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Agricultural engineering | Farm power and machinery, biological material processes, bioenergy, farm structures and agricultural natural resources. |
Applied engineering | Systems integration, manufacturing and management.[6] |
Biomedical engineering, Biomedical nanoengineering | Medicine and healthcare biology, biocompatible prostheses, diagnostic and therapeutic devices ranging from clinical equipment to micro-implants, imaging equipment such as MRIs and EEGs, tissue regeneration and pharmaceuticals. The increased utilization of nanotechnology across the existing areas of this branch has led the specialization Biomedical nanoengineering. | - Bioinstrumentation, devices and tools used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
- Bioinformatics, digital tools to collect and analyze biomedical data, such as DNA
- Biomechanics, motion, material deformation, transport of chemical substances across biological membranes and flow inside the body. Artificial heart valves, artificial kidneys and artificial hips.
- Biomaterial, materials implanted in the body
- Biomedical optics
- Biosignal processing, recording and processing biological signals for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, such as cardiac signals, speech recognition and brain activity
- Biotechnology, use of living systems to make useful products such as pharmaceuticals and foods
- Clinical engineering, hospital-related products, including data management, instruments and monitoriing systems
- Medical imaging, MRIs, EEGs, ultrasound, PET
- Neural engineering, replacement/restoration of lost sensory and motor abilities, neurorobots, neuro electronics.
- Pharmaceutical engineering, pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical delivery
- Rehabilitation engineering, products that aid individuals with physical and other impairments, to improve e.g., mobility, seating and communication
- Tissue engineering
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Biological engineering |
Building services engineering | internal environment and environmental impact of buildings and other structures | - Architectural engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Lighting, including artificial and emergency lighting, low voltage systems, containment, distribution, distribution boards and switchgear
- Lightning protection
- Security, video and alarm systems
- Escalators and lifts
- Fire engineering, including fire detection and fire protection
- Building façade engineering
- Energy supply – gas, electricity and renewable sources
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Energy engineering | Energy efficiency, energy services, facility management, plant engineering, environmental compliance and energy production. Energy efficiency of buildings and manufacturing processes, employing advances in lighting, insulation and heating/cooling properties. |
Information engineering | Generation, distribution, analysis, and use of information, data and knowledge in systems. |
Industrial engineering | Logistical and resource management systems | - Manufacturing engineering, tools, equipment and processes
- Component engineering, optimal compents to be subsequently assembled into products.
- Systems engineering, logistics, team coordination, machinery control
- Construction engineering, buildings and other structures
- Safety engineering, safe operation and safe failure modes
- Reliability engineering, product durability
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Mechatronics engineering | Mechanical and electrical engineering hybrid |
Engineering management | Management of engineers and engineering processes |
Military engineering | Military weapons and vehicles, such as artillery and tanks |
Mining engineering | An engineering discipline that involves the science, technology, and practice of extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment. Mining engineering is closely related to many other disciplines like mineral processing and metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and surveying. A mining engineer manages all phases of mining operations – from exploration and discovery of the mineral resource, through feasibility studies, mine design, development of plans, production, and operations, to mine closure. With the process of mineral extraction, some amount of waste material and other byproducts are generated which are the primary source of pollution in the vicinity of mines. Mining activities by their nature cause a disturbance of the natural environment in and around which the minerals are located. Mining engineers must, therefore, be concerned not only with the production and processing of mineral commodities but also with the mitigation of damage to the environment both during and after mining as a result of the change in the mining area. |
Nanoengineering | The introduction of nanotechnology into existing fields of engineering. |
Nuclear engineering | Terrestrial and marine nuclear power plants |
Petroleum engineering | Oil and natural gas, including oil refining |
Project engineering | Project engineering includes all parts of the design of manufacturing or processing facilities, either new or modifications to and expansions of existing facilities. A "project" consists of a coordinated series of activities or tasks performed by engineers and designers. A small project may be under the direction of a project engineer. Large projects are typically under the direction of a project manager or management team. Project tasks typically consist of such things as performing calculations, writing specifications, preparing bids, reviewing equipment proposals and evaluating or selecting equipment and developing and maintaining various lists (equipment and materials lists) and drawings (electrical, instrument and piping schematics, physical layouts and other drawings used in construction). Some facilities have in house staff to handle small projects, while some major companies have a department that does internal project engineering. Large projects are typically contracted out to project engineering companies. Staffing at engineering companies varies according to the work load and duration of employment may only last until an individual's tasks are completed. |
Railway engineering | Railway systems, including wheeled and maglev systems |
Software engineering | Software engineering the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation and maintenance of software and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering and computer science to software. | - Cryptographic engineering Cryptographic Engineering is the discipline of using cryptography to solve human problems. Cryptography is typically applied when trying to ensure data confidentiality, to authenticate people or devices, or to verify data integrity in risky environments.
- Information technology engineering, (ITE) or information engineering methodology (IEM) is a software engineering approach to designing and developing information systems. It can also be considered as the generation, distribution, analysis and use of information in systems.
- Teletraffic engineering Telecommunications traffic engineering, teletraffic engineering, or traffic engineering is the application of traffic engineering theory to telecommunications. Teletraffic engineers use their knowledge of statistics including queuing theory, the nature of traffic, their practical models, their measurements and simulations to make predictions and to plan telecommunication networks such as a telephone network or the Internet. These tools and knowledge help provide reliable service at lower cost.
- Web engineering focuses on the methodologies, techniques and tools that are the foundation of Web application development and which support their design, development, evolution and evaluation. Web engineering is multidisciplinary and encompasses contributions from diverse areas such as systems analysis and design, software engineering, hypermedia/hypertext engineering, requirements engineering, human-computer interaction, user interface, information technology engineering, information indexing and retrieval, testing, modeling and simulation, project management and graphic design and presentation.
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Supply chain engineering | Supply chain engineering concerns the planning, design, and operation of supply chains.[7][8] |
Systems engineering | Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how to design and manage complex engineering projects over their life cycles. Issues, such as reliability, logistics and coordination of different teams, evaluation measurement and other disciplines become more difficult when dealing with large or complex projects. | - Systems engineering deals with work-processes, optimization methods and risk management tools. It overlaps technical and human-centered disciplines such as control engineering, industrial engineering, organizational studies and project management. Systems engineering ensures that all likely aspects of a project or system are considered and integrated into a whole.
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Textile engineering | Textile engineering courses deal with the application of scientific and engineering principles to the design and control of all aspects of fiber, textile and apparel processes, products and machinery. These include natural and man-made materials, interaction of materials with machines, safety and health, energy conservation and waste and pollution control. Additionally, students are given experience in plant design and layout, machine and wet process design and improvement and designing and creating textile products. Throughout the textile engineering curriculum, students take classes from other engineering and disciplines including: mechanical, chemical, materials and industrial engineering. |
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