Chemical engineers find employment within government and semi-government agencies, and in a wide variety of industries including chemical, oil and mining, food processing, fermentation, paper manufacturing, forest products and paint formulation. They work for government bodies and for private employers as consulting engineers and engineering contractors specialising in areas such as construction and management, hydrology, and structural design. Electrical and computer systems engineering is concerned with computer systems, control systems, electronics, telecommunications and electrical power. A career in this field leads to the technological developments that society often takes for granted, for example television, radio, mobile telephones, the bionic ear, personal computers and electrical appliances. Computer systems engineering combines an understanding of the computer languages and operating systems of computer science with the hardware and systems approaches of electrical engineering.
Materials engineering is concerned with the manufacture, fabrication and economic use of materials.
Mechanical engineering is the practice that has arisen from the need to generate, transmit and control mechanical energy. It has as its core the interaction of people and machines and the control of that interaction. Mechanical engineers work in the aeronautics industries, acoustics, mining and oil exploration, and in the manufacture of textiles and chemicals. Mechatronics engineering brings together the fundamentals, procedures and techniques for the design, production and service of future-oriented machines and devices. Interdisciplinary engineering students pursue studies in information engineering and one of civil, electrical and electronics, or mechanical engineering.