What Do Engineers Do?
Manufacturing Engineering
As a manufacturing engineer, you will work with designers, engineers, directors, and company owners as a team to devise and maintain efficient and reliable manufacturing systems to produce products that we all use. Results of your work might later be found at your home, school, your favorite ball park, a rock concert stadium, in a space vehicle, or in a hospital operating room where critical lifesaving equipment stands ready to assist the surgical team during high-risk operations.
As a manufacturing engineer, you may ...
- be involved in the design and production of a new IPOD or a cell phone;
- develop alternative manufacturing plans to produce new models of cars at a cheaper price;
- develop delivery systems so that your favorite soft drink is always available at the local grocery store;
- direct studies that lead to the selection and purchases of manufacturing equipment that will be most cost effective;
- lead a program to automate the production of vaccines or antibiotics with robotics and remote control devices; or
- develop processes that improves energy consumption in a candy factory and reduces plastic waste during packaging.
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Meet JETS Extreme Engineers
Read the PE Times issue
September 2006, Issue #50
Related Links
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
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