What engineer should i be?

Question

ok...i was thinking since im going to be in high school i want to know what types of engineers are there. im interested in anything with energy and gas, solar like that but i want to know how much would an engineer like that make. if u could please give me a BIG list of what kind of engineers are there. thanx

oh could yall also answer this question also if u know;

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Answer 1

If you want to work with energy, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineers are the big ones.

Typically engineering salaries for a bachelors start around 50k a year. However, from time to time certain areas are hotter than others. Right now petroleum engineers can make a killing right out of school (like up to 80-100k), but it usually involves moving someplace in the middle of nowwhere.

My advice is to take your time in school, keep reading up on what fields there are, and choose a good university. Then you can decide what major suits you :)

Peter

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Answer 2

Well, everything in this world that has been made has been engineered.

There are :

-Transportation engineers

-Structural engineers

-Wastewaster engineers

-Hydrology engineers

-Environmental engineers

-Land development engineers

-Software engineers

-Computer engineers

-Industrial engineers

-Chemical engineers

-Pharmacuetical engineers

-Biomedical engineers

-Aerospace engineers

-Aeronautical engineers

-Manufacturing engineers

-Agriculture engineers

-Maritime engineers

-Petroleum engineers

-Automotive engineers

-Electrical engineers

and the list can go on and on....

Average salary depends on experience and level of education, PE registration and whether you work in the public or private sectors... I would look on SALARY.COM -- they tend to give you an overall idea of the salary you would get depending on your region of employment.

Answer 3

In the old days there was only one kind of engineer, who could solve any kind of technical problem. Today engineering is so specialized that there are more than 100 kind and many specialists to each.

However engineers start off by studying general engineering (just like doctors first doing general medicine) and later decide about what they want to be more expert in. I should imagine with your interests in energy and power generation and its use that this is sufficient for you to start on a related course of study without going too deeply into the various possibilities.

Incidentally, I admire your choice. Energy is going to be a big problem in the next 50 years or so and to be an expert in it is to prepare yourself for doing the world a lot of good!

Answer 4

like wat has been said, ur interest of energy engineering particularly renewables can be pursued by the three main areas of engineering, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering. However, it now depends on which side of things interests you the most.

If u like the energy management side of things and to know how much energy is lost/efficiently used, then chemical engineering is for you (energy management takes into account the application of some physical laws, law of conservation of energy). U interested on the mechanical designs of these things (stuff like tensions, materials used) then the obvious answer would be mechanical engineering. And u interested in the electronics/electrical circutory side of things (stuff u studied in physics like logic gates etc) then electrical engineering is for you. By all means, all of these engineering careers leads to you being able to get involved with stuff like designing solar powers and the likes from varying angles.

So you decide which area of physics in particular strikes you the most. As for the $$$ side of things, generally chemical engineers make more (in the UK mostly, and probably other places as well).

Answer 5

If your interested in solving the energy crisis, electrical engineering is quite important. New ideas for creating energy have been explored through out the past century vastly and the major problem now is figuring out how to obtain and store (and USE) this energy in the most energy effective way. Personally I would love to make all of my appliances use their energy without any waste, think of the vast amount of waste that goes into any energy we use. I am an undergrad and this is my plan, the most accurate answers will come from the people actually working on this.