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15 Reasons to Become an Engineer?

Here are 15 great reasons why you would want to become a Biological and Agricultural Engineer or Technician...


People will always need food, clothing, and clean drinking water to survive.

Biological and Agricultural engineers work with nature
and natural materials to help people live better.

Increasing world populations are adding to pollution problems.
Bio & Ag engineers are best at solving these types of problems.

Due to the scope of this engineering field
it presents a variety of job and career paths.

It's one degree... with many hats

Biological engineers play a strong part in promoting
environmental stewardship and making our lives more sustainable.

This kind of engineering involves multi-disciplinary work.

Engineering involves problem solving and creative thinking and
the tools of the trade are science and technology.

Both engineers and technicians are needed today and will be
increasingly needed in the future.

Nature is beautiful... to view, to watch and to work with.

Bio-based engineering pays well in terms of salary and job satisfaction.

This engineering fits personalities who like to be on the go with high-energy.

Engineering is practiced throughout the U.S. and around the world,
and offers job security and mobility.

Discoveries in the life-sciences are solving many of today's problems. Biological & Agricultural engineers use applied engineering technologies that are "Bringing Engineering to Life"

Science and technology are considered the portal to tomorrow
and someone will be engineering it. Why not you!