Engineering Disciplines of oil and gas industries are mainly the process engineering, process safety engineering, mechanical engineering, piping and pipeline engineering, electrical engineering, control system and instrumentation (CSI) engineering and civil, structural and architecture (CSA) engineering.
Based on the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded annually, the engineering majors offered at U.S. colleges and universities can be roughly divided into one of four size-based categories (Source: The International Center for Development of Science and Technology (ICDST) Research Group Inc.): the main disciplines (Civil, Computer, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering): 67%, and the medium four disciplines (Aerospace, Biomedical, Chemical, and Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering): 20%, and the smaller ten disciplines (Agricultural, Architectural, Engineering Management, Engineering Physics/Engineering Science, Environmental, General Engineering Studies, Materials, Mining, Nuclear, and Petroleum Engineering): less than 10%, and the specialty disciplines (such as Ocean Engineering, etc.): less than 5% of all engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded annually.
In 2014 ~ 2015, degrees awarded to students graduating with a bachelor’s degree from an engineering program increased by 7.5 %, continuing a trend of annual growth since 2007. Some of the largest year-to-year percentage increases were seen in computer engineering related programs: Computer Engineering (16.2 %), Computer Science (inside engineering) (17.6 %); and Electrical/Computer Engineering (21.3 %). Electrical Engineering was an outlier, showing only a 1.1 % gain in bachelor’s degrees over the previous year. (Source: ASEE)
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