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This article looks at differences in how models are used in engineering projects, which create new things and processes, compared to science projects, which model existing things and processes.
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People sometimes misunderstand a model because they think it is being used in one way where in fact it is used in the other way.
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I have worked as an engineer for more than 40 years, and it is profoundly embarrassing to me that it took me this long to arrive at this insight.
Edward Lee
University of California at Berkeley
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This page is a summary of: Modeling in engineering and science, Communications of the ACM, December 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3231590.
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