# Science / Engineering Careers with a physical component.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-engineering-careers-with-a-physical-component/579911>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 27, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-engineering-careers-with-a-physical-component/579911 "2011-04-27T16:27:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-engineering-careers-with-a-physical-component/579911/21 "2011-04-29T11:17:37Z")

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A friend of mine in an engineer working for a major company in Europe helping to design rolling stock for the railways.  
She has to do on site inspections and crawl about, or peer under trains on a fairly regular basis.

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