Engineering Job Outlook Is Poor

BrendanG
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 21:17:53 +0000

I’m going to be a senior in high school this year and applying for colleges in the next few months. I wanted to go into engineering (maybe Mech.) for a while now but I’m getting a little spooked by the BLS outlook. Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering are growing at only 5-6%, while Aerospace and Electrical Engineering are declining in numbers. The only engineering career that is growing at and impressive rate is Biomedical Engineering. This is a big concern when each year tens of thousands of people are earning their engineering degrees in the US but the Job Outlook isn’t looking good. Supposedly getting an engineering job is fairly easy, but will this be true in the next few years? Those of you that are engineers now or looking for an engineering job please leave your opinion.