Starting from simple household gadgets to complicated medical equipments and supersonic jets to super fast computers all are the gifts of engineering and technology. In the technology driven world of today, engineering and technology have become an integral part of growth and advancement for any country. An engineer applies scientific principle, theories and methods not only for finding solutions to technical problems but also in making new discoveries and designing new products and improving and modifying existing machines and systems. With the advancement in science and technology, there has been a tremendous increase in the scope of engineering and it no longer remains restricted to fields like civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. In fact courses in as many as 25 different branches of engineering are being offered today.
Engineering has a role to play in almost all the sectors of industry.
With the dependence on IT growing all around, qualified engineers specializing in IT and related areas are required not only in the manufacturing sector but in large numbers in the service sector as well. Demand for qualified engineers is therefore there in almost all the sectors of industry. However, those with industry specific engineering qualification like telecommunications, computers, automobiles or technology specific qualifications such as ultrasonics, vacuum technology, polymer technology etc have even a better scope. Nowadays management courses have also become very popular with engineering graduates. The added qualification provides them with a tremendous advantage in the job market and they enter the industry not merely as engineers but as technocrats, ready to take up production, sales or marketing careers.