ABSTRACT
Engineer utilise principles of science and mathematics to develop certain technologies. These technologies are then used to create engineered artifacts such as products, structures, machines, processes or entire systems. When an engineer creates an artifact in any area of application, he has to employ a host of related activities like planning, conceptual design, analysis, detailing, drafting, construction, manufacturing and maintenance. Numerical computing-intensive tasks were the early applications attempted to be solved with the aid of computers in the early days of computer usage by the engineering community. Research in the areas of computer graphics, database management systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI) along with the development of faster and more powerful hardware platforms accelerated and widened the use of computers for engineering problem solving. Database Management Systems (DBMS) provided engineers with necessary tools for handling and manipulating the large amount of data generated during processing in a systematic and efficient manner.
