CAREER OPTIONS

Understanding your field of study and your career options when you graduate can give you a glimpse of a wonderful future you can have. You might be a high school student interested to take up an engineering course or you may already have enrolled in any of the engineering fields and you still need some guidance for your chosen path. There are several engineering fields that are offered in most universities in the Philippines. The following is a brief description of each field and some of the available career options.

CHEMICAL Engineering

It is the combined use of the principles of physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, environmental engineering, and health and safety sciences to analyze, develop, and design processes in which matter is physically or chemically transformed, separated, or transported.

A number of careers that a Che graduate can apply for are:

Biochemist

Chemical Equipment Sales Engineer

Chemical Test Engineer

Environmental Epidemiologist

Facilities Design Engineer

CIVIL Engineering

Civil engineers design structures such as roads, buildings, airports, tunnerls, dams, bridges, or water supply and sewage systems. Many civil engineers manage people and projects. Others may work in design, construction, research, and in the academe. There are many specialtiies within civil engineering and these are structural, construction, environment, transportation, geotechnical, and water resources.

Below are some of the jobs that CE graduates may get into:

Steel Bridge Designer

Senior Civil Engineer

Environmental Engineer

Design Engineer

Road Engineer

Project Consultant

COMPUTER Engineering

Computer engineers are involved on all aspects of computing, from the design of microprocessors, computers, and supercomputers, to circuit design, as well as the integration of computer systems into other kinds of systems.

Careers that a CoE graduate can enter are:

Computer Applications Engineer

Computer Architect

Computer Systems Analyst

Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer

COMPUTER Science

Computer scientists can be theorists, researchers, or inventors. They work from academic institutions to private industries, from complexity theory, hardware, programming language design to applying the theory, developing specialized languages, designing programming tools and even computer games. Some also work on multi-disciplinary projects, such as virtual reality in robotics.

Possible choices of career for CS graduates are:

Computer Programmer

Database Manager

Database Processing Consultant

Network Administrator

Software Engineer

ELECTRICAL Engineering

Electrical engineering is a discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. Moreover, it deals with the problems related to large-scale electrical systems such s power transmission and motor control. Electrical engineers design, develop, test, and supervise the deployment of electrical systems and electronic devices.

Some careers related to EE are as follows:

Computer Engineer

Power Engineering

Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer

Signal Processing

ELECTRICAL and COMMUNICATIONS Engineering

ECE is about electronic components, integrated circuits, and microprocessors and involves designing, fabricating, testing, maintaining, and supervising the manufacture of electronic equipment. This branch of engineering has a key place in the field of computers, information technology, electrical, power system operations and communication systems among others.

The opportunities available for ECE graduates include:

Communication Systems Engineer

Digital Electronics Engineer

Wireless communications Project engineer

Network Engineer

Circuit Designer

Audio Engineer

GEODETIC Engineering

Geodetic engineering is a field of engineering which involves different surveys like mineral, hydrographic, topographic, photogrammetric, and gravimetric surveys. It also includes astronomical observations, cartography, photo analysis, remote sensing, and GIS aming others.

Careers available for GE graduates are:

Surveyor

Cartographer

Photogrammetrist

GIS Analyst/Specialist/GIS Programmer/Developer

Remote Sensing Specialist

Mapping Technologist

INDUSTRIAL Engineering

Industrial Engineering unites mathematical, physical and management concepts to efficiently design and analyzee systems that serve industry and government both in manufacturing and services. Some specializations include probability and statistics, human factors, engineering economy, operations research, production planning and control, quality control techniques, and computer-aided design and simulation.

Some career paths followed by IE graduates are:

Factory Layout Engineer

Material Planning Analyst

Occupational Safety Specialist

Production Manager

Quality Control Manager

Time Study Engineer

MATERIALS Engineering

Materials engineers evaluate materials and develop machinery and processes to manufacture materials for use in products that must meet specialized design and performance specifications. They also develop new uses for known materials such as graphite, metal and metal alloys, ceramics and glass, plastics and polymers, and naturally occuring materials.

As a MatE graduate, you can try one of these jobs:

Materials Chemist

New Product Introduction manager

Test engineer

Quality Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

MECHANICAL Engineering

Mechanical engineers have a thorough knowledge of mater energy conversions, motions and forces obtained from computer simulations and experimental investigations of processes and systems. They can design mechanisms, machines and equipment for use in automated and control systems. They can also determine the heat and energy transfer rates that occur in different engineering devices.

ME graduates can try the following careers:

Automotive Engineer

Heat Transfer Technician

Manufacturing Engineer

Plant Engineer

Tool Designer

METALLURGICAL Engineering

Metallurgical engineering is a broad field that deals with all sorts of metal-related areas such as metals that make io important parts of cars, bikes, planes, and buildings, even toothpaste tubes. The three main branches are physical metallurgy, extractive metallurgy, and mineral processing.

Careers available for MetE graduates are:

Quality Assurance Metallurgist

Corrosion Engineer

MINING Engineering

Mining engineering is a field that involves many of the other engineering disciplines as applied to extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment.

EM graduates cant try the following careers:

Mineral Processing Operator

Mine Planning Engineer

Mine Surveyor

Mining Superintendent

PEMToday hopes that you gained valuable information with regard to the different fields of engineering mentioned above. Be an engineer and serve the Philippines.