Biomedical engineering is a good field too. There is a high demand to shift from human to robotic health care. Easy example would be a nurse who takes blood pressure to an automatic cuff that does it.

Another example would be surgery by robots.

In the same vein, business process re-engineering is in high demand, esp by multinational corporations. Brush up on your familiarity with Simprocess.

Petroleum engineering will be a declining field. With increase demand for efficient and sustainable fuels, it's clear that many first world countries are reducing the use of fossil fuels for energy. That's why I earlier mentioned power engineering.

Petroleum engineers of the 21st century will be the wagon wheel makers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Informatics (information engineering) is a lucrative field. The starting salary for a search engine analyst is bc 125k and 150k and goes up to about 225k after about 5 yrs experience. Check monster.com for SEO, SEM, and QA/CM positions.

You can also look up salary range on salary.com.

Another tip...learn a foreign language. With the financial crash of a lot of countries, enterprises are doing a robust diversification of their revenue. English is good to know but Chinese and Farsi are right behind.

Being familiar with Bengali is good too.

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Posted on 6/26/10 at 3:29 pm to tigerpurple84

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Petroleum engineering will be a declining field. With increase demand for efficient and sustainable fuels, it's clear that many first world countries are reducing the use of fossil fuels for energy. That's why I earlier mentioned power engineering.

Petroleum use will be declining eventually but it will be increasingly difficult to find oil deposits and they will be in increasingly difficult locations so my guess is that it will be a lucrative field for decades. Maybe fewer jobs but probably higher paying.

Power engineering - well that is dicey. If we have any sense then that means nuclear. The usual route for that is the US Navy and nuclear driven vessels, mostly subs. Probably a pretty good choice. I think the need will mandate that.

Aside from nuclear I have no idea what a "power engineer' would mean. It depends on the source of the power and could be chemical, electrical, or mechanical though the safest bet would probably be on the mechanical side.

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