Rare Engineering Disciplines

[apache2k12]

Name some of the engineering disciplines that u think no one has ever heard of ..
e.g i think some of these are Cost engineering and Human factor Engineering

[FPEPro]

Nuclear Fire Protection Programs and Systems Engineering.

That's my field.



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May 9, 2013 9:32:05 GMT -5 FPEPro said:

Nuclear Fire Protection Programs and Systems Engineering.

That's my field.



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I'd never heard of your field until I checked the "Others" section in Engineering Discussion. What exactly do you do?

To contribute to the question though, I rarely hear Agricultural Engineering. 

[FPEPro]

May 9, 2013 17:41:24 GMT -5 @jamesisahokie said:

May 9, 2013 9:32:05 GMT -5 FPEPro said:

I'd never heard of your field until I checked the "Others" section in Engineering Discussion. What exactly do you do?

Well you can think of my job as a combination of four/five fields of Engineering.

Fire Protection Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Program Engineering
Systems Engineering

with a touch of Reliability Engineering for PRA purposes.

If you roll them all together you get what I do.

I manage the fire safety with regards to its interface with Nuclear safety at the Power plant. We insure that all work going on through the facility will not compromise the reactors integrity via fire induced damage. Fire is pretty much the most dangerous thing that can occur at a nuclear facility, so designing the systems and programs by which to manage those activities is crucial in avoiding an incident. The level of scrutiny and analysis that goes into is quite amazing. There is simply no room for errors when it comes to this industry. So everything must be designed, maintained, and optimized to the Nth degree to insure we maintain Fire and Nuclear safety throughout the plant.

There of course is much more specifics to what I do, but this gives a decent overview of it.



Chris

[FPEPro]

Oh, and I guess I mentioned three more lesser known fields in that explanation.

Reliability Engineering
Systems Engineering
Programs Engineering

There's allot of people in these three fields. In the states these are all normally masters or above level programs.



Chris

[juggernaut]

There are paper and package fields of engineering. Industrial engineering also has some unique niches, such as determining the average iq of a site to adjust training strategies. My IE buddy told me that the learning curve is actually a logarithm.

[Hellfire]

How about Ceramic Engineering and Planetary Engineering. I had never heard of either until the other day, when I was speaking to someone I work with.

[Robinet]

I think my specialization is pretty rare, in fact the only place in the north Europe/Scandinavia.

Electrical engineering with specialization in Ship automation and maritime technologies.