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Engineering is an exceptionally dynamic sector. It is continually changing and expanding, and experts, professionals, and academics in the field need to keep pace with all of the latest developments. Conferences provide professionals in various engineering disciplines with knowledge about cutting-edge tools, technology, and skills in the field.

By reading a select number of engineering blogs, university students can gain access to the thoughts of some of the best engineers in the world and get on the path to becoming one themselves.

The current US student loan debt is an astounding $1.814 trillion (including federal and private loans). Unsurprisingly, student loan debt is the second-largest source of debt after mortgages. Discover how to defray the costs of an engineering degree with this 2026 scholarship guide.

Engineering internships are an increasingly important part of the transition from student to engineer. Internships provide an opportunity to put theoretical skills to work in hands-on environments. They also give engineering students valuable work experience, networking opportunities, and future career options.

Electrical engineering is a rich field with challenges for tomorrow’s engineers. Sitting at one of the most interesting crossroads of science and technology, its territory stretches across microelectronics, energy systems, telecommunications, and robotics. Much overlap exists between its different research areas, and that overlap is mimicked in many of the field’s largest potential breakthroughs.

Materials engineers study, design, and manipulate the properties of materials. Their work can enable entirely new products, or help to improve existing ones. This is a deeply multidisciplinary field, bringing together principles of physics, chemistry, and engineering. And several of the research challenges it’s facing are related to the most pressing challenges in the world.

Many believe science and engineering to be strictly objective and dispassionate, but the identity of a person no doubt shapes his or her way of viewing the world. By discriminating against women, minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community, STEM fields are limiting their perspective and approaches to problem-solving.

Among all employment sectors, engineering and technology are stereotypically replete with introverts, people who derive more pleasure, satisfaction, and energy from being alone as opposed to being in groups. While that is the stereotype, some engineers are extroverts, receiving much of their energy and enjoyment from being in the company of others. Fortunately for this group of people, many engineering occupations aren’t as introverted as they’ve been assumed to be.

The practical applications of environmental engineering have the potential to contribute to solutions to the plastic crisis, the climate crisis, the lack of sanitation on a global scale, the environmental impact of Western hunger for meat, and the devastating impact of fossil-fuel-based air travel.

This guide reveals how to ace a candidate interview for engineering school at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It includes a resource guide for preparation and how to draft stellar responses to common questions.