How many areas are there in engineering?

This is what I obtained from internet

Acoustic Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Agricultural Engineering

Applied Engineering-

Architectural Engineering

Audio Engineering

Automotive Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Civil Engineering-

Computer Engineering

Electrical Engineering -

Environmental Engineering

Industrial Engineering-;

Marine Engineering-

Materials Science Engineering-

Mechanical Engineering-

Mechatronic Engineering

Mining and Geological Engineering-

Molecular Engineering

Nanoengineering-

Nuclear Engineering-

Petroleum Engineering-

Software Engineering-

Structural Engineering

Telecommunications Engineering -

Thermal Engineering-

Transport Engineering

Vehicle Engineering

Hi Wade:
The primary types of engineering are:
- Civil - roads, bridges, buildings, dams, etc
- Electrical - power, communications, instrumentation systems, etc
- Mechanical - manufacturing/industrial plants, conveyors, vehicles, etc
- Chemical - food/medical, polymers, etc.

IF you like math, civil, electrical and mechanical may be right for you. If you are more into chemistry, then think about chemical engineering.

You might ask an adviser at your school to arrange a visit with local engineers to get a feel for what they do.

Feel free to ask me any further questions.

Troy

OK, here are the branches off the top of my head:
1) Mechanical
2) Industrial
3) Civil
4) Chemical
5) Electrical
6) Electronic
7) Bio
8) Aeronautical
9) Hydrolic

Good question. Short answer is there is some type of engineering associated with every other discipline. I cannot think of any activity that would not involve engineering in some way. My company develops software for video editing, so we have software engineers who are also trained in film and video. One of our engineers was a double-major in art and computer science. You might think that an art such as painting has no possible connection with engineering, but who figures out how to manufacture the paint? A chemical engineer.

An engineer is just a natural-born problem solver with some ability in math and science. There are as many types of engineering as there are problems to solve.

I had quite a bit of trouble deciding the same for myself at that stage. I liked engineering but didn't really understand the wide branches of it. I always thought engineering was building things and what not. Its not easy just reading about an engineering career and knowing its what you want to do. There are many universities who do a course called General Engineering where for the first few years you do a bit of everything and then you see what you like to study and further study that field more intensely towards the end of the degree.
I personally ended up going with Aerospace Engineering because it had a bit of Civil, Electrical, Systems and Mechanical all combined together.

Don't be overwhelmed with so many engineering areas. Here is another way to look at them. While I agree with all the answers regarding the branches of engineering, and types of engineering within each branch, you can look at them at Macro (at the level of a Satellite) and Micro level (at Ground level) to get an understanding. When I studied Engineering, there were three main branches of engineering, namely Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil. But then I found out there are many other sub-branches of each branch. For example, Aerospace, Automotive and Bio-medical could be sub-branches of Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Hardware and Telecommunications could be sub-branches of Electrical Engineering, and so on. These sub-branches focus or concentrate on each discipline deeper to become, I would say a Specialist. I have seen people study Financial Engineering these days.

So, the bottom line is, what do you like to be, or what interests you the most. Go after the things that you are so "curious" about, more "passionate" about, that makes you happy and enjoy.

Also, one engineering degree should not limit your opportunities or potentials to succeed. You can do dual-degrees ( Mechanical + Business, Bio + Music, etc), or combine engineering with other professions to elevate yourself and have great marketable skills. You may want to consult the school counselor to see what they offer in that School. I have seen a Chemical Engineering graduate becoming a CEO of an Automotive Company. There are no limits or boundaries!

You take control of your destination, but as Steve Jobs once said, "Stay Hungry, and Stay Foolish" in whatever you do, to crave for learning new stuff everyday. Go after your Dreams!

I'll answer from a Consumer Devices standpoint like company I'm with, GoPro. we design, make, market, sell very popular consumer products.

Engineers we have in the company are the following
- mechanical, electrical, acoustic, software, firmware
with fields of expertise in
- optics, image science, acoustics, aerial, mobile apps, cloud infrastructure to name a few

also in my previous jobs, i have MS Electrical Engineering and had affinity for running the business. so all the strategic marketing, sales guys in our company were engineers as well.

Engineering background is critical foundation for a high tech company regardless of role and in my experience, crucial to moving up in management ranks and running the business.

There are a lot of areas to get engineer but depends what area do you most like to study

but the main things whatever you choose you have to love it and you will have fun. Always keep in mind “I can do it”.
No matter what. Especially I like software engineer.

These are the Different Types of Engineering Degrees

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Aerospace
Agricultural
Architectural
Biomedical
Biomechanical
Civil
Construction Environmental
Industrial
Engineering MBA
Computer
Electrical
Electronics
Eng. Technology
Management
Mechanical
Mechatronics
Project Mgmt
Robotics
Software
Structural
Find which one interests you and research on that specific one

Many!

One thing that helped me narrow down which college I attended was their Freshman Engineering Program. Like you, I knew I wanted to be an engineer but I was not sure what type. The university I attended had a course (similar to another discussed above) where I selected two types of engineering to focus on (one each semester). I chose to go with Electronics and Robotics. My first semester we worked with circuit boards and the second we worked with LEGO robots. Throughout each semester we had a session every Friday where the department heads from each engineering branch came and spoke about their program, their career, and what to expect from the courses they teach. This is ultimately how I decided I wanted to be an Industrial Engineer.

If you know you want to do engineering but you are not sure which branch you want to choose, look at schools that will help you make that decision (i.e. find a school that does not have you declare your specific engineering major until the Spring semester or even the year following). This will allow you to explore each kind of engineering with no pressure to decide before you even start.

Hope this helps!