Mangalayatan University

Engineering Career Guidelines

Usha Martin University

The Engineering stream has always been a vital and most significant professional stream since the beginning of modern higher education and industries. This professional stream has many branches, which are pivotal and beneficial to professions, services, industries, and business & commerce in various economic fields. Hence, the engineering disciplines offer rather rich and varied opportunities, and are consequently, hugely popular and highly preferred professional courses in countries of the world over, including India. Again, development and opulence in the sector of engineering and technology is largely creditable for well-rounded economic development and prosperity of a country, owing to these reasons. In this particular web-article, we are providing very creative and beneficial information about the most common and popular careers in engineering stream in india, along with necessary, rather productive and securing, and expert engineering career guidelines, for benefits to students of India and abroad.

In India also, a huge number of engineering professionals are required every year, in the governmental, public, and the private sectors. As the massive and varied economy of India is progressing fast in its almost every sector, these requirements are further increased manifold. Most of the experts who are rather active and reputed in the sphere of offering wise and prolific career guidance engineering, the major and highly eminent fields for engineering professionals at present and in the future are production and manufacturing, telecommunications, heavy and medium-sized industries in various fields, real estate and construction, urban infrastructure and design, hospitality, business and commerce, professional services, power and energy, automotive, aviation, and many other fields.

List of Careers in Engineering Stream in India

Though almost all separate engineering disciplines offer a fast and rich employment, ample growth prospects, and high salaries, some particular branches of engineering are most distinguished and highly preferred owing to the following factors - vast and varied scope for quick and thriving employment, higher range of salary packages, faster commensurate promotions, wide scope for showing one's ingenuity and creativity, some exclusive facilities and fringe benefits, abundant scope for faster progress of career, and suitability for starting one's own business or profession. These most popular and highly sought after branches of engineering in India are Mechanical Engineering; Computer Science & Engineering; Information Technology [IT]; Electronics & Communication Engineering; Civil & Architectural Engineering; Electrical Engineering; and Automobile Engineering. Along with these most progressive branches, other top growing careers in engineering in India and abroad are listed in the following list of careers in engineering in India and abroad:

  • Computer Science & Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Civil & Architectural Engineering
  • Electronics & Communication Engineering
  • Information Technology
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Aeronautical Engineering
  • Automobile Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Biotechnology Engineering
  • Metallurgical Engineering
  • Textile Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Marine Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering

These all disciplines of engineering and technology offer jobs at varying professional hierarchies; the top positions requiring broad and varied disciplinary knowledge and extensive work experience [at least 10 years and more]. Again, for quicker employment, or high posts, or faster promotion in career, some relevant additional or supportive qualifications are necessary, which could be MBA, CAD, CAM, MCA, CADD, etc. The fresh graduates are generally recruited at posts like Assistant Engineer, Production Support Engineer, Production Engineer/Manager, Land Surveyor, Service Engineer, Site Engineer, Design Engineer, Quality Manager, Project Manager, Factory Manager, etc.