Engineering is a broad field that offers exciting career opportunities where you’ll get to be creative, solve problems and explore how things work every day. Engineers are involved in all facets of technology, including electronics, medicine, transportation, energy, new materials — anything you can imagine.
Most importantly, engineers address real-world problems. They fix things that are broken, improve those that work and come up with new inventions. Engineers help move the world toward a brighter, more sustainable future by solving problems with pollution, finding ways to harness new energy sources, producing new medicines, and building new structures.
Engineering is the most common undergraduate degree among Fortune 500 CEOs, with 20% claiming an engineering degree. These include Tim Cook (Apple), Satya Nadella (Microsoft) and Mary Barra (General Motors). Below are…