Are you the type of person who wants to be able to have an interesting and enjoyable job helping to meet the needs of people in society.  Would you like to know that your college education will provide you with the widest range of opportunities, excellent pay, and very little possibility of becoming obsolete or needing to start over.  Then engineering is for you.

What is Engineering?

Engineering is the use of mathematics and science to help meet the needs of society.  It typically takes four to six years after completing high school to complete the education needed to be able to do engineering work.  The four major types of engineering are Chemical, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering.  Many other types such as Aerospace, Agricultural ,Biomedical, Environmental, Industrial, Nuclear, are specialties within the major types or some combination of the major types.  All types of engineering require a core set of communication, teamwork, and problem solving skills which are taught primarily in the first two to three years of college.  Students that already have acquired some of these skills while they were in high school usually need two or less years of pre engineering college courses.  These courses can all be taken at Roane State community college before transferring to a chosen university or college which offers the desired engineering specialty program.

What Do Engineers Do?

Engineers use mathematics and science to help meet the needs of society.  An engineering education prepares people for the broadest possible opportunities for employment.  Business, industry, and government organizations vigorously recruit engineering graduates to work as engineers, technical managers, computer systems designers and administrators, teachers and training planners and coordinators, researchers, systems analysts, product development and designers, etceteras.  Engineering is also recognized as excellent preparation for medical schools and law schools.  Engineering graduates are also recruited by Graduate Schools of Business, Sciences, Mathematics, etceteras.  All types of employers recognize that people with an engineering degree can quickly teach themselves whatever they need to know to help the organization solve problems.  Since the ability to create teams of problem solvers is critical to any employer's success they recognize the need to hire engineers even if their business does not specifically require engineers.  In this information age of world wide web computer based businesses and organizations, the need for people with the highly versatile and flexible education of engineering is increasing almost as rapidly as the use of the internet.