BEGINNING OF ENGINEERING and ORIGINS OF ENGINEERING

While needs of society turned into more practical ,technical and advanced,medicine,law and engineering qualified to participate in a university environment.military engineers were the first engineers,worked by government.They concerned about roads,bridges and fortifications.The first schools of engineering were founded in France which had established military
Polytechnic schools to teach engineering

The first school to be taught engineering education in America was US Military Academy at West Point, beginning in 1802 .The first school which taught civil engineering is the Renssealer Polytechnic Instute,which is awarded the first engineering degree in 1835.

The word engineer has its roots in the Latin word ingeniare, which means to devise in the sense of construct, or craftsmanship. Several other words are related to ingeniare, including ingenuity.

REFERANCES:
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/hsseas/history/origin.html