Engineers transform scientific and mathematical principles into useful goods and services. An engineer may work in the office or out in the field. The engineer is an innovator as well as a problem solver. The engineer collects data and analyzes it. An important tool of the engineer is the computer and its multiple applications that are used for design and problem solving.

Engineering is one of the older and more respected professions. Compensation, for the average engineer in today’s dollars may be expected to reach $100,000 annually. Many engineers start their own businesses or become industrial managers, so their higher income is no longer recorded under engineering.

There are important advantages in completing the first two years of engineering at Shasta College. First, engineering students at Shasta College realize major savings in tuition and living expenses. Second, Shasta College engineering students who transfer to universities as juniors are better prepared than those students who received their first 2 years of education at that university. That better education is typical of community colleges. It may be attributed to

Shasta College is special in that it ranks second in the state in general education transfer preparation. Our students have scored as second best prepared for the third year of university study, in all fields, compared to all California community colleges. Certainly our engineering students achieve better in their junior year at the universities than students who started at universities. And Shasta College ranked 18^th out of 105 in percentage of students transferring to universities.