Careers
engineering, profession devoted to designing, constructing, and operating the
structures, machines, and other devices of industry and everyday life.
Types of Engineering
1. Aeronautical Engineering :
Work with one of the most technologically advanced branches of engineering. The
aeronautical engineers are concerned with the design and construction, testing and
operation as well as maintenance of aircraft and aircraft components.
The main thrust in this area is on design and development, which extends even
to space and satellite research. It is an exciting field with scope for growth and job
satisfaction. An aeronautical engineer needs to be physically fit and fully dedicated to
his work.
2.Agricultural Engineering
Applies engineering principles to all activities related to agriculture and horticulture.
Improvement in agricultural farm machinery, farm structures, rural electrification,
biogas, new technologies in the design and manufacture of agricultural products and
also conservation of soil and water, are some of the jobs handled by an agricultural
engineer.
3.Automobile Engineering
Concerned with the design, planning and manufacture as well as the repair,
maintenance and up gradation of moving vehicles such as cars, trucks, motorcycles,
scooters, etc. The automobile engineer looks into the upkeep of vehicles to ensure
their proper, efficient and economical running.
4.Chemical engineering deals with the design, construction, and operation of
plants and machinery for making such products as acids, dyes, drugs, plastics,
and synthetic rubber by adapting the chemical reactions discovered by the
laboratory chemist to large-scale production.The chemical engineer must be familiar
with both chemistry and mechanical engineering.
5.Civil engineering includes the planning, designing, construction, and
maintenance of structures and altering geography to suit human needs. Some of the
numerous subdivisions are transportation (e.g., railroad facilities and highways);
hydraulics (e.g., river control, irrigation, swamp draining, water supply, and sewage
disposal); and structures (e.g., buildings, bridges, and tunnels).
6. Computer Engineering Computer Engineers Work with one of the most
important office automation products- computers-in an expanding technological field.
Computer engineers design the computer and its control systems (the hardware) and
also develop computer software (the computer programmes). They are constantly
engaged in improving the end product and building state-of the-art equipment-super
computers, multimedia machines, graphic terminals, laser and inkjet printers,
pentium based machines, etc.
7.Electrical engineering encompasses all aspects of electricity from power
engineering, the development of the devices for the generation and transmission of
electrical power, to electronics. Electronics is a branch of electrical engineering that
deals with devices that use electricity for control of processes. Sub specialties of
electronics include computer engineering, microwave engineering, communications,
and digital signal processing. It is the engineering specialty that has grown the most
in recent decades.
8.Industrial engineering, or management engineering, is concerned with efficient
production. The industrial engineer designs methods, not machinery. Jobs include
plant layout, analysis and planning of workers' jobs, economical handling of raw
materials, their flow through the production process, and the efficient control of the
inventory of finished products.
9.Mechanical engineering is concerned with the design, construction, and
operation of power plants, engines, and machines. It deals mostly with things that
move. One common way of dividing mechanical engineering is into heat utilization
and machine design. The generation, distribution, and use of heat is applied in
boilers, heat engines, air conditioning, and refrigeration. Machine design is
concerned with hardware, including that making use of heat processes.
10.Mining Engineers are responsible for locating natural reserves of minerals,
petroleum and other useful natural substances, and then to lay out plans, devices
shafts, inclines or quarries for the safe extraction of these resources, whether they
be coal, petroleum, metallic or non-metallic minerals, from under the earth. The
safety measures needed to be taken have to be carefully chalked out, keeping in
mind the workers health, welfare and safety.
11.Marine Engineering Ship Operation Technology and other applied subjects
(Maritime Commerce, Marine Engineering, Environmental Science, Control Systems
etc.) are also focused upon. The training programmes help the candidates to
inculcate qualities necessary for the profession, both mental and physical. Practicals
that are conducted are in the following subjects - Astronomy, Chart Work, Practical
Navigation, Magnetic and Gyro Compasses, Electronic Navigational Aids (Radar,
Decca, and Satellite Navigator etc.).
12.Instrumentation Engineering Instrumentation Engineers are responsible for
the design, construction and maintenance of instruments and entire instrumentation
systems considered being the eyes and ears of any industrial undertaking. The type
of instruments needed for ensuring better quality and efficiency of the end product
are decided by an instrumentation engineer.
13.Telecommunication Engineering
Telecommunication Engineers are concerned with establishing communication by
means of telephones, telegraphs, radar, radio, radio navigational aids, TV, and
teleprinters. Important towns, cities, trade centers, harbors and ports are connected
with underground cables or radio links. Countries and continents are brought closer
by means of fast-emanating, information-carrying communication networks. All this
has been made possible by the telecommunication engineer.
Telecommunication engineers deal with line and wireless communication, or radio
communication. Line communication is handled by telephone/telegraph engineers.
The work comprises the installation, supervision, and maintenance of telephone
exchanges and telephone lines.
Eligibility: 10 + 2 Science; high percentage of marks in Science subjects and
qualifying exam (JEE)
In the State of Andhra Pradesh The selection to engineering colleges is
on the basis of the RANK obtained in EAMCET conducted by Department of
technical education