Career Option- Engineer and Engineering as a profession

An engineer is a person who is trained professionally to apply scientific knowledge, mathematics and ideas to solve real world problems in financially efficient manner. Engineering as a career option would involve major responsibilities of understanding interpreting and defining worldly technical problems, doing research, analysing criteria, finding and analysing relevant solutions and making commercially viable decisions with due respect in time.

There are multiple disciplines in engineering with varying career options. Some of the most popular ones are Mechanical, Civil, Electrical and Electronics, Systems, Computer software and hardware and many more. In layman terms engineers, depending on their specialities, build bridges, roads, buildings, TVs, Mobiles, Laptops, iPads, Cars, Aeroplanes, Ships and the list goes on. Engineers have pretty decent financial beginnings in career depending on the colleges they pass out from. I will try and discuss each of them as career option in the coming posts.

To be an Engineer one has to be educated and trained in engineering discipline. There are various colleges in India and world where engineers are made, like IITS in India, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California, Stanford University and many more. A student must have aptitude for science subjects, namely Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. After 10 std, in India, science stream must be chosen with Physics, Chemistry and Maths combination. After 12^th or Junior college in science stream, one can take entrance exams conducted by various engineering institutes, like IIT-JEE and AIEEE tests in India.

I guess the above matter gives fair amount of primary information and in my next blogs, I will go in details of streams in engineering, colleges, admission and preparation, fees, coaching, future and some lists of relevant web sites and coaching institutes.