Category:Engineering disciplines

Geothermal powerplant, circa 1904

Various disciplines of engineering including chemical, civil and mechanical

Subcategories

• Acoustical engineering - engineering that deals with problems of voice, noise, and acoustics
• Agricultural engineering - the application of engineering principles to agriculture
• Chemical engineering - the branch of engineering that deals with physical and life sciences to assist the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into usable products
• Civil engineering - the use of physical sciences to design and build aspects of the built environment
• Computer engineering - the combination of electrical engineering and computer system to create coherent computer systems
• Concurrent engineering - engineering parallel processes (such as design engineering and manufacturing engineering) to speed completion of a project
• Design engineering - designing a product or system while also engineering its internal structure
• Electrical engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Industrial engineering
• Maintenance engineering - the application of engineering principles to ensure better maintainability and reliability
• Mechanical engineering - the application of physical sciences to the design and manufacturing of mechanical systems
• Metallurgical engineering - the study of metals, combining theory and practice, covering the mining, extraction, design and processing of metals, as well as how metals react to environmental changes or stress
• Mining engineering - the application of engineering principles to locate and extract mineral deposits from the earth
• Petroleum engineering - the engineering discipline focused on identification, access, extraction, estimation, management, and transportation of oil and natural gas resources located in rock pores below the earth’s surface
• Research and development
• Thermal engineering - the engineering of systems that require changes in temperature to operate