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It would help a lot to start with a definition of the terms
scienceandengineeringbefore talking about the relationship between them.Do you have an example where it would make a difference?
Somewhere in his book Thomas Kuhn equates science as being a field that makes progress in understanding it's problem domain. If someone manages to learn knowledge to build better aqueducts than could be build in the past, he's therefore engaging in science.