What is an Engineer? – Resource

An engineer, designs things, builds things, tests things, looks after and repairs things. Engineers work everywhere. From motor cars to space rockets, windfarms to nuclear power stations, vaccines to artificial hips, buildings to bridges, smart phones to computer games, agriculture to supermarkets, recording studios to sports stadia.

Whatever you are interested in, as an engineer you can work on it. There is no part of modern life that engineers are not involved in.