Many industries employ mechanical engineers; a few industries and the type of systems MEs design are listed below. Automotive • Combustion • Engines, transmissions • Suspensions Aerospace (w/ aerospace engineers) • Control systems • Heat transfer in turbines • Fluid mechanics (internal & external) Biomedical (w/ physicians) • Bio-mechanics – prosthesis • Flow and transport in vivo Computers (w/ computer engineers) • Heat transfer • Packaging of components & systems Construction (w/ civil engineers) • Heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) • Stress analysis Electrical power generation (w/ electrical engineers) • Steam power cycles - heat and work • Mechanical design of turbines, generators Petrochemicals (w/ chemical, petroleum engineers) • Oil drilling - stress, fluid flow, structures • Design of refineries - piping, pressure vessels Robotics (w/ electrical engineers) • Mechanical design of actu