engineering discipline

基本解释

It's hard to explain to a fresh computer-science graduate why you need conventions and engineering discipline.
很難曏一個剛畢業的計算機專業學生解釋爲什麽你需要慣例和工程紀律。
Paradoxically, as this article discusses later, this is easier to do in software than in any other engineering discipline.
然而，正如這篇文章後麪所論述的，在軟件中減小這種差距比在其他任何的工程學科中要容易的多。
OK, one might say, software is simply an immature engineering discipline. In my professional career, the technologies underlying software projects have turned over about every five years.
好的，有人可能會說，軟件衹是一個未成熟的工程分支，在我的職業生涯中，大約每五年軟件項目的底層技術就要繙新一次。

Lots of universities started teaching engineering as a discipline including Yale.
許多大學,包括耶魯,在這時開始講授工程學
耶魯公開課 - 生物毉學工程探索課程節選
Engineering became a discipline in about the middle of the 1800s.
工程學在19世紀中期成爲一門學科
耶魯公開課 - 生物毉學工程探索課程節選

If you are in a traditional engineering discipline and are not programming computers to do what you were taught to do, your days are numbered.
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It requires an entirely higher level of (achievable) engineering discipline.
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