swati salunkhe career counsellor on a range of emerging options in the field of engineering traditionally engineering has been looked at as a respectable profession and though this field has been around for a very long time it has constantly evolved to offer new specialisations keeping up with the demands of the global job market thus while electronics computers mechanical and it continue to be popular among students at the undergraduate level there are a number of new fields that essentially deal in the applications of these core branches most of these fields are still at a nascent stage in india and are available only at the masters or phd level robotics robotics is a popular choice among aspiring engineers robotic engineering is the science and technology of robots their design manufacture application and structural disposition it is offered at the mtech level in a few colleges some institutes offer it as a course under mechatronicsmechanicalelectronics computer science artificial intelligence closely related to robotics artificial intelligence ai essentially deals in the design and development of mechanisms primarily their personification in machines highlighting language technologies cognitive systems and humancomputer interaction while ai is offered at the mtech level at some institutes it can be studied as a course under robotics knowledge engineeringcomputer science and automation cloud computing cloud computing is a big leap for information technology services this technology is expected to transform the way data is stored and managed conceptually it refers to a model of scalable realtime internetbased information services and resources satisfying the computing needs of users very few colleges offer cloud computing as a specialisation in the btech computer science programme but courses can be pursued independently from training centres across the country also it can be studied as a paper in mtech computer scienceit biomedical engineering taking up biology along with pcm opens up a number of options in the life sciences sector one such field is biomedical engineering it is a revolutionary career path that applies engineering principles to medicine the human body and natural sciences that work to create and support life there are innumerable job opportunities in design and manufacture of therapeutic and surgical devices artificial organs medical imaging systems computer modelling laser techniques etc other biorelated engineering fields include biotechnology food technology agriculture bioinformatics and so on gis and remote sensing another branch that is gaining significance is gis and remote sensing its widespread use is exemplified not only in areas of research and defence but also in everyday life with technologies like google earth gps tracking systems geotagging etc thanks to the infrastructural developments in rural and urban areas civil engineering has witnessed a rise in demand similarly the demand for electronics and electronic and telecommunication engineers too is on the rise due to the changing communication modes the field of mechanical engineering too has managed to retain its demand and supply due to the expansive scope