PES DESCRIPTIONS

Chemical Engineering:

Planning, development, evaluation and operation of chemical, biochemical or physical plants and processes. Changes in composition, energy content, state of aggregation of materials, forces that act on matter, and relationships are examined and new and conventional chemical materials, products and processes are produced and/or manufactured.

It includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluating or operation of chemical plants and petroleum refineries, pollution control systems, biochemical processes, plastics, pharmaceuticals, fibers; analysis of chemical reactions that take place in mixtures; determination of methodologies for the systematic design, control and analysis of processes, evaluating economics, safety, etc.

Within the chemical engineering discipline, there are several specialties within the scope of this work; a partial listing follows:

Refining Pharmaceuticals Ceramics Environmental Control & Cleanup Petrochemicals

Textiles Other Chemical Engineering Specialities not listed in the "Services not Included Paragraph

Food Pulp and Paper Biotechnology Safety engineering Electronic Components & Chemicals

Civil Engineering:

Planning, evaluation and constructed infrastructure of facilities and buildings, transportation systems, water, earthworks, and other structures.

It includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluation, and operations of bridges, dams, airports, highways, transportation systems, large buildings, power generating plants, sewage systems, water resources and supply, waste treatment facilities, soil, rock, etc. It also includes the manufacture, production, furnishing, construction, alteration, repair, processing or assembling of vessels, aircraft, or other kinds of personal property, including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning.

Within the civil engineering discipline, there are several specialties within the scope of this work; a partial listing follows:

Electrical Engineering:

Planning, design, development, evaluation and operation of electrical principles, models and processes.

It includes, but is not limited to, the design, fabrication, measurement and operation of electrical devices, equipment and systems (e.g., signal processing; telecommunication; sensors, microwave, and image processing; micro-fabrication; energy systems and control; micro- and nano-electronics; plasma processing; laser and photonics; satellites, missiles and guidance systems, space vehicles, fiber optics, robotics, etc.).

Within the electrical engineering discipline, there are several specialties within the scope of this work; a partial listing follows:

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Circuits and Systems Computer* Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Geoscience & Remote Sensing Information Theory Lasers & Electro-Optics Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Power Electronics Reliability Solid-State Circuits Vehicular Technology Signal Processing on Social Implications of Technology Broadcast Technology

Antennas and Propagation Communications Consumer Electronics Education Engineering Management Industrial Electronics Intelligent Transportation Systems Magnetics Neural Networks Council Power Engineering Robotics & Automation Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Control Systems Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering in Medicine and Biology Industry Applications Instrumentation and Measurement Microwave Theory and Techniques Oceanic Engineering Professional Communication Other Chemical Engineering Specialities not listed in the "Services not Included Paragraph"

Mechanical Engineering:

Planning, development, evaluation and control of systems and components involving the production and transfer of energy and with the conversion of one form of energy to another.

It includes, but is not limited to, planning and evaluation of power plants, analysis of the economical combustion of fuels, conversion of heat energy into mechanical energy, use of mechanical energy to perform useful work, analysis of structures and motion in mechanical systems, and conversion of raw materials into a final product, etc. (e.g., thermodynamics, mechanics, fluid mechanics, jets, rocket engines, internal combustion engines, steam and gas turbines, continuum mechanics, dynamic systems, dynamics fluid mechanics, heat transfer, manufacturing, materials, solid mechanics, reactors, etc.).

ASME Heat Transfer/K16 Applied Mechanics Dynamic Systems and Control Fluids Engineering Heat Transfer International Gas Turbine Materials Noise Control and Acoustics Ocean Engineering Plant Engineering and Maintenance, Process Industries Solar Energy Textile Engineering Tribology Advanced Energy Systems Bioengineering

Electrical and Electronic Packaging Fluids Power Systems and Technology Systems Information Storage and Processing Systems Manufacturing Engineering Management Materials Handling Engineering Non-Destructive Evaluation Engineering Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Other Chemical Engineering Specialities not listed in the "Services not included Paragraph"

Aerospace Engineering Design Engineering* Environmental Engineering* Fuels and Combustion Technologies Internal Combustion Engine Microchannel flow and heat transfer Nuclear Engineering Petroleum Pressure Vessels and Piping Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Technology and Society Solid Waste Processing Power Rail Transportation

The following non-inclusive list represents a sampling of the types of engineering tasks contemplated:

• Acquisition and life cycle management
• Analysis of program goals, mission, objectives, performance
• Assessment Support
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)
• Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
• Computer Aided Management (CAM)
• Concept development
• D&D (decontamination and decommissioning)
• Demonstration and Validation
• Design/Specifications
• Documentation and Information Dissemination
• Economic/Business case analysis
• Economic impact evaluations
• Education/training
• Environmental control for electrical units (e.g., cooling units)
• Forensic engineering
• Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)
• Information services (studies, impact statements, program development, project documentation, data collection, data analysis/evaluation, etc.)
• Instrumentation
• Integration
• Investigative Engineering Service
• Life Cycle Costing
• Logistics
• Long-term Reliability and Maintainability
• Migration Strategy
• National Academy of Sciences studies
• O&M (operation and maintenance)
• Operations Research (Non R&D)
• Permitting and Licensing
• Plan, organize, establish, implement, manage, maintain, upgrade and control of technical systems
• Privatization
• Program and Project management
• Prototype development and first article(s) production
• Radar/Sonar
• Regulatory compliance support
• Reliability and Maintainability Analysis
• Reverse engineering
• Signal processing
• Simulation and modeling
• Site development
• Source data development (forward engineering hardware and software systems)
• Source data validation (existing hardware and software systems)
• Special projects and studies
• Statistical analysis
• Support services
• Systems engineering data base development, maintenance, and analysis
• Technical analysis
• Technical and management support
• Technical writing/editorial support
• T&E (test and evaluation) of products and systems