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Uses math and science to solve different technical problems.
An Engineer or Senior Engineer
Need to have the right skills for performing essential duties and meeting safety and regulatory laws on the job.
Engineer
Design, test, and supervise the manufacture of aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles.
Aerospace engineer
Develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense, guidance, and space exploration.
Aerospace engineer
Solve medical and health related problems by combining their knowledge of biology and medicine with engineering principles and practices.
Biomedical engineer
Apply the principles of chemistry to solve problems involving the production or use of the chemicals and other products.
Chemical engineer
Design and supervise the construction of roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and water supply, and sewage systems.
Civil engineers
One of the oldest engineering
Civil engineering
Research, design, develop, test, and oversee the manufacture and installation of computer hardware.
Computer Hardware Engineers
Design, develop, test and supervise the manufacture of electrical equipment.
Electric al engineer
Specialize in areas such as communication, signal processing, and control systems or have a specialty within one of these areas
Electronics engineers
Design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of the electronic equipment.
Electronic engineers
Use the principles of biology and chemistry to develop solutions to environmental problems.
Environmental engineer
Are concerned with local and worldwide environmental issues
Environmental engineer
They identify and measure potential hazards. They recommend appropriate loss prevention measures according to their probability of harm and potential damage.
Health and safety engineer
Determine the most effective ways to use the basic factors of production—people, machines, materials, information, and energy —to make a product or provide a service.
Industrial engineer
They are concerned primarily with increasing productivity through the management of people, methods of business organization, and technology.
Industrial engineer
Are involved in the design, construction, and maintenance of ship, boats, and related equipment.
Marine engineer and naval architect
Work on the basic design of ships
Naval architect
Work on the propulsion, steering, and other systems of ships.
Marine engineers
Involved in the development, processing, and testing of the materials used to create a range of products.
Materials engineers
Research,design, develop, manufacture, and test tools, engines, machines, and other mechanical devices. Engineers in this discipline work on power machines.
Mechanical engineer
Finds, extracts, and prepares coal, metals, and minerals for use by manufacturing industries and utilities.
Mining and geological engineers
Frequently specialize in the mining of one mineral or metal, such as coal or gold.
Mining engineer