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According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook, mechanical engineers held about 215,000 jobs in 2002. More than half of the jobs were in manufacturing – mostly in machinery, transportation equipment, computer and electronic products, and fabricated metal products manufacturing industries.
