Careers in Engineering
Welcome to a page I have created to help people who are interested in Engineering
to find more information about possible careers they might pursue.
I have tried to collect (with the help of my ENGR196aH class) a set of
interesting and useful links about the various engineering fields.
Although I have tried to be inclusive and relatively comprehensive in creating
this page, I may have overlooked some links that should have been included
or inadvertently misrepresented some information. I'm sorry if things are
not all correct. No endorsement of products, services, companies, or universities
is meant or implied by information that is given below.
If you have suggestions for additions or comments about this page, then
please send me e-mail.
Thanks, Dunbar
P. Birnie, III Professor, Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, UofA.
This page is organized as follows (click to skip forward):
Relevant Engineering and Professional
Societies
Society of Women Engineers
Society
of Women Engineers -- local AZ page
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Society
of Hispanic Professional Engineers -- local AZ page
National Society of Professional Engineers
Mathematics, Engineering,
Science Achievement (MESA)
Minority Engineering
Program
Tau Beta Pi
Tau
Beta Pi - local chapter
American Indian Science & Engineering
Society
National Engineers Week Home Page
American Society of Engineering Education
National Academy of Engineering
A Career Planning Center
for Young Scientists and Engineers -- National Academy of Sciences
sourced
ABET - Accreditation Board for Engineering
and Technology
Grid of links to Professional Societies that are Related to the Specific
Engineering Departments
Aerospace and Mechanical
AIAA
(Aero/Astro)
ASME (Mech.E.)
SAE
(Automotive) |
Chemical and Environmental
AIChE
IChemE |
Civil Eng'ng + Engr. Mechanics
ASCE
(Civil E.) |
Electrical and Computer
IEEE
(electrical)
AES
(audio)
ACM (computing
machinery)
IMAPS
(microelectronics)
SPIE
(for Optical Engr'g)
OSA
(also for Opt. Engr'g) |
Hydrology and Water Resources |
Materials Science and Eng'ng
ACerS
(Ceramics)
MRS (general)
ASM
(metals)
TMS
(metals) |
Mining and Geological
SME
(Mining E.)
GSA
(Gological Society) |
Systems and Industrial
INFORMS
(operations resrch)
IIE
(industr. engrg)
SME (manufacturing
engrg.)
INCOSE
(systems engrg)
QEMA (quality
engrg and mfgrg) |
Agricultural and Biosystems
ASAE |
| Engineering Math |
Engineering Physics |
|
Note that many of these societies see themselves as crossing
departmental boundaries. You should browse through many of them to
get a feeling for what kinds of information they provide and what the different
fields emphasize.
Grid of links to UofA Student Chapters of
various Professional Societies
| Aerospace and Mechanical |
Chemical and Environmental |
Civil Enginering + Engr. Mechanics |
Electrical and Computer
IEEE
Electr.
Eng'rg Honor Society |
Hydrology and Water Resources
HWR
Student Homepage |
Materials Science and Eng'rg
AACG,
(crystal growth)
NICE,
(ceramic engrg)
Keramos
(ceramic honor soc) |
|
Mining and Geological
|
Systems and Industrial |
Agricultural and Biosystems
|
| Engineering Math |
Engineering Physics |
|
Grid of Homepages for Engineering
Departments at UofA
General Information
What
is an Engineer? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
What
do Engineers do? (from web page at Monash University in Australia)
--- many pages like this exist all over the web
What
do Engineers do? (from web page at Texas A&M)
What
is an Engineer? (from UConn)
Engineering
Career Information (from web page at North Carolina State U)
Aerospace and Mechanical
What
is Aerospace Engineering? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
What
is Mechanical Engineering? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
What
is Nuclear Engineering? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Useful
Internet Resources in Aerospace Engineering (page at U. Toronto)
Aerospace
Engineering Resources on the Internet (extensive links -- page at Cornell
U.)
Aerospace
(also extensive pages maintained by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
List
of Colleges and Universities with Aerospace Programs (page at George
Washington U.)
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
What
is Civil Engineering? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
What
is Chemical Engineering? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
What
is Electrical Engineering? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Computer
Engineering Career Information! (NCSU College of Engineering)
Materials Science and Engineering
What
is Materials Engineering? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Mining and Geological
What
is Mining Engineering? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Systems and Industrial
What
is Industrial Engineering? (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
What
is Systems Engineering?
Agricultural and Biosystems
Some
tangential material about Agricultural fields (from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics)
Engineering Math
Engineering Physics
Other Random Stuff
APEGN is an Association
of Professional Engineers and Professional Geoscientists licensed to practice
in Newfoundland under the authority of The Engineers and Geoscientists
Act.
This is the location for Scientific American magazine: http://www.sciam.com
NASA - Materials Science
Division at Kennedy Space Center
NASA - Communications Technology
Division
NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cool NASA database about all sorts of engineering things: WWW
Virtual Engineering Library
A
list of links to Mathematics Related Institutes and Centers --- maintained
by Penn State
Women
Related Science/Technology list of links --- maintained at UMBC
Student
Satellite Project
Government
Web Page Last Updated on 8 December 1997.