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military aircraft to hospital equipment don't interfere with other electronic signals.

Even design engineers work with one another so the ability to communicate with good people skills is essential. Clients and engineers must understand one another. Engineers must be able to write reports and give presentations. They must be able to convince and assure their clients of the viability of new designs.

Engineers are known for being creative. In each of them is a little bit of the MacGyver personality that allows them to find unusual solutions to ordinary problems. They never give up; they just step back and look at the problem in a new way. They are living examples of "thinking outside the box." Engineers are the scientists who have put men on the moon and working on a space station. Engineers are the ones who design highways and bridges and tall buildings and microscopic surgical instruments. They design new ways to mine the earth's resources and new ways to conserve it. They are the "can do" people who when presented with a previously insolvable problem say, "Let me think about that." And then they do, and then they find a solution.

If the idea of engineering appeals to you but you're not completely sure, visit the website

http://www.tryengineeri ng.or/become.php

You'll find links to various engineering societies in your area that may lead to summer jobs and engineers who will be able to give you a look inside their world. And if your hunch about your aptitudes is right, you may soon be studying to become an engineer yourself.

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