Career Description
This is an ideal career for analytical thinkers. Engineers invent, create and build the world around us. As an engineer you use natural and man-made chemicals and materials to make the things we use every day. It is a huge and diverse career sector with a variety of employment opportunities. You design and build roads, buildings, cars, planes, tunnels, or dams. You can work on solving problems in the medical area by creating artificial limbs or heart valves. Even everyday products such as computers and sports equipment have had an engineer work on them at some stage in their design or manufacture.
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You can work on solving problems in the medical area by creating artificial limbs or heart valves. Even everyday products such as computers and sports equipment have had an engineer work on them at some stage in their design or manufacture.
Aerospace Engineering is involved with modern flight technology. It addresses the design, construction and science of flight dynamics, aircraft structures and digital control systems. Various technologies are used including aerodynamics, avionics, materials science and propulsion. You can work on aeronautical engineering (aircraft that stay within the earth’s atmosphere) or astronautical engineering (craft that operate outside of the earth's atmosphere).
Agricultural Engineers usually cover the spectrum of engineering science in an agricultural environment. You may cross over with civil engineers on irrigation, drainage and water control systems, structural engineers on specialist building and storage facilities or mechanical engineers in the design of machinery and equipment that is used specifically on farms. However your real value is finding ways to improve the environment by conserving soil and water and improving the processes that take the produce from the farm gate through manufacture to the consumer including supervision of ground preparation, crop management and post harvest processing and transport.
Biomedical Engineers work in the medical field. You use your problem solving skills together with other medical personnel to improve the quality of life of patients. Artificial implants and hearing devices were designed by biomedical engineers.
Biomechanical Engineers focus on how engineering can be applied to the human body. Understanding the mechanics of how we walk and run sit and stand, and bend and flex is critical to designing products that feel comfortable, provide safety and enhance human performance. Backpacks, child safety car seats and running shoes are just some of the products that biomechanical engineers design and test.
Chemical Engineers work in manufacturing plants and focus on the conversion of raw materials into everyday products used in home, industry and commerce. This field of engineering has great scope for specialization. It ranges from petroleum production of oil, natural gas and LPG, to petrochemicals converting oil and gas into plastics and synthetic rubber and chemicals in agriculture for fertilsers, herbicides and pesticides. You can focus on the pharmaceuticals; food and beverage sector or have an environmental preference with water, waste treatment and recycling. Irrespective you could be designing equipment and processes that impact just about on every person and every part of our lives.
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Careernav have written this career profile in consultion with senior industry representatives and industry associations who for reasons of conflict of interest cannot be named. Careernav have also reviewed information available from the public domain and drawn upon their combined 27 years experience in executive recruitment. This profile is a true representation of the career.
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