Fields of engineering
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Engineering is a collective term to describe the application of scientific theory in the design, creation, and maintenance of technology. According to 1992 NSF data, the largest fields of engineering are Civil, Electrical / Electronic, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering (by number of full-time employees).[1]
[edit] List of fields
The following is a list of, and links to, articles on the various engineering subdisciplines. General information can be found in the engineering, engineer, and engineering society articles. Alternative names and sub-fields are in parentheses.
- Acoustical engineering
- Aquatic and environmental engineering
- Aerospace (Aeronautical) engineering
- Agricultural engineering
- Architectural engineering
- Automotive engineering (automotive systems engineering)
- Biological engineering
- Biological systems engineering
- Biomedical engineering
- Biomaterials engineering
- Bioresource engineering
- Ceramic engineering
- Chemical engineering
- Civil engineering
- Coastal engineering
- Combat engineering
- Communications system engineering
- Computer engineering
- Computer science (considered a field of engineering in some countries)
- Construction engineering
- Control engineering (control systems engineering)
- Cost engineering
- Ecological engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Electronics engineering (includes microelectronics engineering, microelectronics and semiconductor engineering)
- Electromechanical engineering
- Engineering science and mechanics
- Engineering physics (engineering science)
- Environmental engineering
- Computational finance (financial engineering)
- Fire protection engineering
- Food engineering
- Forensic engineering
- Forest engineering
- Genetic engineering
- Geomatics engineering
- Geotechnical engineering
- Hydraulic engineering
- Industrial engineering (includes production engineering)
- Information engineering
- Instrumentation engineering
- Integrated engineering
- Industrial engineering
- Landscape engineering (landscape architecture)
- Marine engineering
- Materials engineering (includes metallurgical engineering)
- Mechanical engineering
- Manufacturing engineering
- Mechatronics
- Microsystems engineering
- Military engineering
- Minerals process engineering
- Mineral engineering
- Mining engineering
- Nanoengineering
- Neural engineering
- Naval architecture
- Nuclear engineering
- Optical engineering
- Ocean engineering
- Packaging engineering
- Paper engineering
- Photovoltaics engineering
- Petroleum engineering
- Plastics engineering
- Polymer engineering
- Power engineering
- Process engineering
- Quality engineering (quality assurance engineering)
- Reliability engineering
- Safety engineering
- Sanitation engineering
- Security engineering
- Sewage engineering
- Software engineering
- Structural engineering
- Surveying
- Systems engineering (systems design engineering)
- Thermodynamic engineering
- Tissue engineering
- Traffic engineering
- Transportation engineering (transport engineering)
- Vacuum engineering
- Value engineering
- Textile engineering
[edit] References
- ^ NSF 1992 data Accessed 25 July 2007
