What is engineering and what are the best engineering majors?

Engineering is the application of science and mathematics to find solutions and solve problems.
Engineers discover how to make things and find practical uses for scientific discoveries.
Scientists and inventors get the credit for their innovations that advance humankind
But without the engineers, these innovations would not have been implemented and became available.
Physicist Freeman Dyson wrote, in his book "Disturbing the Universe"

A good scientist is someone who has original ideas and a good engineer is someone who creates a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.

Engineers today don't build massive structures like the International Space Station

Rather, they're also creating maps of the human genome and designing microcomputer chips, and this is driving humanity to incredible scientific progress.

Engineering is one of the most important pillars of science and it is an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to motivate students to learn science, technology, and mathematics.

What are the tasks that the engineer performs?

Engineers design, develop, test, modify, install, check and maintain a wide range of products and systems.

They also define materials and processes, oversee manufacturing, construction, and provide consulting services.

Engineering is divided into a large number of specialized fields, namely:

Mechanical Engineering: Mechanical engineering includes the design, manufacture and maintenance of machinery, equipment, components, control systems and tools. Mechanical engineers inspect equipment and evaluate its performance such as construction machinery, agricultural machinery, industrial plants, and a wide range of tools and devices.

Electrical Engineering: Electrical engineering includes the design, testing, manufacture, control, monitoring and inspection of electrical and electronic devices, machines, and systems. These systems vary in size range from microscopic circuits to national power generation and transmission systems.

Civil Engineering: Civil engineering includes the design, construction, maintenance and inspection of large infrastructure projects such as highways, railways, bridges, tunnels, dams, and airports.

Aeronautical engineering: Aeronautical engineering includes the design, manufacture, and testing of aircraft and spacecraft, securing spare parts, and inspecting structural components such as airframes, power plants, control systems, electrical and electronic systems, communication and navigation systems.

Nuclear Engineering: Nuclear engineering includes the design, manufacture, operation, and testing of equipment, systems, and processes that involve the production, monitoring, and detection of nuclear radiation. These systems include particle accelerators and nuclear reactors for electric power plants and ships, and nuclear engineering also includes monitoring and protecting humans from the harmful effects of radiation.

Structural engineering: Structural engineering includes the design, construction and inspection of mega structures such as bridges, mega skyscrapers, and industrial infrastructure.

Biomedical Engineering: Medical engineering includes designing systems, equipment, and devices for use in medicine, and a medical engineer also involves working alongside medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, technicians, medical therapists, and researchers, in order to define, understand and meet their requirements for systems, equipment, and devices.

Chemical Engineering: Chemical engineering includes designing the equipment, systems, and processes needed to refine raw materials and to mix, thicken, and process chemicals to make products.

Computer Engineering: Computer engineering includes the process of designing computer hardware components such as systems, networks, and programs.

Industrial Engineering: Industrial engineering includes the process of designing and improving equipment, systems, and processes for manufacturing and material handling.

Environmental engineering: Environmental engineering includes preventing, reducing and eliminating sources of pollution that affect air, water and land. The work of the environmental engineer also involves detecting and measuring pollution levels, identifying sources of pollution, cleaning and rehabilitating contaminated sites, and ensuring compliance with local and international regulations.

What is the relationship of engineering majors with each other?

There is often great overlap between the various engineering disciplines

That is why engineers need a general understanding of the many fields of engineering with their engineering major

For example, a civil engineer needs to understand the concepts of structural engineering 

An aerospace engineer needs to apply the principles of  mechanical engineering, and nuclear engineers need a great electrical engineering working knowledge.

In particular, engineers are required to have an in-depth knowledge of mathematics, physics, and computer applications such as simulation and computer-aided design.

This is the reason why most College of Engineering programs include a wide range of core subjects before students enter a particular discipline.

Engineers jobs and salaries

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Engineering has matured and expanded throughout the ages along with our knowledge and understanding of science, mathematics, and the laws of physics and their applications.

Today, engineers apply solid scientific principles that lead to the latest innovations

For the design, construction, improvement, development, operation and maintenance of complex devices, structures, systems and processes.

Engineering is what took us out of the caves and it is the one that took us to the moon, and if we ever get to the stars, it will be all thanks to engineering.

As novelist James Michener said in his novel Space (Fawcett, 1983), “Scientists dream of doing great things. Engineers do it. ”