Agricultural engineering is expected to grow by 5% from 2012 to 2022. They are pursuing new areas related to agriculture such as high-tech applications to agricultural products, water resource management, and alternative energies.
The main thing that interested me about agricultural engineering was that they get to sometimes work outside with plants and animals while still creating new ways to make machines more environmentally friendly. What motivated me to pursue researching an agricultural engineer was that all the courses that agricultural engineers take are all things that I am interested in.
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As you can see from the chart above, agricultural engineering has the least number of engineers working for their industry. This is mainly because of the specific abilities that an agricultural engineer needs to possess, which makes it harder to find people willing to learn about multiple things.