Twenty Reasons to Become an Engineer
- Engineering allows you to put your creativity to the test every day
- It offers you intellectual and technical challenge
- It helps people by improving the quality of everyday life
- Engineering offers a host of well paid careers
- There is ample opportunity for rapid advancement to the top jobs for those with the ability, ambition and drive to succeed
- Engineers make a tremendous contribution to society through enhancement and protection of the environment
- They solve global problems through the ideas they develop and the wealth they generate
- There is tremendous opportunity to collaborate with many other professionals, including doctors, lawyers, accountants, geologists, scientists, meteorologists, relief agencies and government officers
- Because engineering is an international activity, professional engineers often have the opportunity to travel abroad
- Chartered and Incorporated Engineers in middle management can progress into top management with correspondingly high salaries
- The professional engineers' combined skills of numeracy, creativity, scientific knowledge and team-working make them 'hot' assets to industrial and business employers
- Unemployment for professional engineers is virtually zero
- Engineering-led companies generate more than 40 per cent of the UK's national wealth
- Engineers are the leaders in technical innovation. It is making an increasing impact on advances in such fields as medicine and robotics
- Out of an estimated population in UK manufacturing of £43,000 individual top executives in 1998, 24% (around 10,000 top executives) were estimated to hold a degree or professional qualification in science, engineering or technology
- Of the one hundred FTSE 100 top executives, 17 proved to hold engineering qualifications as opposed to 15 with accounting qualifications
- Engineering professionals enjoy a high level of responsibility and autonomy within their chosen area of work
- As regards salaries, eleven years after graduation, both Engineering and Mathematical (Computer) Science graduates appear in the top ten disciplines, earning more than Clinical Medicine graduates
- The imagination, skills and experience of engineers have had more influence on shaping the world than any other profession
- The global engineering community develops engineering education, skills and practice in developing countries in order to help combat world poverty
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