry (which presents some quite difficult problems, such as how to get a 30 ton log lorry, half way up a mountain, in the depths of a forest).

Alternatively it may a kind of "cottage industry", where by those living in rural areas use "traditional skills" such as blacksmithing to engineer high value craft products such as wrought iron gates etc. As the goods are relatively small, and high value, they can (usually) afford the high transport costs to get them to the market place. The "can do" attitude of many farmers, when combined with their fairly substantial qualitative (rather than quantitative) knowledge of engineering, and a hefty bit of bodging(which half way between craft, and a science!) is probably what's responsible for many farmers doing well in TV's Scrapheap Challenge.