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Are you looking for a diverse and rewarding career that will challenge you, inspire you, provide opportunities to creatively solve problems in a team setting, make the world healthier and safer, and allow you to see the results of your efforts? Then engineering is a career worth exploring (and it's one of the top paying jobs to boot).
What do engineers do?
Engineers are people who use math, science, and technology to design creative solutions to all sorts of problems.
Engineering is all around us... it's hard to find something that engineers haven't helped create. Engineers use math, science, and technology to solve problems every day. For example:
Engineering is all around us... it's hard to find something that engineers haven't helped create. Engineers use math, science, and technology to solve problems every day. For example:
- How to make energy from the sun
- How to keep our water clean
- How to move us from city to city
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Discover and manufacture better plastics, paints, fuels, fibers, medicines, fertilizers, semiconductors, paper, and all other kinds of chemicals, and also play an important role in protecting the environment.
Mary Frances
Jenifer: upstream oil and gas engineering in the arctic—and enjoying all the outdoor recreation that comes with it
Mary Frances: putting engineering ingenuity to the test to help clients improve sustainability -
Design and build the infrastructure that make up our world: highways, skyscrapers, railways, bridges, and water reservoirs.
Brigit
Brigit: designing systems to make our water supplies safer
Brittany: natural curiosity encouraged by mom leads to engineering career
Zac: living out the slogan on his father’s t-shirt, “Civil Engineers – We Build and Maintain the World”
Debbie: manages people and projects related to remediation, global warming, and industrial wastewater
Felipe: following in the engineering footsteps of his family -
At the forefront of technology innovation, design, electrical engineers work in the areas such as power generation systems, telecommunications, and consumer electronic industries, but also wok in the aerospace, medical, and semiconductor fields.
Matt
Brian: installing car stereos in high school sparks passion for engineering
Evan: math teacher gets engineering degree to design electric and power systems
Matt: diverse work experiences from prisons in Georgia to nuclear power plants in Texas and mega power project in Australia -
Protecting people and the environment by finding ways of cleaning up our oceans, rivers, and drinking water, developing air pollution equipment, designing more effective recycling systems, or discovering safe ways to dispose of toxic waste.
Zac
Melissa: appreciation for her native environment in Costa Rica led to a career in environmental engineering
Brigit: designing systems to make our water supplies safer
Mary Frances: putting engineering ingenuity to the test to help clients improve sustainability
Zac: living out the slogan on his father’s t-shirt, “Civil Engineers – We Build and Maintain the World”
Debbie: manages people and projects related to remediation, global warming, and industrial wastewater -
Determine the most effective ways to use people, machines, materials, information, and energy to make a product or to provide a service.
Hillary
Hillary: helping advanced technology companies design more efficient manufacturing facilities -
Often referred to as the general practitioners of the engineering profession, mechanical engineers are responsible for virtually everything you use during the day.
Anders
Edwin: mechanical engineering career inspired at 10 years old by dismantling a bike
Anders: using engineering to get natural resources out of the ground and transported where they are needed -
Focus on the design, operation, control, and optimization of chemical, physical, and biological processes through the aid of systematic computer-based methods.
Jenifer
Jenifer: upstream oil and gas engineering in the arctic—and enjoying all the outdoor recreation that comes with it -
A branch of civil engineering, focused on analyzing and designing buildings and other structures.
Garrick
Garrick: turning his passion for LEGOs to engineering cereal manufacturing plants
What kinds of engineers are there?
There are lots of different engineering specialties each focused on improving a different part of society:
If you love the outdoors, try environmental engineering or surveying engineering.
If you love Legos, explore structural or civil engineering-or robotics.
Have a passion for architecture and design? Consider architecture or civil engineering.
Want to help people in 3rd world countries? Environmental engineering, telecommunication, or electrical engineering may be right for you.
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If you love the outdoors, try environmental engineering or surveying engineering.
If you love Legos, explore structural or civil engineering-or robotics.
Have a passion for architecture and design? Consider architecture or civil engineering.
Want to help people in 3rd world countries? Environmental engineering, telecommunication, or electrical engineering may be right for you.
"Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it creates homes and jobs, elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer’s high privilege."
- Herbert Hoover, 31st President
How do you become an engineer?
Anyone can become an engineer if they have the desire to use problem-solving skills to make a difference in the world and the motivation to study hard. Start preparing for an engineering career by taking classes in:
Ask your teacher or guidance counselor about math and science programs and contests available at your school.
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Could I be an engineer?
Do you like to:
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What do engineers at CH2M HILL do?
- Clean up and protect the environment
- Design and build roads, bridges, airports, ports, and rail systems
- Provide clean water
- Design and build factories
- Provide energy and power
- Enable communication
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