There are four primary engineering disciplines (PEDs) in the engineering field and hundred of sub-disciplines or specialties associated with engineering disciplines. Below is a list of PEDs contemplated under PES.
Chemical Engineering
Work areas include planning, development, evaluation and operation of chemical, biochemical or physical plants and processes. Changes in composition, energy content, state of aggregation of materials, forces that act on matter and relationships are examined and new and conventional chemical materials, products and processes. It includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluating chemical plants and petroleum refineries, pollution control systems, biochemical processes, plastics, pharmaceuticals, fibers; analysis of chemical reactions that take place in mixtures; determination of methodologies for the systematic design, control and analysis of processes, evaluating economics, safety, etc.
Civil Engineering
Includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluation, operation, production, furnishing, construction, alteration, repair, processing or assembling of vessels, aircraft, or other kinds of personal property, including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning for such vessels and/or aircraft.
Electrical Engineering
Work areas include planning, design, development, evaluation and operation of electrical principles, models and processes. It includes, but is not limited to, the design, fabrication, measurement and operation of electrical devices, equipment systems (e.g., signal processing; telecommunications; sensors, microwave, and image processing; micro-fabrication; energy systems and control; micro- and nano-electronics; plasma processing; laser and photonics; satellites, missiles and guidance systems, space vehicles, fiber optics, robotics, etc.)
Mechanical Engineering
Work areas include planning, development, evaluation and control of systems and components involving the production and transfer of energy and with the conversion of one form of energy to another. It includes, but is not limited to, planning and evaluation of power plants, analysis of the economical combustion of fuels, conversion of heat energy into mechanical energy, use of mechanical energy to perform useful work, analysis of structures and motion in mechanical system, and conversion of raw materials into a final product, etc. (e.g., thermodynamics, mechanics, jets, rocket engines, internal combustion engines, steam and gas turbines, continuum mechanics, dynamic systems, dynamics fluid mechanics, heat transfer, manufacturing, materials, and mechanics, reactors, etc.). |
