Finding uses may be for science, but making it happening is engineering.
If you want to see some awesome engineering, check out the live cams on the berm and/or road construction in Iceland.
Those guys rock.
There is a story aobut a scientist, a physicist, and an engineer.
A trash can catches fire.
The scientist analyzes the flame height and temperature and declares it is on fire.
The physicist analyzes how long the fire might burn.
The engineer pees on it.