If you’re considering future careers you might enjoy and you love creating new products, solving problems and using your quantitative and analytical skills to think outside the box, you may have considered going into engineering. Engineering is generally a strong employment field with good job prospects, with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting an addition of 139,300 new jobs between 2016 and 2026 at a median annual wage of $91,010. However, even if you have a general sense that the interesting and lucrative profession of engineering might be for you, it can be hard to decide what specialty to focus in on. If you’re stuck, check out these three unique engineering specialties you might not have heard about.

1. Metallurgical Engineering

If you’ve never been to a metallurgical engineering firm, you might not even know that this field exists, despite its being essential to anything and everything involving metals. Metallurgical …