Top 10 Engineering Careers

Can you tell me about the career of an Engineer in India as I want to want to know it before taking up the course at Under Graduate and later at Post Graduate level?

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Engineering is a vast and dynamic field that offers infinite specialization. All fields in the modern economy have been invigorated by engineering technology.

With the rapid advancement of technology many new fields are gaining prominence and new branches are developing such as Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Nanotechnology, Molecular engineering, Mechatronics etc.

The new branches sometimes combine with the traditional fields and form new branches such as Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering.

These new branches are more specialized sub disciplines, each with a more specific emphasis on certain fields of application and particular areas of technology.

Emergence of departments and programs for new branches in major universities is an indicator of new branches of engineering.

Most of fields overlap considerably, especially in the areas of the application of sciences to their disciplines such as physics, chemistry and mathematics.

Some of the various trade options available to budding engineers are:-

1. Aerospace Engineer
2. Agricultural Engineer
3. Automobile Engineer
4. Biomedical Engineer
5. Chemical Engineer
6. Civil Engineer
7. Computer Hardware Engineer
8. Electrical Engineer
9. Electronics Engineer
10. Environmental Engineer
11. Industrial Engineer
12. Industrial Engineer
13. Marine Engineer
14. Materials Engineer
15. Mechanical Engineer
16. Mining and Geological Engineer
17. Nuclear Engineer
18. Petroleum Engineer
19. Production Engineer
20. Software Engineer.

Engineer Career Prospects

Junior Engineer (Starter) – Diploma Engineer

Assistant Engineer-(Direct) - Degree Holder

Sub Divisional Engineer

Assistant Executive Engineer

Executive Engineer

Superintending Engineer

Chief Engineer