Engineers

Engineers can be classified into 11 types, according to the kind of work they doÐ'--construction, consulting, design, development, teaching, planning (also called applications engineers), production, research, sales, service, and test engineers.

They work in laboratories, industrial plants, or construction sites where they inspect, supervise or solve on-site problems; others work in an office most of the time, and a few travel extensively to plants or construction sites. Engineers in branches such as civil engineering may work outdoors part of the time.

Engineers in each branch have knowledge and training that can be applied to many fields, and because there are numerous separate problems to solve in a large engineering project, engineers in one field often work closely with specialists in scientific, other engineering, and business occupations.

Most specialized engineering we know today developed during the last 200 years. Before then, engineering dealt mostly with the construction of roads, bridges, canals, or military structures and devices. As mankind gained more knowledge of science and technology, engineers began to specialize in certain kinds of work.

Specialized engineering fields are numerous and include aerospace Ð'* agricultural Ð'* architectural Ð'* automotive Ð'* biomedical Ð'* ceramic Ð'* chemical Ð'* civil Ð'* computer science Ð'* electrical Ð'* engineering physics Ð'* environmental health and sanitary Ð'* geological Ð'* marine Ð'* mechanical Ð'* metallurgical and materials Ð'* mining Ð'* nuclear Ð'* ocean Ð'* petroleum Ð'* systems Ð'* textile Ð'* and transportation.

I want to be an engineer but I don't know what type yet so in this 10 page report I will describe many different types plus what you need to do to be one.The most popular types of engineering are chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical.

First I'll describe chemical engineering deals with the design, construction, and operation of plants and machines for making things like acids, dyes, drugs, plastics, and synthetic rubber by studying and observing reactions discovered by chemist. In order to be a chemical engineer you have to be good in chemistry and mechanical engineering.

Second, civil engineering involves the planning, designing, construction, and maintenance of buildings and changing geographical features to suit our needs. Some of the fields are transportation (e.g., railroad facilities and highways); hydraulics (e.g., river control, irrigation, swamp draining, water supply, and sewage disposal); and structures (e.g., buildings, bridges, and tunnels).

Third, Electrical engineering includes all aspects of electricity from power engineering, the making of devices for the generation and transmission of electrical power, to electronics. Electronics is a branch of electrical engineering that deals with devices that use electricity for control of actions. Well-liked fields of electronics include computer engineering, microwave engineering, communications, and digital signal processing. It is the engineering area that has grown the most in recent decades.

Fourth, industrial engineering or management engineering, is concerned with efficient production. The industrial engineer designs methods, not machines. Jobs include plant layout, analysis and planning of workers' jobs, economical handling of raw materials, their flow through the production process, and the capable control of the inventory of finished products.

The fifth field of engineering I'll describe is mechanical engineering which is concerned with the design, construction, and operation of power plants, engines, and machines. It deals mostly with things that move. One common way of dividing mechanical engineering is into heat utilization and machine design. The generation, distribution, and use of heat is applied in boilers, heat engines, air conditioning, and refrigeration. The way a machine is designed concerns the hardware used.

Aeronautical engineering is applied in the designing of aircraft and missiles and in directing the technical phases of their manufacture and operation. Mineral engineering includes mining, metallurgical, and petroleum engineering, which are concerned with extracting minerals from the ground and converting them to pure forms. Other important branches of engineering are agricultural engineering, engineering physics, geological engineering, naval architecture and marine engineering, and nuclear engineering.

Another way of dividing engineering is by function. Among the top functional divisions are