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Which Engineering Fields/Jobs Will See a Surge in Demand in the Future? Why?

  • Which branches of Engineering, and which engineering job roles, will see a surge in demand in the future? And why?

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    Power engineers, Networking energetics engineer. As we move away towards less reliable alternative sources for generating energy, we need to figure out how to transport the energy more efficiently and make it available during peak loads without overstressing the network. Also in terms of transport, but for different issues. Internal combustion engines aren't going away soon, but they will take a secondary 'power plant' role and contribute less to the actual movement of the vehicle. Trams and trains have already gone full electric (or at least diesel-electric) for 60y+ now. Now it's onto cars, and perhaps with better battery technology, light aircraft. In reply to a previous answer: Civil engineers would be my 2nd best bet. We all want smarter, cheaper, efficient buildings and infrastructure. web, mobile app, creative consultants - these jobs are already in high enough demand, and I don't see how he market would further peak. ASIC/ASSP hardware engineers - There is always a need for these guys, but 99% of the fucntionality can be done with conventional controllers, PLCs, and other off-the shelf hardware. Sure, if you want to go ultra low power, that's when you call the heavy guns and need to strip down every useless transistor in the design. This is still a largely for niche applications, because I'm not aware of any true 'rapid prototyping' tools for cicuits. You can't really cut corners on this one, sometimes you have to go back to the whiteboard. There aren't many who will risk investing in hiring a team that will not have a guaranteed result by the end of the year (or by the time they will make significant progress, it is going to be morally obsolete). Sure, it's one thing to describe a circuit and make it work, but it's something else to make a bleeding-edge design.

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I can speak for my own field: The need for mobile software engineers should still continue to increase. Just the way we saw a surge in the need for mobile phone and tablet application devlopers, we should see a similar surge as new devices hit the market in the future. The world has yet to see a iDashboard in our cars, iAppliance screen for our fridges/toasters/washing machines/ etc, iHouse, etc. Some of these things are available in some form or another, but it's not at "revolutionary" status yet, and it's certainly not a mainstream platform. When these platforms come out, they'll need apps, and therefore engineers to develop for them.

Amir Memon

I agree with Bill, it is not only a question of demand, offer is at least as important than demand. So, my bet is Chemical Engineers specialized in composites. And then a PhD in transportation  (cars & aeronautics).

Carlos Griell Ventosa

Embedded C Programmer Web Developer and Designers Mobile app developers Hardware ASIC Engineer Civil Engineers Growth Hacker Internet Marketeers Creative Consultants

Vinit Agrawal

Don't forget that demand can increase due to a lack of supply as well. The supply of engineers in traditional fields is dwindling, particularly in the United States. Look at a field like corrosion science and read the publication from the National Academies, http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12560. In short: Advances in corrosion control are integral to the development of technologies that can solve the engineering grand challenges related to the sustainability and vulnerability of current, legacy, and future engineered products, systems, and infrastructure...The study revealed, nonetheless, that corrosion engineering is not a required course in the curriculum of most bachelor’s degree programs in MSE and related engineering fields. In many programs, corrosion is not only not a required subject, it is not even available. As a result, most bachelor’s-level graduates of materials- and design-related programs have an inadequate background in corrosion engineering principles and practices. Fields like metallurgy are not popular among the tech-set, but look around you. The world is still made of steel. Demand for engineers in such areas is not going away anytime soon, but the engineers themselves are. For those of us in "dead sciences" that spells job security.

Bill Kane

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