What is Engineering?

Engineers create imaginative and visionary solutions to the challenges facing the planet to improve the world we live in.

Engineers have been around since the very beginning of human civilisation, and have produced much of the technology, products and infrastructure we take for granted.

Today, engineering offers more career options than any other field. From the established civil and mechanical areas to the emerging environmental and biomedical fields, each discipline will lead to exciting careers solving both global and local challenges.

Some of the big issues confronting us are climate change, diminishing supplies of water and mineral resources, and the persistent problems of poverty and disease. As innovative problem-solvers and inventors, engineers will be called on to develop new sources of power to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, design low-cost wastewater treatment and distribution systems for rapidly growing cities and build ‘scaffolds’ to enable human tissue growth at a cellular level.

The engineers of our lives will be responsible for almost all of the future’s exciting and innovative technology and UQ Engineering is equipping the next generation of engineers with the power to enrich the lives in our community. So, why study UQ Engineering?

 

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