Thermal Engineering is all about heating and cooling systems and transferring energy to the right places. This can include things like fluid mechanics, heat transfers, ventilation and conditioning and also the operation of vehicles.

Insulation is a key part of thermal engineering and it minimises the loss of heat, while a software engineer has to find a way to prevent overheating in machines. Almost every machine will have some sort of cooling or heating system, and thermal engineering is at the heart of these systems.

A lot of scientific knowledge is important if you want to be a successful software engineer because it is vital that you understand the optimum temperature for a certain machine. Software engineering is certainly a broad area of engineering, and it can open an individual out to various opportunities, allowing them to work on a wide range of machines.