Beginning a Career in Engineering
If one wishes to become an engineer, then there are a vast number of options to choose from. Civil and mechanical engineering are the two oldest forms of engineering that have been there for more than 100 years. Civil engineering deals with planning and execution work involved in the construction of roads, bridges and other important public utility structures such as subways and flyovers. Building of housing projects and commercial structures also come under the purview of civil engineering.
If one wishes to be a civil engineer, they need to be strong in math and science in their high school. They should have obtained excellent grades in both math and science to gain entry into an engineering course. To become a mechanical engineer, again one has to be strong in math and science and should have secured excellent grades in their high school examinations.
In the mechanical engineering field of study, one will learn more about the manufacturing processes like welding, foundry and other machine related processes.
One will also dwell deep into the study of automobile engineering.
With the rapid advancement of telecommunication satellites in the last 50 years, electronics and communication engineering has made rapid strides in the last 50 years. Greater numbers of students have opted for this stream in the last 20 odd years than other traditional courses.
One Engineering stream which gives tough competition to electronics and communication engineering for candidates is computer science. Particularly in the last 30 years there has been a terrific boom in jobs related to computer science and information technology.
If one wants to be a computer scientist they need to be strong in math and computer science and should have secured good grades in their high school exams. In computer science there are again a number of branches such as embedded programming, back-end processing, and transaction processing among others. Then there are other forms of engineering subjects such as instrumentation, electrical, metallurgical and mining which also have good job prospects in the job market.
In order to get a good placement, one has to enter a top-rated engineering institution, which has a very good track of placing students in top-ranked companies in that particular engineering branch of study. Though one has to secure good grades in high school and also sometimes clear the qualifying examination to be admitted to these top-rated engineering colleges, it is worth putting in the required effort to get the admission. Not only from the placement of view, but also from the infrastructure point of view – as top-rated colleges usually have very good infrastructure and equipment required to train students.
Louisa Coan is writing on behave of Mane. Mane is one of the UK’s leading technical recruitment consultancies and is a specialist engineering agency. They also offer Find Aerospace Jobs online and Rail Jobs