Everyday Engineering
The new year is here. To help classrooms get into gear, the STEM Careers Coalition is giving students the tools to build their best year yet, with real-world engineering investigations that support hands-on skill-building and career exploration.

Engineering in STEM
In Celebration of Engineer's Week, the Discovery Education STEM Careers Coalition (SCC) has released a curated collection to spotlight Engineering professionals in STEM. Follow along as the SCC demonstrates how you can introduce your students to STEM with over 200 resources designed to uncover students' STEM skills to activate future solution seekers. Our exciting content includes resources ranging from hands-on student activations and lessons to the extensive database of career profiles and family activities.
Spotlight On Engineering Careers
Introduce students to exciting engineering-related careers with these curated profiles. Students can go on the job with real professionals working in a wide variety of industries.

Microsoft
Minecraft Gaming Engineer
Gaming Engineers are dedicated to improving the consumer’s gaming experience through the nitty-gritty coding that goes into a game’s engine. They collaborate with a large team and are expert communicators when it comes to tackling challenges.

American Society of Civil Engineering
Humanitarian Engineer
Humanitarian Engineers use their expert knowledge of engineering and strong communication skills to help others understand complex scientific and mathematical concepts. They are instrumental in bridging the gap between abstract ideas and real-world engineering applications.

ASME
Distributed Energy Resources Engineers
Distributed Energy Resources Engineers innovate better ways for utility companies to supply power to communities and generate power from those communities. They are mechanical engineers who specialize in the generation and distribution of energy, collaborating across industries to power communities.

ASCE
Renewable Energy Engineer
Renewable Energy Engineers are always looking for new ways of producing energy from sustainable sources. They find ways to use sunlight, wind, water, and geothermal energy to reduce the environmental impacts of energy production.

Nevada Gold Mines
Environmental Engineer
Environmental engineers use specialized understanding of science and mathematics to address environmental problems such as pollution, climate change, the spread of disease, and threats to wildlife species. They plan and conduct investigations of environmental issues and draft reports on their findings.

Keysight Technologies
R&D Software Engineer
R&D Software Engineers combine creativity and technology skills working on innovative software that allows businesses to maximize success. They collaborate with other teams and develop tools that can be used to test and improve existing software.

Stanley Black & Decker
Reliability Engineer
Reliability Engineers provide the tools and innovative solutions needed in the manufacturing process to ensure that the products produced meet and exceed customer expectations. Reliability Engineers act on behalf of the customer throughout the process, collaborating across a wide variety of departments.

Boeing
Structural Stress Engineer
Stress Engineers play a key role in maintaining the safety of air travel by inspecting aircrafts to make sure that all parts are operating correctly. They expertly detect any stresses or strains in each individual part throughout the aircraft, from massive plane wings all the way down to plastic utensils for commercial flights.

Boeing
Visualization Engineer
Visualization Engineers create digital models (or Visualizations) of physical systems or events that can be analyzed in science and engineering. They support problem-solving and abstract thinking with precise simulations created from computer-aided design software, Virtual Reality and other advanced tech.

ASCE
Water Quality Engineer
Water Quality Engineers use a specialized understanding of science and mathematics to address environmental problems related to water such as pollution, water treatment, and access. They study the ways industrial and residential water treatment and irrigation systems interact with natural processes.

Stanley Black & Decker
Electro-Mechanical Engineer
Electro-Mechanical Engineers are go-to experts within companies that make and use electrical and mechanical products, like robots, computer hardware, and power tools. Their creativity and problem-solving skills support everything from design to manufacture.

Procter & Gamble
Senior IT Director
IT Senior Directors tackle real-world tech challenges by combining expert understanding of new technologies and leadership skills needed to apply business strategies to tech issues. They oversee the Information Technology department within an organization.

AES
Solar Engineer
Solar Engineers oversee the scientific process involved in harnessing the sun's energy to power homes, businesses, and industry. They combine a variety of STEM skills with leadership and problem-solving to supervise the design, installation, and monitoring of solar energy systems.

Arconic Foundation
Environmental Health and Safety Engineer
Health & Safety Coordinators manage the safety and wellbeing of employees working in industrial manufacturing facilities. They use their strong interpersonal and communication skills to ensure that all employees’ health and safety needs are met through the use of rigorous precautions and standards.

Chevron
Facilities Engineer
Facilities engineers are the masterminds who oversee all the essential aspects of maintaining a facility, whether for planning new projects or improving existing facilities. They ensure optimal facility operations by designing, constructing, and managing all infrastructure components.

Chevron
Petroleum Drilling Engineer
Petroleum Drilling Engineers are the scientists who explore below Earth for the best places to find oil and natural gas using criteria such as the efficiency of retrieval, safety, and profitability of deposit. They will often specialize in an aspect of drilling operations such as reservoir engineering, drilling engineering, completions engineering, and production engineering.

Microsoft
Software Engineer
Software Engineers apply the principles of engineering to computer science to create software that powers computers and many other everyday electronic devices. Their expertise in programming languages offers many career opportunities developing apps, video games, social media and more.

ASME
Engineering Project Manager
Engineering Project Managers enable Mechanical Engineers, Civil Engineers, and Electrical Engineers to collaborate on solutions for strengthening natural gas and oil infrastructure. They are skilled problem-solvers with engineering knowledge who love taking things apart and putting them back together again.

Boeing
Product Design and Analysis Engineer
Product Design and Analysis Engineers thoroughly investigate products to assess how they have performed throughout their lifecycles, before determining potential improvements that could be made. Using the power of holistic assessment, they help optimize future designs and functionality.

Boeing
Mechanical Engineer
Mechanical Engineers help solve difficult abstract problems with practical real-world solutions that will run safely, efficiently, and reliably. Touching on countless aspects of our daily lives, from the movement of machines to the human body itself, this is one of the most diverse fields of engineering.

Chevron
Design Engineer
Design engineers are visionary planners who develop innovative solutions to problems using technical knowledge, design skills, and mathematical expertise. They use computers extensively for design and prototype, and can be found in a range of sectors solving problems for both the long-term and the day-to-day.

Arconic Foundation
Process Engineer
Process Engineers are leadership-oriented professionals who combine business management skills with knowledge of multiple fields of science and mathematics, including Chemistry, Thermodynamics, and Physics. They design systems that help factories and plants maximize the efficient production of goods.
Hands-On Engineering Activities for Classrooms
Explore timely and relevant ways to connect engineering to students’ everyday lives with flexible, easy-to-implement activities. Spark creativity and collaboration in any learning environment.

Health
Product Health
Students will reevaluate the consumer packaged goods in their everyday lives through the eyes of a Product Design Engineer. They will collaborate to solve a need in the marketplace using the design thinking process, then complete a SWOT analysis on their product idea.

Communities
Sustainable Innovation
Students will consider the potential benefits and risks of autonomous vehicles using a mechanical engineering lens. They will identify characteristics of community sustainability to help design their own proposal for implementing autonomous vehicles locally.

Learning
Video Game Design
Students use the ever-popular world of video games to explore computational thinking and diversity. They will create custom-designed video game characters in their image, then develop their own original code to create some cool character movements.
Featured Engineering Employee Activities
Bring real-world career paths to life in the classroom with engineering-related activities that can be used to facilitate a STEM Careers Coalition Volunteer Visit.

Consumer Packaged Goods
CPG Innovations
Take a closer look at the consumer packaged goods (CPGs) pervading students’ lives. After exploring the various types of materials used in CPGs, students will design a product of their own that is packaged in a way that is both sustainable and profitable.

Technology
Testing the Code
Demonstrate to students how computers “think” using sets of precise detailed instructions. Students can have some fun learning about the power of coding by performing quality assurance testing for the creation of an imaginary computer game.

Oil and Natural Gas
Energy Engineers
Chemical energy powers most of our daily lives, but students may need a refresher on the underlying concept of energy itself. Enlighten students about practical uses of energy by having them simulate an interview for a petroleum engineer internship.

Energy
Oil Pull
Students will investigate the science that is used to extract oil from the earth and pump it to the surface for human use. They will learn about the viscosity of liquids and how this affects the efficiency of a pump, before drafting a formal hypothesis based on their findings.

Energy
Sharing Sunlight
Explore the exciting possibilities of solar energy as students learn how sunlight is converted into electricity for everyday use. Students will take on a design challenge in which they consider whether solar energy could be transferred from sunny places to colder climates.
Explore Engineering as A Family
Take advantage of downtime at home with engineering-related activities for the whole family. Find fun ways to engage students in project-based learning and self-guided investigation.

General
Structural Strength
Erect an earthquake-resistant homemade structure out of household materials, then test the durability of what you built by shaking things up!

Learning
DIY Challenge
Think outside-the-box as a team by researching a topic that has special meaning to your family, then turn what you learned into a fun new game.

Exploration and Discovery
Engineering, Nature Style! Design Challenge
Nature acts as an inspiration for many designs and innovations. One example is how airplanes have taken the shape of birds.

Communities
Geodesic-Inspired Dome Design Challenge
Practice essential design and management skills as a family by crafting a neat dome structure in your home built out of recycled paper products.

Learning
Playing Card Programming Design Challenge
Bring the power of programming to life around the house with a fun activity that combines creative storytelling and computational thinking.