Engineering
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Engineering is the use of science and technology to design or make things. Engineers usually design or build things that are sold or given to people. There are different types of engineers that design things such as roads, factories, medicines computers, computer programs, trains, space vehicles, airplanes, and robots. People who do engineering are called engineers. They learn to do engineering by studying at a university.
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[edit] What is it?
Engineering is a big discipline, and it has many sub-disciplines. Following are a few of the many types of engineers:
- Civil engineers work on things like roads, bridges, and buildings.
- Chemical engineers use chemicals to make things like drugs and medicines or fertilizers for crops.
- Electrical engineers work with things involving electricity, from small things like radios and computers to large things like the wires that carry electricity across the country.
- Mechanical engineers design machines or things that move, like cars and trains. A mechanical engineer also might help design electricity generating stations, oil refineries, and factories.
- Software engineers design and write programs for computers.
- Aerospace engineers design space vehicles or airplanes.
- Manufacturing engineers design and improve the machines and assembly lines that make things. They work with robots, hydraulics and air-operated devices to help companies work faster and better with fewer mistakes.
[edit] Study
Most engineers go to a university to get an engineering degree.
[edit] American Courses
In the United States, most engineers go to a college or university to get an engineering degree. Most people go to school for four years to get a Bachelor's degree in engineering. If they study for two more years in a Master's degree program, they can earn a Master's degree. A person with a Master's degree is eligible to enter a Doctoral program in engineering, which is called the PhD. A PhD in engineering requires three or four years of study after a Master's degree, and the completion of a long research report called a dissertation.
[edit] British Courses
[edit] French Courses
The best way to become an engineer in France is to take the CPGE (Classe Preparatoire pour les Grandes Ecoles is the French preparation for engineer's school) for two years and then three years in an "Ecole d'Ingénieur" (Engineer's school). You could also study in an IUT (Institut universitaire technologique) for three years followed by three years in an "Ecole d'Ingénieur"
