Have you thought about being an engineer?
Engineering makes up an exciting range of businesses and industries, including construction, transport, cosmetics, medicine, food, fashion and much more.
Engineers work in all kinds of environments, from offices, laboratories and film studios to outdoors and underground. Engineering today is closely linked with technology, and plays a major role in many technological devices and advances – thanks to engineers you might be reading this on your phone for example.
Engineers use the knowledge they have in a specific field to make things work and to solve problems. Engineers exist in all walks of life: transport, medicine, entertainment, space exploration, environmental management – you name it, engineers have worked on it.
Below is an excellent programme from the BBC all about how a jet engine is made. At every stage engineers with different skills have to work together to make an incredibly precise piece of equipment.
Tomorrow's Engineers - a web site with loads of information and guidance about careers in engineering.
