- 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 andMechanical Engineering (by number of full-time employees). [ [http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind93/chap3/atab/at30793.xls NSF 1992 data] Accessed 25 July 2007]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 , andengineering 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)
*Biblical engineering
*Biological engineering
*Biological systems engineering
*Biomedical engineering
*Biomaterials engineering
*Bioresource engineering
*Ceramic engineering
*Chemical engineering
*Civil engineering
*Coastal engineering
*Combat engineer ing
*Communications system engineering
*Computer engineering
*Computer science (considered a field of engineering in some countries)
*Construction engineering
*Control engineering (control systems engineering)
*Cost engineering
*Disney Imagineering
*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 engineer ing
*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 References
See also
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List of engineering topics
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