7th Grade- Branches and Sub-Fields of Engineering

As this type of engineer, your job would be to oversee the construction of the buildings and infrastructure that make up our world: highways, skyscrapers, railways, bridges, and water reservoirs.

This sub-fields falls under the main branch of civil engineering and the engineer would manage construction projects, ensuring that they are scheduled and built in accordance with plans and specifications.

These engineers might develop a bike lock or an aircraft carrier, a child’s toy or a hybrid car engine, a wheelchair or a sailboat—in other words, just about anything you can think of that involves a mechanical process.

These engineers study all phases of extracting mineral deposits from the earth.

These engineers design, analyze, model, simulate, and test aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, missiles, and rockets.

These engineers focus on the design of farm machinery, the location and planning of farm structures, farm drainage, soil management and more.

This sub-field involves the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of transportation systems to help build smart, safe, and livable communities.

As this type of engineer, you focus on advances in technology and medicine to develop new devices and equipment for improving human health such as artificial limbs/organs, pacemakers, corrective lenses or computer simulations to test new drug therapies.

As this type of engineer, you use biological (natural or organic) materials, such as organisms, cells and certain molecules, to develop products and processes to produce items like petroleum, food, paper, medications, pesticides and more.

As this type of engineer, you focus on designing voice, video, and data communications systems to keep users connected.

These engineers determine the most effective ways to use people, machines, materials, information, and energy to make a product or to provide a service. They find ways to eliminate wastefulness.

This main branch focuses on chemical processes. These engineers utilize their knowledge of the physical world to manipulate the interactions of individual atoms and molecules. They apply the discoveries made by chemists to build groundbreaking materials with atomic precision.

This type of engineer studies the properties and structures of metals, ceramics, plastics, composites, nanomaterials (extremely small substances), and other substances in order to create new materials that meet certain mechanical, electrical, and chemical requirements.

These engineers focuses on research, design, develop, and test computer systems and components such as processors, circuit boards, memory devices, networks, and routers.

This main branch of engineers specialize in power supply and generation. They design, develop, test and supervise electrical equipment manufacturing.