Careers in MFE
This is an exciting time for manufacturing engineering. There are many traditional career paths available in established manufacturing areas, for example, aircraft, cars, electronics, and there are new careers paths in emerging areas like biotechnology and e-commerce.
There are excellent salary opportunities as salaries for manufacturing engineers are above the average for all engineers, over $66,000 per year last year.
Manufacturing engineers work on everything that is manufactured. Manufacturing engineers have the opportunity to work on every kind of product there is.
Careers in manufacturing can put you in the middle of the challenges of turning raw material into product, faster, cheaper and better. Careers in manufacturing can also put in the middle of product design teams assuring manufacturability from the beginning of the design cycle. Even companies that do their manufacturing off-shore need manufacturing engineers in the US to do product and process design. Your career objective will be to create wealth by thinking.
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