In the book The Giver they mention assignments and I wanted to know more information on the Engineer assignment.

The assignment itself is not really detailed, but we do know a little bit about what engineers in the community do as a result of other conversations that go on in the book.

We know that one of Jonas's father's friends was an engineer who designed a bridge there in the community, so that indicates that engineers have some or most of the same duties in this community as in any other. They would be...

The assignment itself is not really detailed, but we do know a little bit about what engineers in the community do as a result of other conversations that go on in the book.

We know that one of Jonas's father's friends was an engineer who designed a bridge there in the community, so that indicates that engineers have some or most of the same duties in this community as in any other. They would be responsible for creating the plans for buildings and infrastructure. Although the assignment of Engineer is not specifically mentioned in regards to Benjamin, in Ch. 7the Council of Elders "describes this year's group [of twelves] and its variety of personalities..." and in doing this they talk about a boy with "unusual scientific aptitude" and Jonas assumes,

"Probably the one with scientific aptitude was Benjamin, the male who had devised new, important equipment for the Rehabilitation Center" (Ch.7).

This falls in line with the qualities one would need for being an Engineer and seems to describe some of the duties one in that a assignment would need to do.

We also know that the community has genetic engineers who they call genetic scientists. We learn of them in Ch. 12 when Jonas and the Giver are talking about the community no longer having color. The Giver explains that when they went to Sameness they gave up color, and that "hair like Fiona's must drive them [the genetic scientists] crazy." In our world the duties that the Giver describes their genetic scientists having are the duties of our genetic engineers, so you could actually use them as an example of engineers as well. In Jonas's society they are responsible for making everything look the same by manipulating their genes.