ENGINEERING

Aerospace engineers design, evaluate, and manufacture aircrafts, spacecraft, satellites, missiles, and national defense systems. They usually specialize in either aeronautical engineering (designing aircraft and propulsion systems and analyzing efficiency, safety, and performance of aircraft technologies) or astronautical engineering (working with satellites and spacecrafts’ function inside and outside of Earth’s atmosphere). Aerospace engineers study structural design, thermodynamics, guidance, navigation, and control technologies, robotics, propulsion, and combustion.

Agricultural engineers solve problems related to crop production, pollution, climate, power supply, and safety and use of machinery. Thus, they often work in farming, forestry, and food processing.

Biomedical engineers combine aspects of engineering and medical sciences to develop equipment and software used in healthcare. They often specialize in bioinstrumentation (technologies used for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions), biomaterials (devices and implants), biomechanics, clinical engineering (healthcare delivery), rehabilitation engineering, or systems physiology (study of how living organisms react to changes in environment).

Chemical engineers develop and improve manufacturing processes, create safety guidelines for handling dangerous chemicals, ensure processes and equipment are in agreement with set safety and environmental regulations, and evaluate performance of processes and manufactured products. Their work often involves energy/fuel, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and food.

Civil engineers design and build infrastructure taking into account construction costs, government regulations, potential risks and environmental hazards, site layouts and elevation, and efficiency. Four main types of civil engineers are construction, geotechnical, structural, and transportation engineers.

Electrical engineers design, test, and oversee the manufacturing process for electrical equipment used in aviation, computing, transportation, manufacturing, and communication.

Electronics engineers design and build electronic products and systems as well as software for commercial, industrial, medical, military and government, or scientific uses.

Environmental engineers combine principles of engineering, soil science, biology, and chemistry to solve environmental problems. They work to improve recycling, waste disposal, public health, and air and water pollution control and address global issues like supply of clean drinking water, climate change, acid rain, carbon dioxide emissions, ozone depletion, and environmental sustainability.

Health and safety engineers design and put systems in place to prevent injury or sickness and ensure facilities and equipment comply with set safety regulations. Some health and safety engineers work in fire prevention, product safety, or systems safety.

Industrial engineers work to make processes more efficient and limit waste taking into account production time, work’s safety, available machinery, technology, and supplies and environmental concerns.

Marine engineers design the schematics for, oversee construction of, and test naval technologies like aircraft carriers, submarines, tankers, etc.

Materials engineers focus on the constituent components of a product, rather than its design as a whole. They research and create new materials with which products can be designed.

Mechanical engineers invent and improve devices across a wide range of fields. It is known as a very diverse field of engineering.

Nuclear engineers research ways to utilize radioactive materials, as well as potential applications of nuclear material as power sources.

Petroleum engineers help oil companies strategize where to drill in order to extract oil efficiently. They also help design new equipment and oversee these processes.