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Welcome to the Personal Webpage of Zachary Voltz!

Aliases include but are not limited to: Gigavoltz, Highvoltage, "Shoes", Z-Money, Orca, and Zach-Attack!

What do Engineers do?

To put it simply, anything manufactured commercailly and/or produced on a large scale, has passed though the hands of an engineer at some point. The entire encompassing area of engineering is staggering. The work an engineer does is extremely variable and depends upon who they work for. They could work for an engineering firm. In this setup the firm, a third party in this case, takes on contracts within their realm of expertise and divide the project into smaller portions. These portions are then distributed to seperate departments, such as the mechanical engineers or the biological engineers to work on. From here each project is assigned to available teams and completed by its members. the main idea is that in this form there are many different engineers, designers, etc. that all interact with each other to complete the firm's contract. In another senario, they might work directly for a manufactoring company, designing products and their systems for the company. Another form is even working as a design auditer for government regulated items such as drug vaults and clean rooms. In short, engineers are very versitile individuals that are involved with many different aspects of everyday life.

Examples of the types of engineers:

Mechanical Engineers
Aerospace Engineers
Industrial Engineers
Biomedical Engineers
Materials Science Engineers
Civil Engineers
Computer Engineers
Chemical Engineers
Architectual Engineers
And more...(around 190 more!)

To put this in terms of an example: one mechanical engineer designs the machines to harvest ore from the ground. Another materials science engineer decides which ratios of the ore to place into a metal alloy. From here another mecanical engineer will use the metal alloy in his design to make a microscope, which will be formed in a factory which has been layed out by an industrial engineer. Granted, there are many more engineers present in this simple example than what I have listed and show, but the idea is the same: engineers are involved with almost everything.

My Area of Interest: Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering

My area of interest is Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. Mechanical Engineering is one of the broadest types of engineering possible, encompasing everything from the basic design of an object to the individual mechanical components and their upkeep. Mechanical engineers use the principles of economics, physics, higher level mathmatics, and material sciences to design and develop effective products for the modern world.

One step up from that would be Aerospace engineers. These guys work with fluid dynamics and gravitational physics to design spaceshuttles and airplanes that can cut through the air and reach their objectives as efficently as possible. They make sure that these things won't rattle apart during take-off and ensure that air resitance works more towards keeping the flying metal tube aloft instead of slowing down its progress. They design satilites and missiles too!

Things that can be done with these degrees:

Rollercoaster designer/Imagineer (Mech)
Educator (both)
NASA Engineer (both)
Boeing shuttle/airplane engineer (both)
Rocket Engineer (Mainly Aero)