What Do Engineers Do?
Electrical Engineers make a difference in the world by…
There's a Job in Engineering for You
Interested in curing cancer? Devise microbots that can enter the human body to fight disease.
Want to Go Green? Design fuel efficient vehicles as an electrical engineer.
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- Building more fuel-efficient cars and other transportation vehicles to help reduce pollution and save earth's resources.
- Designing the next generation of computers and computer chips.
- Experimenting with microbots that can enter the human body to diagnose and fight diseases.
- Improving worldwide networks of telephones, radio, Internet, and television.
- Inventing new products and starting their own companies to make and sell them.
Electrical engineers design, construct, and maintain products, services, and information systems that run our world. Electrical engineers work in the areas such as power generation systems, telecommunications, and consumer electronic industries, but also wok in the aerospace, medical, and semiconductor fields.
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Did You Know?
The U.S. Department of Entergy estimates that if the country's electric grid were just 5 percent more efficient, the energy savings would be as much as permanently eliminating the fuel and greenhouse gas emissions from 53 million cars.
Salary:
The average starting salary for a civil engineer (2007):
| B.S. Degree |
M.S. Degree |
Ph.D. |
| $55,292 |
$66,309 |
$75,982 |
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