Engineering 



Engineers provide technical 

 expertise and professional 

 engineering services necessary in 

 the efficient resource management 

 of our National Forests. Presently 

 there are approximately 1,200 

 engineers in the Forest Service of 

 which about 1,000 are in civil 

 engineering; the remainder are in 

 agricultural, electrical, industrial, 

 and mechanical engineering. 



Forest Service engineers are 

 engaged in many diversified 

 activities which contribute 

 significantly to the development and 

 utilization of the National Forests. 

 Civil engineers work extensively in 

 the areas of systems planning, 

 design, and construction for facilities 

 such as roads, bridges, buildings, 

 water supply, and waste treatment 

 systems. There are also 

 opportunities for engineers to 

 specialize in systems engineering, 

 computer technology, and 

 geometronics. In addition, many civil 

 engineers, land surveyors, and 

 cartographers are becoming 

 engaged in a diversified surveying 

 program which includes engineering 

 surveying, cartography, land 

 surveying, and photogrammetric 

 surveying, as well as the sub- 

 specialties of topographic mapping 

 and control surveying. 



Mechanical and agricultural 

 engineers work in the fields of 

 equipment development and 

 management. They may specialize in 

 areas of testing, selection, and use of 

 mechanical equipment for fire 

 prevention and control, chemical 

 distribution, brush cutting, tree 

 planting, timber harvesting, and 

 construction and maintenance of 

 equipment used in Forest Service 

 resource management operations. 

 Equipment required to perform 

 certain jobs is evaluated and new 

 equipment developed when 



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Engineers surveying for a new road in 

 Grand Mesa National Forest, Colorado. 

 The layout of this road was done from 

 aerial photographs using the latest 

 photogrammetric techniques. 



commercial equipment is not 

 available or cannot be modified for 

 use. 



The large and rapidly changing field 

 of communications is one where 

 Forest Service electronic and 

 electrical engineers find challenging 

 careers. Electrical engineers are 

 engaged in designing of remote 

 telephone systems, microwave 

 systems, electrical transmission and 

 distribution, and in analyzing private, 

 State, and industry use requests 

 involving power line and water power 

 requirements on National Forests. 



Increasingly, the problems faced by 

 Forest Service engineers have more 

 immediate impact upon people than 

 in previous years. Public opinion 

 must be considered and many other 

 diverse parameters analyzed. This 

 calls for imagination and ingenuity 

 and requires a new dimension in 

 engineering— a greater use of team 

 skills, interpersonal behavior skills, 

 and the concept of multidiscipline 

 teams. The engineer in the Forest 

 Service is part of a team made up of 

 many disciplines— landscape 

 architects, biologists, geologists, 

 foresters, business management 

 specialists, and ecologists. All of 

 these disciplines work toward the 

 solution of resource-oriented 

 management problems. 



Qualification Requirements 



The preferred qualification standard 

 for entrance-level professional 

 engineer positions is the successful 

 completion of a full 4-year 

 professional engineering curriculum 

 leading to a bachelor's (or higher) 

 degree in engineering in an 

 accredited college or university. 

 Candidates may also qualify if they 

 have 4 years of college-level 

 education, training, and/or technical 

 experience that furnished (1) a 

 thorough knowledge of the physical 

 and mathematical sciences 

 underlying professional engineering, 

 and (2) a good understanding, both 

 theoretical and practical, of the 

 engineering sciences and techniques 

 and their applications to one of the 

 branches of engineering. (The 

 knowledge and understanding 

 gained must be equivalent to that 

 provided by a full 4-year professional 

 engineering curriculum as described 

 in the basic requirement.) 



Graduate study, advanced degrees, 

 or professional experience will 

 qualify engineering candidates for 

 employment at higher levels. 



