Students interested in engineering in New York City have many options, including a school consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best undergraduate institutions at Cooper Union’s School of Engineering. A range of engineering specialties is offered at Columbia University’s The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, which is also the center for 10 professional organizations, such as the Center for Advanced Technology and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute.
The engineering field in New York State is expected show stable growth of 1.7 percent over the next six years, with specialized fields showing faster growth, according to the New York State Department of Labor. The state had 118,620 total engineering jobs in 2002, and by 2012 that number is expected to increase to 120,590 jobs, about 200 jobs annually. The same employment report predicted 2,510 openings by 2012. Specialty engineering fields are expected to experience rapid growth in New York in the same time period, with biomedical engineers expected to increase 15.6 percent, environmental engineer technicians by 17.7 percent and environmental engineers by 24.3 percent.
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