FIELDS OF ENGINEERING

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]

Contents

List of fields

See also

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

★ Audio engineering

★ Automotive engineering (automotive systems engineering)

★ Behavioral engineering

★ Biological 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)

★ 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 process engineering

★ Forensic engineering

★ Forest engineering

★ Genetic engineering

★ Geomatics engineering

★ Geotechnical engineering

★ Industrial engineering (includes production engineering)

★ Information engineering

★ Instrumentation engineering

★ Integrated engineering

★ Industrial engineering (includes manufacturing engineering)

★ Landscape engineering (landscape architecture)

★ Marine engineering

★ Materials engineering (includes metallurgical engineering)

★ Mechanical 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

★ Power engineering

★ Process engineering

★ Quality engineering (quality assurance engineering)

★ Reliability engineering

★ Safety engineering

★ Security engineering

★ Sewage engineering

★ Software engineering

★ Structural engineering

★ Surveying

★ Systems engineering (systems design engineering)

★ Tissue engineering

★ Traffic engineering

★ Transportation engineering (transport engineering)

★ Vacuum engineering

★ Value engineering

★ Textile engineering
Biological Systems Engineering

See also

List of engineering topics