This week is National Engineers Week, and it’s a great time to celebrate how engineers make a difference in our world. This unique, week-long event helps increase public dialogue about the need for engineers and bring engineering to life for kids, educators, and parents. Thinking about a career in engineering? The creative minds behind Engineers Week, DiscoverE, have a few reasons you may love a career in engineering:
10 Reasons To Love Engineering
- Love your work, and live your life too! Engineering is an exciting profession, but one of its greatest advantages is that it will leave you time for all the other things in your life that you love!
- Be creative Engineering is a great outlet for the imagination—the perfect field for independent thinkers.
- Work with great people Engineering takes teamwork, and you’ll work with all kinds of people inside and outside the field. Whether they’re designers or architects, doctors or entrepreneurs, you’ll be surrounded by smart, inspiring people.
- Solve problems, design things that matter Come up with solutions no one else has thought of. Make your mark on the world.
- Never be bored Creative problem solving will take you into uncharted territory, and the ideas of your colleagues will expose you to different ways of thinking. Be prepared to be fascinated and to have your talents stretched in ways you never expected.
- Earn a big salary Engineers not only earn lots of respect, but they’re highly paid. Even the starting salary for an entry-level job is impressive!
- Enjoy job flexibility An engineering degree offers you lots of freedom in finding your dream job. It can be a launching pad for jobs in business, design, medicine, law, and government. To employers or graduate schools, an engineering degree reflects a well-educated individual who has been taught ways of analyzing and solving problems that can lead to success in all kinds of fields.
- Travel Field work is a big part of engineering. You may end up designing a skyscraper in London or developing safe drinking-water systems in Asia. Or you may stay closer to home, working with a nearby high-tech company or a hospital.
- Make a difference Everywhere you look you’ll see examples of engineering having a positive effect on everyday life. Cars are safer, sound systems deliver better acoustics, medical tests are more accurate, and computers and cell phones are a lot more fun! You’ll be giving back to your community.
- Change the world Imagine what life would be like without pollution controls to preserve the environment, lifesaving medical equipment, or low-cost building materials for fighting global poverty. All this takes engineering. In very real and concrete ways, engineers save lives, prevent disease, reduce poverty, and protect our planet.
How To Get Involved
The National Society of Professional Engineers initiated Engineers Week in 1951, and the engineering community has since celebrated the profession through a combination of local and national programs. DiscoverE encourages the engineering community to get involved by helping kids and adults discover engineering by visiting a classroom of after school group or by bringing students to your workplace. The engineering community is also encouraged to celebrate the engineering profession and spreading the word about National Engineers Week by talking to your friends and colleagues or by posting to social media. Learn more about National Engineers Week here and be sure to check back to the Solutions Warehouse throughout the week to see more about how engineers have impacted the manufacturing industry and to get to know a few engineers at CBT.
