Engineering Discipline Definitions

Engineering Discipline Definitions
The contractor shall provide all resources including personnel, management, supplies, services, materials, equipment, facilities and transportation necessary to provide a wide range of professional engineering services as specified in each task order. Services specified in a task order may be performed at the contractor's facilities or the ordering agencies' facilities.

There are four primary disciplines (Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering) in the engineering field and hundreds of sub-disciplines or specialties associated with engineering disciplines. Below is a list of primary engineering disciplines with a partial list of sub-disciplines or specialties contemplated under PES. For specialties asterisked below, "Services Not Included", for limitations on the extent to which the specialty is included.

Chemical Engineering
Planning, development, evaluation and operation of chemical, biochemical or physical plants and processes. Changes in composition, energy content, state of aggregation of materials, forces that act on matter, and relationships are examined and new and conventional chemical materials, products and processes are produced and/or manufactured. It includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluating or operation of chemical plants and petroleum refineries, pollution control systems, biochemical processes, plastics, pharmaceuticals, fibers; analysis of chemical reactions that take place in mixtures; determination of methodologies for the systematic design, control and analysis of processes, evaluating economics, safety, etc. Within the chemical engineering discipline, there are several specialties within the scope of this work; a partial listing follows:

• Refining
• Petrochemicals
• Food
• Pharmaceuticals
• Textiles
• Pulp and Paper
• Ceramics
• Electronic Components & Chemicals
• Biotechnology
• Safety engineering

Other Chemical Engineering Specialties not listed in the "Services not Included"

Civil Engineering
Planning, evaluation and constructed infrastructure of facilities and buildings, transportation systems, water, earthworks, and other structures. It includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluation, and operations of bridges, dams, airports, highways, transportation systems, large buildings, power generating plants, sewage systems, water resources and supply, waste treatment facilities, soil, rock, etc. It also includes the manufacture, production, furnishing, construction, alteration, repair, processing or assembling of vessels, aircraft, or other kinds of personal property, including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning.

Within the civil engineering discipline, there are several specialties within the scope of this work; a partial listing follows:

• Structural* Transportation
• Surveying
  Water resources

Other Civil Engineering Specialties not listed in "Services not Included"

Electrical Engineering
Planning, design, development, evaluation and operation of electrical principles, models and processes. It includes, but is not limited to, the design, fabrication, mpesurement and operation of electrical devices, equipment and systems (e.g., signal processing; telecommunication; sensors, microwave, and image processing; micro-fabrication; energy systems and control; micro- and nano-electronics; plasma processing; laser and photonics; satellites, missiles and guidance systems, space vehicles, fiber optics, robotics, etc.). Within the electrical engineering discipline, there are several specialties within the scope of this work; a partial listing follows:

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Antennas and Propagation Broadcast Technology Circuits and Systems Communications Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Consumer Electronics Control Systems Geoscience & Remote Sensing Education Electromagnetic Compatibility Information Theory Engineering Management Engineering in Medicine and Biology Lasers & Electro-Optics Industrial Electronics Intelligent Transportation Systems

Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Magnetics Industry Applications Power Electronics Neural Networks Council Instrumentation and Mpesurement Reliability Power Engineering Microwave Theory and Techniques Solid-State Circuits Robotics & Automation Oceanic Engineering Vehicular Technology Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Professional Communication Signal Processing on Social Implications of Technology Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Other Electrical Engineering Specialties not listed in the "Services not Included"

Mechanical Engineering
Planning, development, evaluation and control of systems and components involving the production and transfer of energy and with the conversion of one form of energy to another.

It includes, but is not limited to, planning and evaluation of power plants, analysis of the economical combustion of fuels, conversion of heat energy into mechanical energy, use of mechanical energy to perform useful work, analysis of structures and motion in mechanical systems, and conversion of raw materials into a final product, etc. (e.g., thermodynamics, mechanics, fluid mechanics, jets, rocket engines, internal combustion engines, steam and gas turbines, continuum mechanics, dynamic systems, dynamics fluid mechanics, heat transfer, manufacturing, materials, solid mechanics, reactors, etc.).

ASME Heat Transfer/K16 Advanced Energy Systems Aerospace Engineering Applied Mechanics Bioengineering Environmental Engineering* Dynamic Systems and Control Electrical and Electronic Packaging Fuels and Combustion Technologies Fluids Engineering Fluids Power Systems and Technology Systems Internal Combustion Engine Heat Transfer Information Storage and Processing Systems Microchannel flow and heat transfer International Gas Turbine Manufacturing Engineering* Nuclear Engineering Materials Management Petroleum

Noise Control and Acoustics Materials Handling Engineering* Pressure Vessels and Piping Ocean Engineering Non-Destructive Evaluation Engineering Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Plant Engineering and Maintenance Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Technology and Society Process Industries Rail Transportation Solid Waste Processing Solar Energy Power Textile Engineering Tribology

Other Mechanical Engineering Specialties not listed in "Services not Included"

The following non-inclusive list represents a sampling of the types of engineering tasks contemplated:

• Acquisition and life cycle management
• Analysis of program goals, mission, objectives, performance
• Assessment Support
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)
• Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
• Computer Aided Management (CAM)
• Concept development
• D&D (decontamination and decommissioning)
• Demonstration and Validation
• Design/Specifications
• Documentation and Information Dissemination
• Economic/Business case analysis
• Economic impact evaluations
• Education/training
• Environmental control for electrical units (e.g., cooling units)
• Forensic engineering
• Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)
• Information services (studies, impact statements, program development, project documentation, data collection, data analysis/evaluation, etc.)
• Instrumentation
• Integration
• Investigative Engineering Service
• Life Cycle Costing
• Logistics
• Long-term Reliability and Maintainability
• Migration Strategy
• National Academy of Sciences studies
• O&M (operation and maintenance)
• Operations Research (Non R&D)
• Permitting and Licensing
• Plan, organize, establish, implement, manage, maintain, upgrade and control of technical systems
• Privatization
• Program and Project management
• Prototype development and first article(s) production
• Radar/Sonar
• Regulatory compliance support
• Reliability and Maintainability Analysis
• Reverse engineering
• Signal processing
• Simulation and modeling
• Site development
• Source data development (forward engineering hardware and software systems)
• Source data validation (existing hardware and software systems)
• Special projects and studies
• Statistical analysis
• Support services
• Systems engineering data base development, maintenance, and analysis
• Technical analysis
• Technical and management support
• Technical writing/editorial support
• T&E (test and evaluation) of products and systems

*Services Not Included

1. Construction and Architect-Engineering services as set forth in FAR Part 36 (including construction, alteration or repair (including dredging, excavating and painting) of buildings, structures, or other real property).
2. Computer Engineering and Information Technology. Clients interested in computer/software engineering and information technology services are directed to use Northrop Grumman's Information Technology Services Schedule (contract number GS-23F-4522G)
3. Environmental Advisory Services - Please use Northrop Grumman's Environmental Advisory Services Schedule (contract number GS-10F-0178J)
   • Environmental Planning Services & Documentation (i.e., environmental impact statements; endangered species, wetlands, watersheds and other natural resource management plans, studies and consultations; archeological, historic and other cultural resources management plans, studies, and consultations; economic, technical, and risk analyses in support of environmental needs)
   • Environmental compliance services (i.e., environmental compliance audits; compliance management planning; pollution prevention surveys;
   • Environmental/occupational training services specific to environmental planning and environmental compliance as discussed above (i.e., conventional course development and presentation; customized courses to meet specific needs; computer-based interactive course development)
   • Waste management services (i.e., data collection, data development, analyses of comments, regulatory and economic analyses, fpesibility analyses, hazard assessments, exposure assessments, and risk analyses. Examples include, but are not limited to development of waste characterization studies and recommendations for management strategy including identification of recycling options. Assessments might include studies relating to collection and transfer of waste, source reduction, and evaluation of energy/fuel options. Services could include data collection, data development, analyses of comments, regulatory and economic analyses, fpesibility analyses, hazard assessments, exposure assessments and risk analyses.
   • Hazardous materials management advisory services (i.e., furnishing of Material Safety Data Sheets (MDSD) by compact disc, on-line via Internet, mail or facsimile (FAX); reporting and compliance software, hazardous materials tracking software and other related software/services.
   • Telephone advisory services (i.e., telephone assistance with hazardous material spills, poisons, MSDS, and other related services).
4. Foundations and Landscaping Engineering
5. Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) related to buildings, structures, or other real property set forth for Construction and Architect-Engineering services governed by FAR Part 36. Plpese note that HVAC related to the manufacture, production, furnishing, construction, alteration, repair, processing or assembling of vessels, aircraft, or other kinds of personal property IS included and solicited within the scope of PES.
6. Research and Development as set forth in FAR Part 35.
7. Products/materials already solicited under other Federal Supply Service (FSS) Schedule contracts (e.g., information technology, paper, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, laboratory instruments, etc.). However, PES contractors may team across FSS Schedules to provide a total solution to agency requirements.