What Is Engineering
What Is Engineering
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What is Engineering?
What is Engineering?
Salary Comparisons
• Engineering is a HIGHLY regarded and relatively HIGHLY compensated career. Engineers
make GREAT salaries relative to the amount of schooling required and the LIFESTYLE offered.
• Engineers have high earning potentials over the course of their career.
• Since 1998, engineering salaries have increased by ~55%.
What is Engineering?
Engineering Disciplines
MAJOR DISCIPLINES:
• Mechanical Engineering • Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering • Industrial Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
OTHER DISCIPLINES :
• Automotive Engineering • Environmental Engineering
• Aerospace Engineering • Materials Engineering
• Agricultural Engineering • Nuclear Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering • Robotics Engineering
• Computer Engineering • Safety Engineering
What is Engineering?
Mechanical Engineering
• Perhaps the broadest of all the engineering disciplines in
its range of activities
• Concerned with design, manufacture & operation of a wide
range of components, devices, or systems:
- microscopic parts (nanotechnology) to gigantic gears
- heating, ventilation, refrigeration
- manufacturing equipment (tanks, motors, pumps)
- laser technology
- biomedical applications
- automotive industry
- computer-aided design, automation, robotics
What is Engineering?
Chemical Engineering
Applying chemistry to the solution of practical problems
What is Engineering?
Civil Engineering
Design solutions to cope with many of our planet’s most
serious problems
- air quality issues
- decaying cities, roadways and bridges
- clogged airports and highways
- polluted streams, rivers and lakes
What is Engineering?
Industrial Engineering
Stresses design, improvement, & installation of integrated
systems of people, material, and equipment for the effective
production of goods or services in all types of industries
• Design data processing systems
• Integrate activities of finance, engineering and management
• Develop systems for planning, cost analysis, production and
quality of products
What is Engineering?
Good Traits for Engineers
• Enjoy solving problems
• Like working with other people (strong teamwork skills)
• Interested in serving human needs
• Want to make things work better
• Strive for continual improvement
• Able to adapt to a changing environment
• Good communication skills
• Strong study skills and desire to constantly learn new things
• Data analysis skills
• Strong computer skills
What is Engineering?
College Entrance Requirements
• Algebra I & II • Geometry
• Trigonometry • Calculus
• Biology • Chemistry
• Physics • English
• Social Studies • Foreign Languages
• Fine Arts/Humanities • Computer Programming
• AP Chemistry • AP Physics
• AP Calculus • AP Biology
ANY Advanced Placement classes REALLY help prepare you for
college and in most cases drastically help “lighten your load”.
You don’t have to be a genius with the top grades to make it through
engineering school, YOU JUST HAVE TO BE WILLING TO WORK HARD!
What is Engineering?
College Advice
The next 2-3 years in high school and especially the following 4-8 years
in college DRASTICALLY IMPACT the quality of your adult life!!!
What is Engineering?
Cooperative Education
• Typically a 5-year program with alternating periods of book learning
(school) and application (work, typically in industry).
• Benefits
- Pay for your college education ($36,000/YR or more)
- Gain valuable experience, real engineering work
- Increase your market value at graduation (considerably)
- Usually assures job offer from co-op company
- Offers well deserved and beneficial break from school!
What is Engineering?
Summary
• Engineers have been involved in almost everything you see,
touch, or rely upon
• Engineering can be an exciting career full of opportunities
• Job market is generally good
• Pay and benefits are among the top for the level of education
• Opportunities for leadership, global travel, and benefiting
humankind abound
• An engineering degree can open many doors to careers
in other exciting areas
+ Medicine (physician, surgeon, research)
+ Business administration
+ Law
+ PhD (research, teaching, consulting)
What is Engineering?