Engineers work in teams.
Engineers have strong backgrounds in science, mathematics and technology. A student team assembles a robot for the college's biennial Robot Triathlon competition. With these skills and broad training, mechanical engineers are in demand in practically every type of manufacturing and consulting organization. Mechanical engineers may work in automotive, materials processing, heavy equipment, paper, plastics, power, aerospace, chemical, electronics, or many other industries. The work of a mechanical engineer may involve research and development of new products, design of equipment or systems, supervision of production, plant engineering, administration, sales engineering, or testing of individual machines or complete plants.