• Question: how many different types of engineers are there?

    Asked by push021ace to Anthony, Olga, Madhumidha, Connor, Aruna on 11 Mar 2020. This question was also asked by five021ear.
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      Anthony Newell answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      There are many different types all relating to different technologies. I’m a chemical engineer but examples of other types are mechanical, materials, electrical, electronic, civil, structural, biomedical, energy etc. There are many others I’m sure!

    • Photo: Aruna Chandrasekar

      Aruna Chandrasekar answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      The core engineering subjects were:
      Mechanical, Civil and Electrical engineering.
      All other forms of engineering came up later and are usually a combination of these 3 types of engineering, with new concepts of their own.
      Today there are at least 40 different branches of engineering. So you have a wide variety of subjects to chose from.

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