What is difference between Research & Engineering?

Question

Are all the researchers are engineers or all engineers are researchers if not the what is the difference?

Answer 1

Research is often described as an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry aimed at discovering, interpreting, and revising facts.
This intellectual investigation produces a greater knowledge of events, behaviors, theories, and laws and makes practical applications possible.
Research has as its primary objective the advancement of knowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research

Engineering is the application of scientific or mathematical principles to develop economical solutions to technical problems, creating products, facilities, and structures that are useful to people.
Engineers use imagination, judgement, and reasoning to apply science, technology, mathematics, and practical experience. The result is the design, production, and operation of useful objects or processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering

Basically research is just that, investigating an idea.
Engineering is making the idea work.

Answer 2

There is very little overlap, although it is possible for a researcher to be an engineer and for an engineer to be a researcher. According to my old Webster's dictionary, the definition of a researcher is "one who engages in diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth." That is pretty far from the definition of engineering, which is pretty long, but which basically says it is the art of building and using engines, along with roads, bridges, drainage systems, harbors, etc. In other words, researchers study things to try to determine the truth, while engineers design and build things. There are engineering researchers, mostly those who work in universities, but there are also historical researchers, medical researchers, and researchers in just about every other field.

Answer 3

Not all researchers are engineers.

Not all engineers are researchers.

The two are linked only indirectly.

A researcher researches stuff. The engineer takes the stuff the researcher found, and tries to make it work.