Automotive engineering is a career that concentrates on using advancements in technology to improve the safety, effectiveness, and conservation of fuel. It can be well paying depending on the size of the company that you work for.

Automotive engineering deals with all types of automobiles, including cars, trucks, vans, semi trucks, and all sorts of vehicles, not just cars. Automotive engineers try to come up with new ideas to improve older systems that are used in automobiles. By improving these older systems using new available technology automotive engineers improve the safety, and effectiveness of our vehicles.

To enter into the field of automotive engineering generally companies are looking for candidates that have received bachelor's degrees in engineering, and have had experience as a lab assistant or an engineering technician. It is also helpful to have had past experience working with automobiles, so that you have some idea about the parts, and how the automobile operates and runs. High school courses in engineering like the one I'm writing this for are also recognized as an excellent starting block for an engineering career.

When you start out as an automotive engineer in the state of Wisconsin the average salary that you would receive is thirty five thousand to forty three thousand dollars a year. In Wisconsin the average salary for all engineers is thirty six thousand to fifty three thousand dollars a year. The national average salary for automotive engineers is thirty nine thousand to fifty seven thousand dollars a year.

Automotive engineers that stay in the field do have advancement opportunities just like the ones available in other occupations. With gained experience automotive engineers may be promoted to project engineers who would be in charge of organizing other engineers ideas along with their own, and not just responsible for coming up with new ideas. Automotive engineers may also climb the ladder and become senior engineers, department engineers, plant managers, production managers, vice presidents, and consulting engineers. These are all very important jobs or roles and with experience and a good attitude any engineer can make his or her way up the ladder.

Automotive engineering is a career that I am interested in looking into further and more in depth. The field interests me because of its hands on guess and check methods that I enjoy using. I also am interested in cars and their systems and would enjoy learning about and perhaps advancing them to push the industry and technology along farther and farther.