With there being over 200 different types of engineering, it helps to see them broken down into categories.

The types of engineering can be thought of as being a genre, and each genre has a sub-category.

Each sub-category has a vast number of specialties underneath them, and most are listed below.

Chemical

Agricultural

These engineers work to solve the problems related to plants, animals and the natural environment.

They largely focus on improving livestock and crop production, such as creating new machinery, designing new irrigation systems, and designing storage structures for harvested crops.

Biological and Biosystems

This field requires engineers to use biotechnology (which involves the usage of living microorganisms) in order to create antibiotics, insulin, and other products for human use.

Environmental

These engineers study the environment and come up with solutions that will keep pollution to a minimum. They create systems to purify water and air, and they also create them for cleaning up contaminated air, soil, and water.

Food

This branch is relatively self-explanatory. It involves the study of preserving and making raw food safe for consumer consumption. These engineers create ways to better package, manufacture, and handle the food to make it last longer.

Forestry

This involves the study of how industrialization is affecting nature and renewable resources. They manage tree harvesting, design plans so that forestry is not directly impacting communities, in addition to designing flood and run-off systems.

Materials

They study the properties of existing materials, in addition to using technology to manipulate them and create new ones.

Plastics

This involves working with polymers in order to create new uses for plastic as well as new types of plastic.

Water Resource

These engineers work with water to measure its quality and insure proper water filtration mechanisms.

Civil

They study all of the aspects involves in creating new buildings, bridges, highways, roadways, and other various other infrastructures. This includes planning, designing, constructing, and any other activities associated with projects.

Electrical

Communications

This branch of electrical engineering involves studying electronic parts that are used in communication avenues like navigation, computers, and entertainment. These engineers develop global positioning and satellite tools, and video-conferencing in order to make communication a quick and easy process.

Computer

This relates to everything related to computers. These engineers design programs and new technologies to make computers faster. They study how much memory can fit on a hard drive, programming the instructions on a computer screen, and creating other computer devices such as printers and scanners.

Geotechnical

This encompasses all studies of rocks, minerals, metals, and fuels. Engineers use these things to create energy and materials that we use from these materials.

Mechanical

Aerospace

These engineers study and create aircraft, spacecraft, satellites and missiles. They don’t just design these things for space, though. Satellites, for example, are used by every day patrons to access the television and the Internet.

Biomedical

Biomedical engineering involves using knowledge of mechanics and the human anatomy in order to create prosthetic and artificial body parts (such as arms, legs, and hearts) pacemakers, and incubators.

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