A nuclear engineer researches and develops new applications for nuclear energy and radiation.
Engineering Disciplines
Quoth wikipedia:
“Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning “cleverness” and ingeniare, meaning “to contrive, devise”) is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.
The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application.”
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Check out our breakdowns of the Fields of Engineering.
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineers apply physics and mathematics to design, develop, build, and test mechanical systems.
Materials Engineering
Material engineers work with the properties of matter to create solutions to real world problems.
Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineers, sometimes known as the efficiency people, work to make sure industries and organizations are operating at maximum efficiency and safety.
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Engineering is the integration of engineering and problem solving to improve the natural environment and to protect our natural resources.
Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineers work with electricity in many different ways to create some of the coolest and most essential technology.