Saturday, June 27, 2015

Applied Science

What Does a Person with a Diploma in Applied Science Do ?

According to Wikipedia applied science is a discipline of science that applies existing scientific knowledge to develop more practical applications, like technology or inventions.

Within natural science, disciplines that are basic science, also called pure science, develop information to predict and perhaps explain—thus somehow understand—phenomena in the natural world. Applied science applies science to real world practice. This includes a broad range of science fields from Engineering to Child Care.

Engineering sciences include for example: thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, kinematics, electromagnetism, materials science, earth sciences, engineering physics, and many others.

Medical sciences, for instance medical microbiology and its clinical virology, are applied sciences that apply biology toward medical knowledge and inventions, but not necessarily medical technology, whose development is more specifically biomedicine or biomedical engineering.

Applied science can also apply formal science, such as statistics and probability theory, as in epidemiology. Genetic epidemiology is an applied science applying both biological and statistical methods. 

Fields of Applied Science :

Agronomy – science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, feed, fiber, and reclamation.

Animal husbandry – agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.

Forensic science – application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or a civil action.


Health science – application of science, technology, engineering or mathematics to the delivery of healthcare

Environmental science – multidisciplinary academic field that integrates physical, biological and information sciences to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems.

Applied physics – physics intended for a particular technological or practical use. It is usually considered as a bridge between "pure" physics and engineering.

Applied mathematics – branch of mathematics concerned with mathematical methods that are typically used in science, engineering, business, and industry. Thus, "applied mathematics" is a mathematical science with specialized knowledge.

Microtechnology – technology with features near one micrometre (one millionth of a metre, or 10−6 metre, or 1μm).


Military science – study of the technique, psychology, practice and other phenomena which constitute war and armed conflict.

Applied linguistics – interdisciplinary field of study that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems.


Management – getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively.

Archaeology – study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes.


Architecture – process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art.

These are just some of fields in applied science that we can work in. You can find more informations about all the fields in Wikipedia. I would definitely want to find a job in forensic science field. So basically, a person with a diploma in applied science will work in science fields that involving technology and inventions.

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