Exploring Engineering Careers

by Andrew Morkes

Overview

Engineers solve problems, design structures, and create systems in a dynamic range of areas, from city planning to robotics to health care to renewable energy. As the world’s needs become more complex, the engineering field is growing rapidly.

Are you an aspiring engineer? Exploring Engineering Careers covers the history of the profession, explores modern work environments, and highlights the skills necessary for a successful career in the industry. Discover the basics of the field, including a variety of engineering jobs, pay ranges, professional development, and hiring outlooks. Then figure out how to use your classes, job experience, and additional opportunities such as apprenticeships, camps, and competitions to prepare for your future career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765684870
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2025
Series:	Career Quest
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range:	12 - 14 Years

Editorial Reviews

"Useful guidance for career-minded young makers who may wish to pursue engineering. . . A concise, information-packed overview with an emphasis on helpful practical advice."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2025-05-30
Useful guidance for career-minded young makers who may wish to pursue engineering.

Folding in statistics on average salaries and projected growth rates, Morkes offers a broad overview of select pursuits covered by the umbrella termengineering—from spaceship, roller coaster, and software design to criminal forensics—and makes the cogent observation that not all of them require costly graduate degrees. To broaden the field’s appeal a bit further, he also points to the essential role of engineering in glamorous developing technologies, like virtual reality and artificial intelligence, and lists distinguished people, including a president (Herbert Hoover) and several astronauts (Mae Jemison, Ellen Ochoa, and Neil Armstrong), who trained as engineers. For readers who are already thinking seriously about turning themselves into attractive job candidates, the author provides a helpful set of questions to ask at informational interviews, identifies engineering organizations that have youth outreach programs, and evaluates the pros and cons of different training paths, including higher education, apprenticeships, and the military. Depicting a diverse cast in action, the stock color photos are scanty but relevant, and the backmatter features generous annotated lists of useful print and web resources.

A concise, information-packed overview with an emphasis on helpful practical advice. (glossary, source notes, bibliography, index, photo credits)(Nonfiction. 12-18)

Kirkus Reviews