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 and Mechanical Engineering (by number of full-time employees).

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, and engineering 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)
• Biological engineering
• Biological systems engineering
• Biomedical engineering
• Biomaterials engineering
• Bioresource engineering
• Ceramic Technology
• Chemical engineering
• Civil engineering
• Coastal engineering
• Combat engineering
• Communications system engineering
• Computer engineering
• Construction engineering
• Control engineering (control systems engineering)
• Cost engineering
• Earthquake engineering
• 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 Technology
• Forensic engineering
• Forest Technology
• Genetic engineering
• Geomatics engineering
• Geotechnical engineering
• Hydraulic engineering
• Industrial engineering (includes production engineering)
• Information engineering
• Instrumentation engineering
• Integrated engineering
• Landscape engineering (landscape architecture)
• Leather technology
• Marine engineering
• Materials engineering (includes metallurgical engineering)
• Mechanical engineering
• Manufacturing engineering
• Mechatronics
• Microsystems engineering
• Military engineering
• Minerals process engineering
• Mineral engineering
• Mining engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Neural engineering
• Ocean engineering
• Optical engineering
• Packaging technology
• Paper technology
• Photovoltaics engineering
• Petroleum engineering
• Plastics engineering
• Polymer engineering
• Power engineering
• Process engineering
• Quality engineering (quality assurance engineering)
• Reliability engineering
• Safety engineering
• Sales process engineering
• Sanitation engineering
• Security engineering
• Sewage engineering
• Software engineering
• Structural engineering
• Surveying
• Systems engineering (systems design engineering)
• Textile engineering
• Thermodynamic engineering
• Timber engineering
• Tissue engineering
• Traffic engineering
• Transportation engineering (transport engineering)
• Vacuum engineering
• Value engineering

See also

• List of engineering topics