Engineering Work Is All Around You

Now you are ready to get into your car or take the bus to go to school. The car you are about to drive was made possible with the help and collaboration of automotive, mechanical, electrical, electronic, material, diemical, and petroleum engineers. So, you see there is not much that you do in your daity lifo that has not involved the work of engineers. Be proud of the decision you have made to become an engineer. Soon you will become one of riiose whose behind-the-scenes eflbrts will be taken for granted 1 billions of people around the world. But you will accept that fret gladly, knowing that what you do wiU make people s lives better. 

Engineers Deal with an Increasing World Population 

We as people, r ardless ofwhere we live, need the following things food, clothing, shelter, and water for drinking or cleaning purposes. In addition, we need various modes of transportation to get to diflfrrent places, because we may live and work in difierent dries or wish to visit friends and rdarives who may live elsewhere. We also like to have some sense of security, to be able to rdax and be entertained. We need to be liked and appreciated 1 our friends and family, as well. 

Accordii to- the latest estimates and projections of the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population will reach 9.3 billion people by the year 2030. Not only wiU the mimber of people inhabitii the earth conrinue to rise but die age structure of the world population will also 

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