Overall employment opportunities in engineering are expected to grow as fast as the national average of all jobs through 2014 (nine to 17 percent). Engineers have traditionally been concentrated in slow-growing manufacturing industries in which they will continue to be needed to design, build, test and improve manufactured products. However, increasing employment of engineers in faster growing service industries should generate most of the employment growth. Overall job opportunities in engineering are expected to be favorable as the number of engineering graduates should be in rough balance with the number of job openings over this period. However, job outlook varies by specialty.

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