Science vs. Engineering

Re:Science vs. Engineering by adwn on Monday July 13, 2015 @04:52AM (#9877033)

Could someone parse the following heading for me, please?

"Trendy teaching as confusing science for engineering"

(I'm not a native English speaker)

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Re:Science vs. Engineering by ansgri on Monday July 13, 2015 @05:28AM (#9877110)

It means teaching according to the latest (scientific) trends/discoveries as opposed to teaching what provably works.

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Re:Science vs. Engineering by iamcurious on Monday July 13, 2015 @12:00PM (#9878933)

"(Trendy teaching) as (confusing (science) for (engineering))"

Better?

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Re:Science vs. Engineering by throwaway999666 on Monday July 13, 2015 @06:33AM (#9877259)

> parse

The quote consists of seven words, where a word in this context is a lexical unit that consists of alphanumeric characters, and the words are separated by some kind of whitespace.

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