Packaging

Packaging engineering, also known as packaging technology and packaging science, is a broad topic that deals with design conceptualization to product placement. It involves all steps along the manufacturing process and is taken into account for every product. Whether or not this is considered an engineering major, it is one the main fields here at Michigan State. It seems like packaging is a pointless major and that there is not a high demand for it, but with every company also comes its packaging. It is very under looked because although an inch more of cardboard does not mean much for one product, when hundreds of thousands of products are being packaged, the inch per package adds up. It can save companies a lot of money just based on how they package things and because of this, every company is adapting to them. It does not seem like a hard job to package something but finding out the most limited material needed to package a product can become difficult and it is a crucial part of a business. Packaging is a major with high demand because not many people know of the profession. The only reason I heard of it myself was because our campus has an entire building dedicated for packaging majors and when I realized how successful packaging majors are out of college it began to interest me. It still has the same concept of engineering because it involves putting things together but it requires less math credit and it is what our school is known for. I used to be completely undecided in which path of engineering I want to pursue but after researching this field, I may be leaning toward it as of now.

-Dominic W.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packaging_engineering
• http://www1.salary.com/Packaging-Engineer-I-Salary.html
• http://www.packaging.msu.edu/