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The word engineer comes from a Latin word meaning ‘cleverness’.

Engineering Facts

Check out our interesting engineering facts and get some cool trivia related to amazing structures, famous landmarks and other impressive engineering achievements.

Learn about different types of engineering such as civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical and aerospace while enjoying all the incredible information related to famous bridges, buildings, dams, trains, tunnels and more.


Engineers solve practical problems by applying mathematical and scientific knowledge.

The word engineer comes from a Latin word meaning ‘cleverness’.

Learn about different types of engineering jobs such as civil, mechanical and electrical with our engineering job facts.

As of 2010, the tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE. It reaches an incredible 828 metres (2717 feet) in height. Check out more building facts or our list of the tallest buildings in the world.

The building of the Panama Canal, which links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, was one of the most difficult engineering projects ever. It is estimated that over 25000 workers lost their lives during the long and dangerous project, with most dying from disease and landslides.

Golf balls have dimples because they help reduce drag, this allows the ball to fly further than a smooth ball would.

As of 2010, the longest suspension bridge in the world is the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Kobe, Japan. Opened in 1998, it spans an amazing 1991 metres (6529 feet). Check out more interesing bridge facts or our list of the longest bridges in the world.

Used for water distribution, the Delaware Aqueduct in New York, USA is the longest tunnel in the world (as of 2010). Drilled through solid rock, it reaches a staggering 137 kilometres (85 miles) in length. More tunnel facts.

The Hoover Dam, built along the Colorado River between 1931 and 1936 reaches 726 feet in height (221 metres). More interesting dam facts.

High speed passenger trains in China reach speeds of up to 350 kph (220 mph).

The Titanic was 882 feet (269 metres) long. More Titanic facts.

The London Eye in England is the largest Ferris wheel in Europe, standing at a height of 135 metres (442 feet).

The tallest wind turbine in the world has rotor tips that reach over 200 metres (656 feet) above the ground.

Branches of engineering include aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, forensic, genetic, mechanical, military, nuclear, reverse, software and structural.

Fun Facts About Engineer

They consider any non-engineering course "easy".
T-shirt and jeans are their formal dress.
No matter how hard girl cries and how loud she yells, he just sits there calmly discussing her emotion in terms of mathematical logic.
Engineer touches his car more often than his girl.
Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet!
Engineering is like having an 8 a.m. class and a late afternoon lab every day for the rest of ur life.
Engineer don’t really mad when the price of petrol goes up, but mad like a hell when there is mistake in the vector calculation.
Engineers know how to build sports car and jet fighter but they don’t even know how to build relationship with a girl.
Engineer don’t understand things in mathematics, he just get used to them.
Engineer can have Doctor title (Dr.) in front of his name, while Doctor cannot get Engineer title (Ir.) in front of their names.
Engineers claim that they were the greenest people ever in this world by created hybrid engine, but at the same time they hiding the truth that they makes the world worst by using the battery in the hybrid engine. People think they are saving the environment with a hybrid car but the batteries in it can be hazardous to the environment and some electrical plants pollute.
They design road car that can reach speed more than 400km/h while at the same time they do realised that according to the law the max speed for car were allowed to go on highway is only 120km/h.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Engineer knows that nothing's ever built to last, but that doesn't mean it's not worth building.
Engineer is someone who is good with figures, but doesn't have the personality of an accountant.
Mercedes’s engineers design a feature where the car can auto reposition its seats towards a best position for an airbag to hug u when crashing. The new generation line of VW's seatbelts make sure u don’t get cut when they holding u in while u crashing. These car manufacture’s engineers are trying very hard to make crashing a bit comfortable. Soon we will be crashing in class and style!
The working time for engineer is from morning to eternity.

Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.

Employment Facts for Engineers:
Engineers held 1.6 million jobs in 2008. The highest number of these jobs were in civil engineering (278,400), mechanical engineering (238,700), industrial engineering (214,800), electrical engineering (157,800) and electronic engineering, not including computer engineering (143,700).
Educational Requirements for Engineers:
To get an entry-level engineering job, one usually needs a bachelor's degree in engineering. Sometimes a bachelor's degree in physical science or mathematics may suffice, especially in high-demand specialties. Generally engineering students specialize in a particular branch of engineering but may eventually work in a related branch.

Why Do You Need to Know About Educational Requirements?
Other Requirements for Engineers:
Engineers who offer their services directly to the public must be licensed. These licensed engineers are called Professional Engineers (PE). To become licensed one must have a degree from a program that is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), four years of relevant work experience, and successful completion of a state examination. Requirements vary by state.
How Do Engineers Advance?:
As entry level engineers gain experience and knowledge, they may work more independently, making decisions, developing designs, and solving problems. With further experience, engineers may become technical specialists or supervisors over a staff or team of engineers or technicians. Eventually, they may become engineering managers, or may move into other managerial or sales jobs.

Why Do You Need to Know About Advancement?
Job Outlook for Engineers:
In general, engineering employment is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through 2018, although outlook will vary by branch.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that biomedical, environmental and civil engineering will experience much faster than average growth, while employment in petroleum engineering, industrial engineering and geological and mining engineering will grow at a faster than average rate.

Other branches will grow either as fast as the average or slower than the average for all occupations, or will see a decline in employment.

Why Do You Need to Know About Job Outlook?
How Much Do Engineers Earn?:

Recently graduated engineers have higher average starting salaries than their counterparts with other degrees. These salaries vary by branch of engineering and level of education.

Median annual earnings for several branches of engineering (U.S., 2009):

Electrical: $83,110
Civil: $76,590
Mechanical: $77,020
Computer Hardware: $98,820
Environmental: $77,040
Nuclear: $96,910
Biomedical: $78,860

Use the Salary Wizard at Salary.com to find out how much engineers currently earn in your city.
What Do Engineers Do?:

Engineers who work in design and development:

design, plan, and supervise the construction of buildings, highways, and transit systems;
develop and implement improved ways to extract, process, and use raw materials;
develop new materials that both improve the performance of products and take advantage of advances in technology;
analyze the impact of the products they develop or the systems they design on the environment and on people using them;

Engineers who work in testing, production, or maintenance:

supervise production in factories;
determine the causes of breakdowns;
test manufactured products to maintain quality;
estimate the time and cost to complete projects;

Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition, Engineers, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm (visited November 17, 2010).
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Employment Statistics, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/oes/ (visited November 17, 2010).

Architecture and Engineering Occupations : Occupational Outlook Handbook : U.S. Bureau of Labor Stat Aerospace engineering and operations technicians operate and maintain equipment used in developing, testing, and producing new aircraft and spacecraft. Increasingly, they use computer-based modeling and simulation tools and processes in this work.

30 fun facts about engineering, science and technology

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1. 220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year.

2. A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

3. According to Moore's Law, microchips double in power every 18 to 24 months.

4. Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.

5. Although the famous first flight at Kitty Hawk took place on December 17, 1903, the secretive Wright Brothers did not demonstrate the technology to the broader public until August 8, 1908.

6. As of early 2009, there have been 113 space shuttle flights since the program began in 1981.

7. Bill Clinton's inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

8. Chuck Yeager blasted through the sound barrier at Edwards Air Force Base in 1947.

9. Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, the phenomenon by which electrons are knocked out of matter by electromagnetic radiation such as light.

10. In 1901, the Spanish engineer Leonar do Torres-Quevedo was responsible for the earliest developments in the remote control with his Telekine that was able to do "mechanical movements at a distance."

11. In their Miyagi, Japan laboratories, beginning in 1924, Professor Hidetsugu Yagi and his assistant, Shintaro Uda, designed and constructed a sensitive and highly-directional antenna using closely-coupled parasitic elements. The antenna, which is effective in the higher-frequency ranges, has been important for radar, television, and amateur radio.

12. Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science

13. No one has received more U.S. patents than Thomas Edison – 1,093 to be exact.

14. On 11 July 1962, France received the first transatlantic transmission of a TV signal from a twin station in Andover, Maine, USA via the TELSTAR satellite.

15. On 9 June 1906 the Winnipeg Electric Railway Co. transmitted electric power from the Pinawa generating station on the Winnipeg River to the city of Winnipeg at 60,000 volts. It was the first year-round hydroelectric plant in Manitoba and one of the first to be developed in such a cold climate anywhere in the world.

16. On December 12, 1901, a radio transmission of the Morse code letter 'S' was broadcast from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, using equipment built by John Ambrose Fleming.

17. One third of the world population has never made a telephone call.

18. Samuel Morse, the inventor of the Morse code, was a painter as well. One of his portraits is of the first governor of Arkansas and hangs in the governor’s mansion of that state.

19. Telecommunications satellites, and other satellites that need to maintain their position above a specific place on the earth, must orbit at 35,786 kilometers and travel in the same direction as the earth's rotation.

20. The circumference of the earth is about 25,000 miles. Its surface area is about 200,000,000 square miles and it weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

21. The Ericsson Company first produced cellular phones in 1979.

22. The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

23. The first Japanese-language word processor was developed in Tokyo between 1971 and 1978.

24. The first laser was made in California in 1960.

25. The first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980.

26. The Internet is the fastest-growing communications tool ever. It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years, and the Internet just 4 years.

27. There have been 113 space shuttle flights since the program began in 1981.

28. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.

29. U.S. President Bill Clinton's inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

30. Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish engineer, invented an arc converter as a generator of continuous-wave radio signals in 1902.

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