Engineering Disciplines
This type of engineer designs and builds bridges, roads, and tunnels
What is Civil Engineering?
Engineers rely on this subject to balance equations when making fuels and medicines.
Chemistry
These engineers use microscopes and tissue scaffolds to test new implants.
What is Biomedical Engineering?
Mechanical + Biomedical engineers collaborate to design this assistive device that helps people walk.
What is a Prosthetic Leg?
These engineers use differential equations, simulations, and computational models as their main tools
What is Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics?
This discipline works with circuits, power grids, and microchips
Electrical Engineering
Civil engineers use this branch of math to calculate the angles of ramps and the shapes of bridges
What is Geometry?
Distillation columns, reactors, and centrifuges are everyday tools in this discipline.
What is Chemical Engineering?
Applied Math + Industrial Engineering models help airlines reduce this dreaded passenger experience.
What are Flight Delays?
Gantt charts, and simulation software help this discipline optimize processes.
What is Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences?
They improve manufacturing efficiency by studying how people, machines, and systems interact
What is Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences?
Applied math engineers use this branch of math to describe curves, slopes, and rates of change.
What is Calculus?
These engineers use surveying equipment and concrete to construct infrastructure.
What is Civil Engineering?
Computer Science + Electrical engineers made it possible for you to carry the internet in your pocket with this device.
What is a Smartphone?
Electron microscopes, 3D printers, and spectrometers help these engineers study atomic structures.
What is Materials Science and Engineering?
This field designs machines, from engines and robots to HVAC systems.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
Mechanical engineers rely on this area of science to calculate the path of a rocket traveling into space.
What is Physics (Motion/Mechanics)?
Oscilloscopes, microcontrollers, and circuit boards are common in this branch of engineering.
What is Electrical and Computer Engineering?
Biomedical engineers and materials scientists worked together to design this thin, flexible tool to improve vision.
What are Contact Lenses?
CAD software, wind tunnels, and stress-testing machines are staple tools for this discipline.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
These engineers use biology and chemistry to produce fuels, plastics, and medicines.
What is Chemical Engineering?
Biomedical engineers analyze test results from hundreds of patients to figure out whether a new medical device really works. They use this branch of math to make sense of the data.
What is Statistics?
Languages like Python and C++ are common in this discipline
What is Computer Science?
Computer Science + Mechanical engineers joined forces to invent these smart self-driving machines to clean your house.
What is a Robot Vacuum (e.g., Roomba)?
Air pollution sensors and bioreactors are key to this discipline.
What is Environmental Engineering?