Twenty Reasons to Become an Engineer

1. Engineering allows you to put your creativity to the test every day
   
   
2. It offers you intellectual and technical challenge
   
   
3. It helps people by improving the quality of everyday life
   
   
4. Engineering offers a host of well paid careers
   
   
5. There is ample opportunity for rapid advancement to the top jobs for those with the ability, ambition and drive to succeed
   
   
6. Engineers make a tremendous contribution to society through enhancement and protection of the environment
   
   
7. They solve global problems through the ideas they develop and the wealth they generate
   
   
8. There is tremendous opportunity to collaborate with many other professionals, including doctors, lawyers, accountants, geologists, scientists, meteorologists, relief agencies and government officers
   
   
9. Because engineering is an international activity, professional engineers often have the opportunity to travel abroad
   
   
10. Chartered and Incorporated Engineers in middle management can progress into top management with correspondingly high salaries
    
    
11. The professional engineers' combined skills of numeracy, creativity, scientific knowledge and team-working make them 'hot' assets to industrial and business employers
    
    
12. Unemployment for professional engineers is virtually zero
    
    
13. Engineering-led companies generate more than 40 per cent of the UK's national wealth
    
    
14. Engineers are the leaders in technical innovation. It is making an increasing impact on advances in such fields as medicine and robotics
    
    
15. Out of an estimated population in UK manufacturing of £43,000 individual top executives in 2000, 24% (around 10,000 top executives) were estimated to hold a degree or professional qualification in science, engineering or technology
    
    
16. Of the one hundred FTSE 100 top executives, 17 proved to hold engineering qualifications as opposed to 15 with accounting qualifications
    
    
17. Engineering professionals enjoy a high level of responsibility and autonomy within their chosen area of work
    
    
18. As regards salaries, eleven years after graduation, both Engineering and Mathematical (Computer) Science graduates appear in the top ten disciplines, earning more than Clinical Medicine graduates
    
    
19. The imagination, skills and experience of engineers have had more influence on shaping the world than any other profession
    
    
20. The global engineering community develops engineering education, skills and practice in developing countries in order to help combat world poverty.