Career in Textile Engineering

TEXTILE:
The term 'textile' is from Latin verb “texere” means – to weave. According to the definition “textile” is applied any manufacture based on the conversion of fiber or filament into yarn and yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into clothes by assembling fabrics characterized by flexibility and fineness. Fabric refers to any material made through weaving, knitting, spreading, crocheting, or bonding that may be used in production of further garments or cloth.

Now a days textiles are everywhere from hat to socks, bed sheets to carpeting, draperies to sanitary napkin, shoes, medical and healthcare , agriculture, horticulture , suitcase to automobile coating, , tents and nets, from umbrella to parachutes, lightweight fibers for airplane wings etc.  Textiles even make it into space as the lining of space shuttle cargo holds, shuttle space suit used by astronauts. 

Textile Engineering:  
Textile Engineering is the science that deals with all activities and methods which are involved in the process of textile manufacturing.
It combines the principles, laws, and scientific techniques of engineering with specific knowledge of textile equipment and processes utilized for development and manufacturing the textile products. This field of engineering draws inputs from various other branches of engineering like material, chemical, instrumentation, computer, structural, electronic and mechanical engineering. To produce desired textile products it also needs to make interaction of materials with machines and man, safety and health, energy conservation, and waste and pollution control. There is wide scope for research in this area as the industry demands need to improve currently available products and develop new ones. 

What Do The Textile Engineers Do?
Mainly textile engineers do design, develop and maintain the processes, equipment and procedures that create textile products. Beside that they also involve in production control and supervision, product development, quality control, research and development, technical sales and services, and corporate management in this field to gain the goal of textile industry.

Key Features of Textile Engineers:
Engineers need to be creative, inquisitive, analytical and detail-oriented. They should communicate well and be able to work as part of a team. Engineers should expect technological change to alter the nature of their work many times throughout a career. The most successful are willing to keep pace with these changes.

How To Become A Textile Engineer?
A textile engineer who works in the textile industry or in textile production has to undergo a standard degree program. In Bangladesh after S.S.C. one can attend 4 years diploma program in Technical Institutes. After H.S.C. one can attend B.Sc. in Textile Engineering or Textile Management, Fashion & Design or Merchandising program in Textile or Fashion College, Institute or University. After completing these degrees they can also attend M. Sc. in Textile Engineering, MBA in Textile Management and Business, MBA in Textiles, MBA in Merchandising.
These standard degree includes,
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• Diploma in Textile Engineering
• B.Sc. in Textile Engineering:

1. Yarn Manufacturing
2. Fabric Manufacturing
3. Wet Processing
4. Apparel Manufacturing
5. Knitwear Manufacture & Technology
6. Textile Technology & Management
7. Industrial Production Engineering
8. Machine Design & Maintenance
9. Fashion Design & Technology

• M.Sc. in Textile Engineering:

1. Advance Yarn Manufacturing Processes
2. Advance Fabric Manufacturing Process
3. Advance Textile Chemistry & Wet Processing
4. Apparel Manufacturing Processes
5. Technical Textile
6. Effluent Treatment & Environment Engineering

• MBA in Textile:

1. MBA in Apparel Merchandising
2. MBA in Textile 

• PhD in  

1. Polymer
2. Textile
3. Fiber Engineering

The course study involves classes in other aspects of engineering, including material, chemical, mechanical, electrical, industrial, computer, These modules are intended to strengthen and solidify the basic concepts of engineering for students. This coursework will help prepare students to better understand the technical aspects of the field, as they study advanced topics in textile production.

What To Study?
Basic Science and Math:
Including physics, chemistry, calculus, probability & Statistics, computer, programming, engineering drawing.

Engineering:

• Fiber, Yarn, Fabric, Chemical, Apparel Engineering
• Yarn, Weave, Knit and Nonwovens Engineering
• Composite Materials
• Engineering Statics and Dynamics
• Production Control
• Engineering Design
• Computer Aided Design
• Fashion Designing

Business:

• Management Principles
• Supply Chain Management
• Merchandising
• Financial Accounting
• Engineering Economics

More Advance:
Advanced programs in textile engineering focus on textile chemical technology and fiber science. Education in this field usually also involves training in plant designing, wet process designing, dyeing, and printing. A career offers employment opportunities in product research and development, corporate management and supervision, process engineering, and sales.

Higher Study on Special Textile:

1. Technical Textiles
2. Functional Textiles
3. Smart Textiles
4. Protection and safety-related textiles
5. Fiber science technology
6. Textile chemical technology
7. Coloration Technology
8. Yarn and Non-woven Technology
9. Textile Materials and Performance Evaluation
10. Knitting and Knit CAD
11. Weaving and Weave CAD
12. Computer application in textile
13. ETP Plants
14. E Textiles
15. Textile Retailer
16. Material science

Career in Textile Engineering:
There are spacious career opportunities in this field for talented professionals. The industrial knowledge and skills of graduates are highly valued by textile manufacturing companies. Graduates professional from this field are employed in departments of textile plants and companies varying from small to large scale such as planning, production, quality control, sales or marketing or agencies of domestic or abroad companies for textile products and textile machinery, intended in different regions of the country.

After completing the engineering course, the graduates can start there career in any textile industry or textile business sector as,

In Textile Production Sector:

1. Assistant Engineer
2. Quality Control Supervisor
3. Quality Managers
4. Development Engineers
5. Process Engineer
6. Production Managers
7. Lab Officer
8. Dye house Managers
9. Structural Textile Designers
10. Fashion Designer
11. Industrial Engineer
12. Fabric Technologists
13. Work Study Officers
14. Researchers
15. Operations Trainee

  

In Non Production Sectors: 

1.Work Study Officer

2. Commercial Executive

3. Marketing Executive

4. Management Executive

5. Merchandiser

6. Fashion Designer

7. Researchers

8. Operations Trainee

9. Sales Manager

10. Garment Technologists

11. Supply Chain Manager

12. Fashion Merchandisers

13. Garments Merchandiser

14. Buying House Merchandiser

15. Visual Merchandisers

16. Freelancers/Entrepreneurs

17. Textile and Clothing Lecturers and Research Assistants

18. Compliance Officer

In Garment and Textile Organizations:

1. MOT

2. DOT

3. BGMEA

4. BKMEA

5. BTMA

6. BTMC

7. BJMC

8. BIJR

9. BSTI

10. EPZ,

11. BEPZA

12.BTEB

13. IJSC

14. FBCCI

15. EPB

Textile and RMG Sector of Bangladesh:
The Textile sector of Bangladesh has been developing rapidly day by day and this export sector  is flourishing because of our available manpower resource. The contribution of RMG Sector to the National Economy is so remarkable
about 82% of total export earnings come from RMG sector.
From a statistics it’s known that, in FY 2003-04 RMG sector of Bangladesh earned US$ 10,699.80 million in FY 2007-08 , in FY 2008-09 the value was US$ 12.35 billion, in FY 2013-14 the value was $24.49billion, in FY 2014-15 the value was $25.491 billion,
in FY 2015-16 the value stands at $28.09 billion.

WRITTEN BY
 Md. Masudur Rahman
Department of Textile Engineering
4th Batch
National Institute of Textile Engineering and Research (NITER)
masudbdasia@gmail.com

List of Textile Engineering and Fashion Designing 

School Cellege Institute and Universities of Bangladesh

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