Supervisor vs. Engineer

Supervisornoun

(management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.

Supervisornoun

A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.

Supervisornoun

(US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.

Supervisornoun

(computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.

Supervisornoun

One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.

Supervisornoun

A spectator; a looker-on.

Supervisornoun

one who supervises or has charge and direction of

Supervisornoun

a program that controls the execution of other programs

Supervisornoun

a person who supervises a person or an activity.

Supervisornoun

a person who directs and oversees the work of a postgraduate research student.

Supervisor

A supervisor, or also known as foreman, boss, overseer, facilitator, monitor, area coordinator, or sometimes gaffer, is the job title of a low level management position that is primarily based on authority over a worker or charge of a workplace. A supervisor can also be one of the most senior in the staff at the place of work, such as a Professor who oversees a PhD dissertation.

Engineernoun

A person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering.

Engineernoun

(Philippines) A title given to an engineer.

Engineernoun

A person who controls motion of substance (such as a locomotive). Rail transportation

Engineernoun

(nautical) A person employed in the engine room of a ship.

Engineerverb

(transitive) To design, construct or manage something as an engineer.

Engineerverb

(transitive) To alter or construct something by means of genetic engineering.

Engineerverb

(transitive) To plan or achieve some goal by contrivance or guile; to wangle or finagle.

Engineerverb

(transitive) To control motion of substance; to change motion.

Engineerverb

To work as an engineer.

Engineernoun

A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering; as, a civil engineer; an electronic engineer; a chemical engineer. See under Engineering, n.

Engineernoun

One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

Engineernoun

One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

Engineerverb

To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

Engineerverb

To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

Engineernoun

a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

Engineernoun

the operator of a railway locomotive

Engineerverb

design as an engineer;

Engineerverb

plan and direct (a complex undertaking);

Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost. The word engineer (Latin ingeniator) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare () and ingenium ().