/sci/ - Science & Math

>Reminder we're all gonna make it
Fuck you man, no we are not. I have tried literally everything to get a job and still have nothing to show for it.

>>10052354
Post your resume

>>10052376
I did in the last thread. Most people's reaction was that it's so good that they thought it was fake. It is very fucking real.

>second year embedded systems engineering
>in top uni in my country

Am I gonna make it?

guys i really want to be an engineer so i can make lots and lots of money. I was never good at math or science in school and to be frank, completely hated those subjects. I've dropped out of community college twice now after failing calculus I three times. But I really want to be an engineer do i have any chance?????? :^)))

>>10052393
you can make it in infrastructure engineering I think. That's where alot the brainlets end up I hear. I consider it to be a pretty respectable field, but some anons like to shit on it.

>>10052323
Any marine engineering anons in here? I'm going for a maritime license at my academy and I just wanted to know what else I could do with my degree

>>10052404
>missing the joke
We are doomed.

>>10052382
Oh it is still you. I hope you make it sunglasses anon but it really does come off as fake. I believe you and want you to succeed.

>>10052420
I wasted over $500 while travelling to a career fair that didn't get me anything.

>>10052451
What industry do you want to work in?

Anyone work as or know about reliability engineering? I have a BS in mechanical engineering and got an interview coming up for that position with a large defense company. Mostly just worried that I won't really be using any of the stuff I learned for my degree since it seems like mostly statistics/data analysis/quality type of work.

>>10052458
I will do literally anything at this point. We are well past pursuing my hopes and dreams.

>>10052475
I can float your resume around UTC if you want.

>>10052485
I'm not sure how I feel about handing out a bunch of really sensitive info on 4chan, but I'm not in a position to say no either.

>>10052496
I am equally sketched out. I'll just find the contact info on Monday and you can just send it to them. That way I don't know you and you don't know me.

>>10052323
>Unless it is Biomedical, Mechatronics, or Systems Engineering your major XE major is not a “meme”. Those three majors are better left to graduate studies and their job markets reflect that suggestion. Additional meme majors include chemical and nuclear engineers
You forgot CE majors, the brainlets that couldnt get a EE major.

>>10052507
Alright, that's fair. My email is sunglasses.engi@gmail.com. I really appreciate it.

>>10052542
Okay, I will send them your censored resume and I will include your that way they can chose to contact you if they are interested.

I have three interviews lined up for this week's career fair at my school. Wish me luck, these will me be my first interviews ever.

Is bioengineering a meme? Not medical related though

>>10052562
yes

>>10052554
Cool, thank you!

>>10052564
What about biotechnological engineering?

>>10052569
All bio XXXX engineering is a meme undergrad.

>>10052580
Why’s that?

>>10052557
Go on Glassdoor and whatever other websites there are and look up each of those companies. Write down every single question that people say they were asked and write down complete responses. Additionally, google "most common interview questions" and "engineering interview questions" and the like. write down answers to all of the reasonable questions. rehearse your answers.

If the interviewer asks you a question that you don't already have an answer prepared for, you didn't prepare well enough.

What is that wonderful smell? Is it freshly crushed hopes and dreams?

If I want to get into biomechanical/medical engineering should I wait til post grad?

>op sez chemE is fucked up
oof
is that just in the US tho?

About resumes: should I say that I know some softwares like autocad, excel etc? If I'm not experienced, what should I do?

>>10052670
This is your first resume you're making isn't it? Just google "engineer resume example" for a good starting point.

>>10052609
Much like aerospace it’s a niche field that gets a somewhat shallow treatment in undergrad. It also suffers from being “sexy” so everyone with cyborg/robot autism and doctor-wannabe syndrome flocks to it, THEN you also take into account that the guys who are legit geniuses at this stuff are willing to work for peanuts to break into the industry and you got a recipe for a real buttfucker of a degree. I fucking laugh at you kids who pick up bioengineering or aerospace on a whim and think you stand even a remote chance of working in your field.

Help, in my country GPA doesn't matter in the bachelor. Just getting your bachelor in three years is an immensive feat in and of itself. How wil i get into a foreign uni for my masters or get a job somewhere else...

>>10052849
Everyone knows that Americans handle out bachelors like toilet paper, they will understand

>>10052849
A lot of american universities have minimum GPAs requirements to get in.

>>10052382
because you are a dumb larping faggot or you are incredibly ugly and autistic irl

there's literally no other way you don't have a job. the only way you can improve that resume is put the awards section last because why the fuck would you have it first, in fact your entire resume is nearly backwards

other than that stupid technicality there is nothing on your stupid fucking resume that should prevent you from getting a job. we can't help you because it doesn't make sense. 20000000000 people with resumes 100x worse than yours get hired every day. there is something wrong with you that isnt pictured in this resume

>>10052867
>>10052871
But will british or american unis accept me if my GPA isn't that high? A lot of my friends are doing there bachelors in 4 years, but I really want to do mine in 3. It's almost in possible to get decent grades if you want to do that.

>>10052882
Why the fuck are you rushing through? A 3.0 or 3.25 is the bare minimum depending on the university. The equivalent of those GPAs is required from foreign students. It is retarded to rush through your program because "it looks impressive." Sorry I wouldn't accept the 2.5 GPA foreigner who finished in three years vs the 3.2 who finished in four year, Rushing through your major is retarded if your GPA will suffer.

are American universities consistent nation-wide with grading? can you expect someone with 3 GPA from X university to be as good as someone with the same GPA but from across the country?

>>10052889
Every brainlet could get a 3.5 if he does it in four years. That's why. If a normal bachelor is designed to be completed in three years and some kid gets an 3.5 by working less and another one does it in three and gets an 3 by studying each fucking day, how would the two compare.

Damn internation academics are fucked. People should get their diplomas because they work and study hard not because they can pay more or stay longer with mommy and daddy.

>>10052911
You are retarded and are only hurting yourself if you goal is to get into an American or British university.

>>10052911
>how would the two compare.
because the GPA is the metric for performance you dunce, not how long it takes you. Where did you ever get the idea that graduating a year early would be good for your career?

>>10052918
>Look frens I took 3 courses this semster and I got an average of 3.7.

Your professor must be really thinking you're the next Einstein

>>10052927
maybe, but if you need a certain minimum GPA, doing your degree fast is going to be worth jackshit if you don't attain that

>>10052922
>>10052918
Didn't know amerimutts were this stoopid

>>10052927
>So it looks like you got a 3.0 at your university...Why should we accept you over our other applicants with higher GPAs?
Well I finished my degree in three years.
>Okay..why did you do that?
Because only the stupid and rich do it in four.
>Oh..well I finished my undergrad degree in four years.
Heh...what are you retarded? I don't want to study here anymore. I don't want to be surrounded by idiots.

>>10052927
Actually, your professor will respect you more for treating your education seriously and taking the time to absorb the material instead of turning in barely passable work. That is the point you know, to actually learn, not just complete some checklist of classes.

>>10052927
What's the alternative 4 courses and a 3.1? At least with you take the 3 courses and get the higher GPA it proves you know more of the material

gadda go fast

>>10052941
>>10052939
What if we made the standard program four years then everyone would get a 3.5?

>>10052911

Generally speaking, companies and schools care how well you know the material, not how long it takes to learn it. I really don't understand why you think taking the time to get a better understanding of coursework is worse than rushing to "prove" yourself or whatever. It's not like they'd know either way, anyways.

>>10052936
If we're so dumb then why do you want to study here? Fuck off third worlder

>>10052323
>meme major
Lrn2meme fgt pls

can I get a software engineering job as an EE with just a bachelor's?

why are you people making this thread on our board now

>>10053301
>can I get a software engineering job as an EE with just a bachelor's?
>just a bachelor's
Yes, why wouldn't you?

>>10053308
I'm not sure, that's why I was asking.

>>10053311
Plenty of EEs become programmers

>>10053301
EE's can get just about any job that requires an ME or a CompE. That doesn't work the other way around though.

>>10053301
You don't even need a degree for that.

>>10053324
>EE's can get just about any job that requires an ME

>>10052382
>GNU Octave
*tips approval*

I want to design ponds. What do?

>>10052323
Fuck. I'm in a combustion class since I thought it would be a cool elective and it's fucking brutal. I know I got roasted on the last exam, and the next exam is coming up on me really fast. This stuff is way harder than I thought it would be though.

Guess if nobody's made me a job offer by the time i plan to graduate this december, I can just drop it and avoid the GPA hit. Sucks to suck, though

>>10053495
If you drop a class right before the exam, won't that count as a failure?

>>10053498
At the uni I go to, you have until late October I believe to withdraw from a class and take a W on your transcript. Doesn't impact your GPA. So I'll have taken 2 out of 3 exams and a final, so I think it'll be pretty clear whether or not I should try and buck it back up.

Just sucks because the next two weeks I'm getting slammed, which isn't helping in the slightest/

>>10053507
I see. Personally, I would just drop the class if it doesn't count towards your degree and employers don't explicitly require or recommend it. Employers prefer projects or work experience anyways. Additionally, you can always teach yourself on the side for free.

>>10052323
Dear /eng/.

Please get the fuck out of /sci/.
Perhaps /g/ or /diy/ will take you in. You are vermin brainlets that should be exterminated.

P. S: Take /med/ and /x/ with you.

Sincerely. /sci/

>>10053979
Y-You too...

>>10052382

what >>10052878
said is right.

you are either LARPing or you've murdered someone or raped some kid and that's preventing you from getting a job.

I'm literally crying as I write this post but I need some advice on my life right now.

>life advice on 4chan

Basically I'm 21 years old and I've been in school since high school but in terms of my degree I'm around 2nd year (??)

Computer engineering student btw.

I go to a shit to midtier Canadian university and I've been embarrassed about my university since I was accepted to the school.

I was rushed to go into university after high school. My last year of high school was pretty stupid and my grades were pretty shit but I was in the IB program and my final results were not bad. I could have gotten into UBC with my IB results but the admission stuff had already passed by then and my parents had insisted I go to university ASAP so I ended up going to a shitty university across the country.

First year of university I thought I would do well because I was prepared for tough work from IB. But a bunch of life drama happened. My girlfriend at the time got raped and I had to deal with the emotional stress of that. She started drinking and doing drugs too and we broke up so that affected me a lot. My grades started to plummet. So not the best start for my university career.

During my 1st year, 2nd semester I only managed to pass Calculus II with a B and failed all my other classes. And I ended up on academic probation (basically a warning. I had to get up to 2.00 gpa or I'm kicked out)

Second Year.
During the summer I basically told myself that I need to fix my life and that there is no reason why I shouldn't have a decent academic career.

Tried really hard the following semester. I got an A in Calculus III and an A in Differential equations. But I've been dropping a lot of courses and I've only been taking ~3 courses every semester and it's still a huge struggle for me. I don't go to class for various stupid reasons.

I've repeated a lot of courses and luckily my university allows the 2nd attempt course to completely write over the 1st attempt GPA.

continued

>>10052323
tfw glad you got a liberal arts degree

>>10054075
>>10054075
>>10054075

>cont

So to date I've taken

Math:
Calculus I: B
Calculus II: B
Calculus III: A
Differential Eqs: A
Linear Algebra: B-
Discrete Maths (TWICE): C-

EE stuff:
Circuits: B+
Digital circuits: B+
Electronics I: C+
Signals and Systems I: F gotta repeat this shit ;_;

CompE stuff:
Programming (C++ split into two courses): C- and A
But I think I'm pretty decent at programming in C++. I've got the core OOP concepts down but some shit about libraries I don't know.

Right now I'm taking
Electronics I again repeating it because I know I can get an A. I fucked up last semester due to autism
Data structures and algorithms
Computer organization

I guess my problem is I'm not confident about my knowledge. I always feel like I need to go back and look at stuff. Not so much when it comes to math because I'm pretty solid on the calculus but.. a lot of the other stuff, especially discrete mathematics in this DSA course.

I really want to take a year off school to focus on just making sure I know my shit and getting my stuff together but I'm also on student loans so I need to stay in school or I have to pay back money although that's not a huge concern...

I have dreams of going to graduate school, maybe studying AI. I really love what I study. But I didn't have a good start and I've just been trying to make up for lost time.

Any help for me friends?

Can someone explain majors and minors to me? I know it's a 75/25 split but is everyone doing it? Do people not do 100%?

>>10054080
Thinking abt taking discrete math, is it hard?

>>10054080
Shit, you're better off than me. 25 year old boomer here, still in junior year after spending years as a /foreversophomore/.
Actually those high school class standings names mean nothing when it comes to college since you have to pay for it vs public 4 year high schools.
Just take your time (but not too much and become a 25 year old boomer still in undergrad like me lol). At least when I finally finished my community college level classes I graduated with an awesome GPA for my associate's (lol) degree 3.7 or 3.8 something. Not the case at the main uni level though cause the damn CC gpa doesn't transfer over and I fucked up last fall and now sitting ugly at 1.8.
Bottom line is we all got our own pace, whether it's the 'expected ' 4 years (good fucking luck with that, like 6 engineering courses per semester? That's kms tier right there) or like me, 7 years since high school and still an undergrad student

>>10054198
If I did it again, I'd probably get an A. But yeah its hard if you aren't used to this kind of mathematics. Its a lot harder than calculus I can say that but it doesn't "look" hard. If that makes sense. Discrete maths teaches you to actually think critically where as calculus is just practice 100s of questions after u gotten the key concepts.

>>10054189
I don't think employers care about a minor, but that is just me. I happened to have finished two minors just because I had switched my major twice.

>>10052382
I think you must be a sperg lord. That and the fact that you need an MS minimum to get hired with that skill set. I did composites manufacturing work, CFD/FEM in python and MATLAB, and wrote a textbook on ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Fluent for our Honors UG Engineering program my first year of grad school. That plus all my research had Northrop Grumman, Lockheed, and Raytheon send me 135k starting offers this month I had told them at each of the interviews that I was still strongly considering finishing my PhD. Northrop and Raytheon said they’d like to continue contact and talk to me after I’m done with my fast tracked PhD in three years.

>doing bachelor in mechatronics
ok guys how fucked i am ?

>>10052323
I've quit my dead-end job last year as a factory worker after years of being unmotivated and am now back in high school in a kind of condensed course. I do 5 years of high school in 2 years (already finished the first year w at least a B- for everything). I'm not interested in a high paying job: i could've gone and done some offshore drilling if i wanted money.

I got back into it bc i heard about neuroprosthetics, but now i see your first point, pertaining a Biomedical Degree being a meme major.
I wanted to slide into neuros by doing a bachelor in biomedical-tech and then get a masters degree for the prosthetics: would this also be considered a bad choice, and if so what do anons recommend to study instead that is related or at least as interesting in the long run?

> Pic related: me after reading my desired major is apparently a meme

>>10054326
Yes, biomedical is fringe. Do something mainstream like Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, or Electrical Engineering, or study to become a technician at a trade school.

>>10053979
Don't you love us anymore?

>>10053979

>>10054304
Doing bachelor in robotics, lmao just roll with it, nobody is going to stop you from doing whatever you want for masters.

>>10052382

I told you in the last thread your problem is getting a human to read your resume. Applying online will rarely pan out. Go to career fairs and industry events and whatnot. Hand your resume to actual people.

>>10053979
take the stick out of your ass m8

>>10054326

What exactly are you interested in about biomedical?

If you want to work on the mechanical part of neuroprosthetics, you study mechanical engineering. If you want to work on the electronics of the part of the neuroprosthetics, you do electrical engineering. If you want to work on the "neuro" part you do biology or neuroscience. Biomedical engineering is a weird hybrid where you only dip your feet into mechanical, electrical, and biology. It is a meme degree because you are a beginner in several different topics. You will be competing with other students with deeper knowledge/skill sets from Mechanical/Electrical/Biology students for the few niche jobs that require just an undergrad degree.

Can someone tell me why biomedical is a meme degree? A lot of people in my country are looking to get into that, is it meme because of a lot of different subjects so you dont really get 'good' at none or what?

>>10054698
>>10054638

>>10054358
I guess i could do something mainstream, i just thought that doing a lot of things for a bachelors degree would pay off when i'd pick a Masters degree following that.

>>10054638
I'm particulalry interested in the interaction and potential new tech concerning everything related to neuroprosthetics, hence why i wanted to do biomed, because of the broad approach. But i get where you're coming from with the dipping part.

I guess i'd have to either go for a mech/neuroscience/chemistry degree and then dip into the other field; whichever's more relevant for what i want to do later on.

Either way: thanks for the responses and insight, this takes a load off my mind
> T-Thanks S-Senpai

>>10054299
How old are you? I'm 21 about to start my junior year, and ideally I wanna be working somewhere like Raytheon or Lockheed. Im about to apply for some of their summer internships.

>>10054535
See >>10052451

>>10054753

Not that guy, but I work at Raytheon in Tucson. Great place to work. Major?

>>10052323
Can someone give me the redpill on BME? I am a HS senior and I was wondering what the job market looked like/if I should major in ChemE and minor in BME to get a BME job

>>10054906
>>10054638
Do you even know what either major entails? Chemical Engineering is mostly process engineering and how to scale chemical reactions. Chemistry is left to the chemistry majors who aren't taught about scalability and processes.

>>10054921
I know that BME entails mixing engineering & biology/medical concepts, but I would like to learn about the job market since according to the OP it is a meme

>>10054928
It is very limited as an undergrad level degree. A graduate degree is typically required for BME. Undergrad BME majors is a very new thing. Jack of all trades and a master of known. There is not enough exposure in either biology or engineering to be able to design medical equipment. Especially when medical equipment has very strict requirements in order to be certifiable and safe.

A quick google search shows that BMEs with just an undergrad typically work as sales engineers for medical companies.

>>10054945
>master of known
seems like im doing ee cheme or stats, thanks

>>10054971
Sorry for the mistake, master of none is what I meant to type but you already know you cheeky cunt. But yes your best bet is getting a strong foundation in specific discipline and then applying that discipline to biomedical engineering/research.

I'm on the final year of CompSci (that is engineering, right? It's called engineer in my country), but I just feel that I haven't learned shit. Anyone else with these feels?

>>10054994
>that is engineering, right?
No. Computer Scientist and Computer Engineer are two different things, at least here in the United States.
>I just feel that I haven't learned shit
CompSci is a meme degree unless you concentrate in something (Data Structures, A.I., Cybersecurity, etc.). Literally everything they teach can be self taught in a month using Internet and developing your own project.

>>10055052

I looked it up and seems like I'll get a Bachelors of engineering when I finish, that should make me "engineer" enough to shit up this thread with my feels, I hope.

>>10054994
>It's called engineer in my country

In what kind of a shithole do you live. If you don't apply physics then it's not engineering.

>>10055071
lmao I am a lurking Physics major, because going to graduate school in Physics seems like an autistic waste of time.

>>10055073

How the fuck does a biochemical engineer apply physics?

>>10054945
>sales engineers

Gross

>>10055071
>that should make me "engineer" enough to shit up this thread with my feels, I hope.
No.

>>>/g/

>>10055081
damn nigga you retarded

>>10052451
>I wasted over $500
Why are smart people so stupid with their money?

>>10055167
I was just waiting for some faggot to post this. That's gas + motel + food + printing costs.

>>10052405
right here friendo

>U.S. Unemployment Rate Drops To 3.7 Percent, Lowest In Nearly 50 Years
How's the job search going?

>>10054865
Im doing ME at UCCS with aero minor right now. I've been pretty bad at professional development because I never really took advice given to me seriously or understood what people meant until about a year ago, now in my 3rd year of undergrad I'm hoping Im not too late.

>>10055321
I got offered a job a couple weeks ago but I have heard absolutely nothing from them in those two weeks.

T-they didn't forget about me... right?

Ok, which one of you did this?

>>10055349
Send an email to follow up with them. Are you retarded?

>>10055359
the guy that offered me a job said it might be a week or two before I get another call, but I'm definitely going to send somebody an angrily worded email about this.

>>10055366
No, don't send an angry email. Send a polite email inquiring to your hiring status and requesting an update,

>>10055366
Sounds like a bad idea to come across as angry if you want a job.

>>10055321
Shitty temp jobs are meaningless

>>10052451
>>10054535
>>10054784

You people have been told multiple times in multiple /engi/ threads that career fairs are a waste of time. You need to go where your future boss is, not the HR manager that your future boss hates working with.

Protip: your future boss goes to:

>conventions/conferences in your field
>training seminars in your field
>your field's professional organization's functions (lunch meetings, social hours, etc.)

>>10055525
Those are all invite only.

>>10055528
Not >>10055525
There aren't like local ASME lunches that you can attend? Or are those invite only?

>>10055528

>Those are all invite only.

Slanderous lies. All of these functions will take any and all paying customers and most have discounts for students. Most professional organizations and societies have events specifically for networking.

This shitty first attempt resume got me a job as a commercial HVAC engineer/consultant (hospitals, warehouses, etc.).

>$52000 w/ some benefits

I start in 1 week wish me luck bois

>>10055549
>shitty resume and GPA less than 3.0
lmao
>>10055528
Take note of this shitter >>10055549

>>10055549
>that's a lie lol

>>10055549
what the fuck

>>10055549
>computer languages: FORTRAN

are you from the past

>>10055570
In 1998 and 1999 there was an increase in jobs aviable for FORTRAN programmers because of the "Y2K bug".

>>10055549
Did they not get transcripts from you? I think you got a joke job from a joke company.

>>10055597
they probably did and found out I had a 2.9, it was mentioned in my interview

>>10055597

In the firms I've worked at and the ones I've applied to, only one (I applied to) has ever asked for a transcript. The vast majority never asked for GPA. My first boss joked after six months when I brought my diploma in with other crap to hang up in my office that he was glad to see I did actually have a degree, apparently no one throughout the hiring process bothered to actually verify it.

>>10055570
Most CFD software is still written in FORTRAN

>>10055597
at $52k a year, its a low tier A&E firm. cutting his engineering teeth at a place like this is pretty normal for someone with a mediocre resume. its called paying dues and once he puts in 4-5 years and gets his PE, he'll job hop to something better or go to grad school.

Anyone else doing /metallurgy/ here?

>>10056122
please tell me you are under 5'10"

>>10053979
Hello darkness my old friend...

>>10055961
Or you could have taken the easy route and studied software in college, landing a cushy $120k a year job straight away.

>>10056129
Go sit in front of a computer for another 12 hours nerd, meanwhile I will actually make a difference in the world

>>10056166
>the dwarf is angry after having his metalwork insulted

>>10056174
Holy shit lmao

>>10056174
You win, anon

>>10053324
>EE can get ME job
no

>>10055898
why

Anyone here specilizing in fluids/thermal ? Hows it going for you? Im graduating in less than a year and it is a little scary since its a pretty niche field.

http://ingenieria.uchile.cl/english-version/education/101045/civil-engineering-in-computer-science
Is this program a Computer Science degree hiding as Engineering ? I don't understand the difference between Computer Science and Computer Engineering.

>>10056657
>Computer Engineering
>Is the branch of engineering that integrates electronic engineering with computer sciences. Computer engineers design and develop computer systems and other technological devices.
>Computer Science
>Is the study of computers and computational systems. Unlike electrical and computer engineers, computer scientists deal mostly with software and software systems; this includes their theory, design, development, and application.

>>10056657
>Is this program a Computer Science degree hiding as Engineering ?

Yep. Third world shitholes think CS is engineering. "Ingeniería en Computación/Informática" are just CS degrees with a few more math and physics courses, which are useless in CS anyway.

http://www.uchile.cl/carreras/4971/ingenieria-civil-en-computacion All these courses like Data Structures, Algorithms, Theory of Computation, Operating Systems are CS topics.

CE is pretty much EE with a minor in CS.

>t. chilean fag.

>>10056698
Uhh. So 'Ingenieria Civil en Computacion' isn't the same as CE? Sorry if my question is retarded but it confuses me why they call the degree Ingieneria Civil.

>>10056711
As I said CE is closer to EE. The only CS topics you usually cover in CE are Data Structures, Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, the rest of the major is EE stuff like Circuit Analysis, Electronics, Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing, VLSI Circuits, Embedded Systems.

>>10056732
Thanks! I will still compare the programs by myself but now I sort of understand what these degrees mean in Chile.

>>10052404
I can’t fathom how someone could possibly still miss the bait if the guy even made it so easy as to put :^))) at the end

>>10053979
>t. bio major
>b-but i do have a job it’s $20k/year

>>10056208
it just works

>>10056174

Ok, I'm back after giving it some thought.
(I'm the guy who wanted to do BM, but others told me to go more mainstream)
Basically what i want to accomplish later on is already a seperate Masters education (Neruoengineering) so i've thought out 2 paths:

1) I go do a Bachelors in BMT, dip in Neuro for the minor and go for an internship/ research containing neuroscience/engineering and apply for the Masters after (and still get out of BME)

2) i go do Bachelor: MEng, dip into nanotech (or neuro again) and apply for the Masters after with a more specific skillset in Mechanical engineering.

what do you think /sci/, Go for the meme, or go for Meng? (I'll still end up at the same Masters and even if i won't i WILL get a masters in something.)

>>10057010
If Master's is your ultimate goal, choose a NON-ENGINEERING degree. Your GPA will absolutely suck if you do engineering, which will significantly reduce your chances of being accepted into a Master's program.

>>10057022
I see where you're coming from, but i'm afraid i wouldn't know what the hell to pick for a bachelor if not an engineering degree if i hope to work as a neuroengineer: Any concrete examples of what might be considered a decent non-engineering alternative?
(My best subjects up until now are Physics and Chemistry, both of which i am passing with an A and a B+ average in that order.)

>>10057068
>i hope to work as a neuroengineer
I've never seen a job post for it where it doesn't ask for EEs/MechEs/ChemEs and just say they'll teach you on the job.

>>10054198
Not that anon but imo it was the easiest course I've taken

>>10056174
Thanks for delivering my punchline anon

Is it possible for me to get into a PhD program for EE or optical engineering if I have little to no research experience? I have lab experience similar to research (at least that is what my professor said), but I dont have much else. I have a high gpa and near perfect GRE scores

>>10057074
Never seen one w/out it either but >>10057022 tells me that my GPA'd suck with an engineering bachelor for some reason; so i was asking if there'd be an alternative to a Bachelor in engineering as the step towards a neuroengineering Masters degree that doesn't screw over GPA + is relevant to the field.

The whole premise of having good GPA, but no skills in engineering is estranged to me though: why would I consider this if my Masters is (partly) focused on/ specializes in the skills i can get with my bachelors.

Come to think of it, the whole point being made is kind of moot, as with a non-engineering bachelor i wouldn't have the/any relevant skills needed for the master; no matter what my GPA is, if i have the relevant skills i can make it fit by specializing with those skills inside the NeurEng field or something.

>inverse trig derivatives
And yes, unironic calc 1 freshman undergrad.

>>10055549
>skills
>computer
N-Nani

>>10052323
First time posting in this thread.

I'm a college student in his final semester and I have 2 weeks to choose what undergrad I want to do before university deadline. I'm considering engineering but have no fucking idea what to choose, electrical? mechanical? software? computer? computer science?

Reading the OP, I'm glad I scratched off chemical and systems engineering as choices. Is a masters worth it anyway? Anybody have some knowledge they'd like to pass on to a newbie about to enter university?

>>10057250
Engineering degree is fine for bachelors and your gpa will be fine if you put in the work. Most masters just ask for the same field in bachelors or one in engineering, science, or math. So you could do related shit like biology, physics, etc. You could also try to get into some research with a professor working in bioengineering which will help show your sort of focus towards engineering. Overall I think your main paths should be one of the following:
>Biomedical/bioengineering for bachelors, taking classes related to neuro in your jr/sr year electives
>EE specializing in bioEE (if they have that at your college) or just taking biology classes related to neuro on the side
>physics bachelors, specialized in biophysics if you can, otherwise pick some neuro classes up on the side
If you are 100% sure you are deadset for this, then going biomedical/bioengineering for bachelors would be the best choice, but otherwise the EE and physics paths would give more flexibilty to look for options other than bioengineering

Im taking a break from uni, im engineering management major. During this two years what skills should I learn? Excel, six sigma, autocad etc? Any bros in that field wanna give me some advice?

>>10056698
Beauchef qlo anda a estudiar

>>10057549
read through the thread then major in anything but engineering

>>10058008
how the fuck do you not already know how to use excel?

>>10058008
>im engineering management major
I hope this is a graduate degree...

>>10052323
Hey, newfag here. I'm filling out my FAFSA rn and need engineering schools to put in there. Please give me suggestions.

How's the glass ceiling for optical engineers with a Master's degree in optical engineering? I don't want to hit a wall in 10 years with people telling me I should've gone for a PhD, which is why I'm seriously considering going to law school for patent law.

t. optical engineer with a master's degree in optical engineering

>>10057010
Get an ME degree it's more versatile as a fallback. If you go to a good school you'll also do internships/co-ops and actual projects which will give you skills to put on your resume. You can pivot into neuro with research experience at university. ME is mostly classical mechanics and thermodynamics, which if you're doing well in physics and chemistry shouldn't be too tough for you.

Rate me

>>10058163
>glass ceiling
>optical engineer

I see what you did there

>BM is a meme
Thanks lads you just saved me having to retake a years worth of chem classes because the chem for engineers series I took doesn't count for BM at my uni
Sticking with ME like a pleb
If I don't get a job designing prosthetics at some point in my life I will have let everything I've ever worked for down that and my childhood self who grew up on sci-fi

>BM is a meme
Thanks lads you just saved me having to retake a years worth of chem classes because the chem for engineers series I took doesn't count for BM at my uni
Sticking with ME like a pleb
If I don't get a job designing prosthetics at some point in my life I will have let everything I've ever worked for down
that and my childhood self who grew up on horrible amounts of science fiction

>>10054080
CompEng here, hello.
>IB
>Discrete Maths (TWICE): C-

Bruh, I dicked around highschool. My Jr. year was pretty much pre-calc + (my only AP class) APCS. My Sr. year, literally 6 periods of (artsy) electives + 1 required english class.

I coasted a B+ for discrete math, doing the entirety of counting theory homework 15 minutes before the class started. Never got anything below an 80.

After graduating, I found out what IB was and got curious on what I missed out on. So, I read some 40ish page example IB Math EE about the calculus in rainbows that got marked a 32/36, whatever the fuck that's worth. I didn't understand a lick of what I was reading, and I sure as hell don't understand how an IB student fails a class about critical thinking. I have a new standard for these phony pre-college pedestal programs.

How hard is finding a job with a Computer Science & Engineering bachelors? What GPA and how much stuff on my resume is necessary? Is it even worth grinding hard to get a job at a big company or can I just replace that with work experience eventually?

What's the output of an RC filter with where the resistance is a negative resistance or the capacitance is a negative capacitance?

Before the less informed among you call me a retard and tell me "there's no such thing as a negative resistance" look up what a negative impedance converter is.

So let's say there's an RC low pass filter or something and we replace R with some active circuitry that as far as the capacitor is concerned is a black box with an impedance of -R. What happens at the output? Will it still filter? Is it unstable? Will it oscillate? What's the transfer function?

>>10058143
Most people don't "really" know Excel. He probably means learning VBA and the rest of that Excel wizardry.

What's the reason for biomedical being a meme major? Been thinking about it ever since I was a wee lad but then I got interested in computer hardware and physics. I don't have any fucking clue about what I should take at this point but I feel like physics due to job opportunities.
>inb4 do what u like
i like all of them essentially

How do I choose which line to use for flow? I don't get it and keep writing down wrong vector fields.

>>10058196
>Get an ME degree it's more versatile as a fallback.
No, stop giving this bad advice. HR wants specialists, not people who are vaguely familiar with the job.

How do you guys juggle your annoying humanities classes?

>>10059401
do the bare minimum but also go to all extra credit opportunities if there are any

>>10059401
By having them all done through high school credit, thankfully.

>>10059399
Which is why you specialize with internships and research experience you absolute brainlet. Besides, for entry level positions most of the time your actual experience is irrelevant - it's more about them knowing that you're capable of learning quickly, solving problems, and working in a team.

>>10052323
How to write a good cover letter?

>>10052323
>go to lecture
>its on critical thinking
>get mid-way through
>lecturer asks us to think critically and share our thoughts on the lecture
>hear in the back "this is bullshit!"
>lecturer looks pissed as fuck like he's trying hard not to headlock them and noogie them until they are fucking bald
>"w-well you told us to say what we think"
Does this happen a lot in lectures? I thought that I was just succumbing to the Dunning-Kruger effect though being in foundation year there must be genuine retards here. Any funny stories you guys have?

Anyone here ever work with Nastran DMAPs? Siemens and MSC was very generous to reveal a good amount of source code that's sitting in the installation files, but the complexity of the code compounded by the fact that there's almost no documentation of how the code works makes it nearly impossible to track what the fuck is going on in this thing.

>>10060030
Basic grammar is a good start.

>>10060178
Did you have a question, or...?

>>10060204
Yea.

>>10060178
>Anyone here ever work with Nastran DMAPs?
Would also know if there's an easy way to pull out data from the stress tables.

>>10056174
Welp, that guy ain't coming back from the burn ward for a while

>>10057010
Mech's don't do Masters. Or PhD's.

>>10057549
How's your math?

>>10058008
>autocad
Yes
>excel
Fuck yes
If you need a programming language everybody I've asked says python.

>>10058318
Come by to brag or genuinely concerned?

>>10060030
Use it to say what your resume doesnt and introduce yourself.
Have excerpts written up that you can piece together into a full letter that best fits your position

>>10060030
Resumes are quantitative, cover letters are qualitative.

who else here /bottomlessdepression/?

>>10060655
I'm just starting and my results are going from bad to worse.

>>10052323
Does systems engineering mean control systems engineering?

>>10061124
Writer of the OP here. When I say "systems engineering" I am talking about systems integration engineering. "Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles." Almost every systems engineer I have worked with is a project engineer or a high level non technical requirements capturer/verifer.

>>10061218
Nigger why are you bullying ChemEs? I admit our job market is in a rut, but we will be fine in 5-10 years. It's a good degree. And most people aren't whining just asking for advice to transition to other fields.

>>10061227
>They are challenging degrees but there are just not enough jobs to keep up with graduating students. Many bitter anons in these threads are ChemE students or unemployed ChemE graduates.
Where is the lie? Additionally why should kids study ChemE if they have to wait 5-10 years to even get a job?

>>10061227
Good luck getting an engineering job 10 years from graduation, if you have no experience in the industry prior.

>>10052393
>i was never good at math
Stop wasting your time. No employer is going to pay your more than your worth outside of being a corrupt government official. Even if you could get your bachelors, AND pass whatever accredidation exam, you will be a bad engineer and get paid the lowest one can. Find a major you actually preform well in, and accept the pay check you get. Engineering degrees dont make you any money. Good engineers get paid well.

>2nd year of EE in Bongistabln
>tfw maths brainlet
>Struggling with Laplace & Fourier transforms, vector calc and linear algebra this semester

Just fuck my shit up

>>10061408
What if I'm good at maths and programming but bad at physics? Studying EE for the record.

>>10060655
Me. I'm working a part time job I can't bring myself to quit which leaves me no time for projects or to study and I'm doing kinda shit right now at 3.3 gpa, but it's my final semester so it's not like it matters anyways.

It's time to stop pushing the college meme. I just wanted to do some cool and meaningful science and engineering.

>>10052663
THink so. In Canada its fine

>>10061408
How do know if you’re going to be a bad engineer? I’ve earnestly taken personality tests given by the school and they advise engineering. Im obsessive and love getting carried away by details and plans, not intimidated by any of the required science/math, but I’m nervous I won’t be “good” in the real world. I’m not always Johnny on the spot with my professors. I keep looking over the catalogue and there is nothing else that I would choose. Do you not find this out until you’ve frauded your way into employment ?

>>10061753
I think that engineering is too broad of a term these days for anyone to give a good answer. I also think that anyone can be a "good" engineer depending on what their position is after they graduate. I have friends who got engineering bachelors and are labelled as engineers but they are actually glorified salespeople. Personally, I think that how much one applies creativity to their work should be the biggest determining factor in what makes them a good engineer, AND whether or not they deserve such a title. The smartest people I knew while I was in college were the most creative. I perform inspections on manufacturing facilities and at times feel I shouldn't be titled as an engineer since there is little creativity involved in my line of work.

>>10061236
>Additionally why should kids study ChemE if they have to wait 5-10 years to even get a job?

If you aren’t top tier out of school, you should fully expect to have to work some low tier job for a while. It’s called paying dues and you aren’t done paying them when you finish college.

>>10061408
imagine getting genuinely angry at the most obvious bait someone can write.

Would vehicles benefit from actively measuring the friction coefficient of the surface they’re driving on so the computer can tune accordingly for max efficiency in “”eco”” mode?? Or do they already do that? No bully

>>10062088
Lmao fuck off with that boomer logic. I found an interesting job right out of college from a unremarkable state college. Paying dues is a meme and only the worst candidates get shit jobs.

>circuits class
>prereq is electricity/magnetism and differentials
>6 weeks into semester
>talking about differentials for inductors and capictors
>asks if we changed current to amperes
Literally what? How are you this deep in the semester and not know current is amperes? Are these the ones that populate the threads saying they cant find a job?

>>10052323
>Taking the FE exam tomorrow
>haven't had a lot of time to study for it
>realized I don't remember fuck all and I'm totally fucked tomorrow
wew lad, fuck this week

>>10062540
>taking Partial Differential Equations
>professor simplifies an integral by splitting a function into even and odd functions
>guy raises his hand and asks what even and odd functions are
I feel you

Why does my school make ECE students take a thermofluids class in our 3rd year?

>>10058318
Este CV tiene mucho humo jajaja

Sucks to be failed many times in Math courses, if any anons here planning on taking engineering, do not take the risk or else fucking go and be ready for the worst stage of your life. Believe me at once the only reason why I took engineering is because I have no interest in any Medical programs (science was my fav subject and none of them didn't caught my interest) and logic circuits is my kind of thing. Hope you guys can make it if you really want to be an engineer in the future.

anyone know what major I would choose to start producing medicine/pharma? I was thinking chemical engineering or BME.

>>10062971
I don't know much about that, but I would think you wouldn't want an engineering degree at all. I would guess you'd want a chemistry degree (which I believe is very different from a ChemE degree).

>>10062947
Are you a cute school girl IRL too anon?

>>10062947
The math is easy my man. I come from the backwoods, was nearly blind for the first half of my life, and took brainlet tier math classes throughout high school and I’m making it as far as math is concerned. The physics aren’t always so easy though

Hi guys, 40 year old aerospace engineer here.

Can I let you in on a little secret?

Nobody gives a shit how smart you are in the corporate world.

I feel like I am smarter than 95% of my colleagues. Yet I haven't advanced in my job and my career is at a standstill. Alot of the engineers are in the same position as me.

If I look at the leadership of the company (a fortune 50 CPG firm), there are no engineers. The Executive Leadership Team is comprised of Lawyers and MBAs that have shown loyalty to the company and have a certain tenure.

I know this really sucks because in your twenties and thirties you're still thinking + school = + smarts, and + smarts = + ability at work, and + ability will = + success in the workplace. None of this is true.

As they say, the A students end up working for the B students, who are managed by the C students. The D students? They own the company.

There's much more truth to this than you might believe.

>>10064080
CEO's most commonly hold an engineering background you larper. I'm gonna be going back to school for an MBA later on in my career anyways.

>>10064111
I'm telling you it's pointless. I also have an MBA. You don't learn shit, but network a lot and if you play it right fuck a bunch of chicks. But it won't make your career skyrocket. You're better off staying at your job and collecting a paycheck and 401k match.

>>10061408
This is bullshit. Most jobs are a lot easier than coursework. Even if you struggle with Engineering maths, you'll probably be a lot smarter than most motherfuckers you work with.

>>10064080
>I feel like I am smarter than 95% of my colleagues.
>alot
Kek

>>10052382
So fake and gay. It's literally impossible to not get a job with this resume. Except if you are a shitty person and suck bad at social. Maybe if you haven't showered in two weeks, keep telling the interviewer about your anime collection and your pocket pussy they won't hire you.

Your own fault then really.

>>10052385
Yes. If you answer me in a satisfying manner:

Which do you prefer? Arduino, mbedOS, FreeRTOS, Nordic or something else?

What crypto bib do you like best?

Do you prefer Bluetooth/Wifi or something FSK?

Do you prefer >1GHz or <1GHz RF and why?

M4 or M0? Which do you like more, a challenge or more "real estate"? Floating point or not? (Guess thins depends somewhat on the industry. Sometimes some DSP skill is more important than a FPU)

MOV R0, R0 or AND R5, R5 and why?

MPS430 vs ARM? (Atmel is a zombie at this point desu, held alive by the Arduino brand). AVR32 is a joke.

What do you think about RISC-V? Are you hyped or are you cautious?

>>10064080
>tl;dr You are never going to get rich doing engineering for other people.

Yeah, pretty sure everyone knows that. Management is only marginally better than being a deck plate engineer and VP+ doesn’t have the work life balance. If you want to get paid, you go independent or partner in a small firm.

>>10052382
>>10052420
>>10052878
>>10053418
>>10054011
>>10054299
>>10054535
>>10064218
Stop feeding him already. He's fucking trolling you for the third thread in a row and you all are still buying into his crap.

Any good book for fluids mechanics? Not the big ones from the wiki please

>>10062563
If you're afraid of the FE you genuinely do not deserve to be an engineer.

>>10064080
I feel like I am smarter than 95% of my colleagues
doubtful.

>>10052568
Not him but I hope you make it anon!

GF finally left today because I can't get a job. I have officially lost everything

>>10064218
>>10064452
I don't know what else to tell you fags. It's real.

>>10064686
>fags
Why the homophobia?

>>10064680
If your girl aren't with you at the hard times, she wasn't really a good person.

I have a B.Eng in Mech Engineering but I hated my degree and I dislike being a project manager in manufacturing for the last 4 years. I plan on going back for a Master's degree but I can't find anything

1) Isn't a meme
2) Will take a degree in ME as prerequisite
3) Isn't related to bending fucking beams

>>10064686
>real
There is no reals

>>10052382
I'm honestly jelly

I'm just starting EE part time. Which elective should I take.

Chem 1
Intro to comp Sci
Linear algebra

>>10064722
Just get your PE and do HVAC for ez money

>>10064755
>EE
>Linear algebra elective

>>10064768
I'm dumb. Please explain.

>>10064722
>I dislike being a project manager in manufacturing for the last 4 years
What exactly do you not like about it? Could you please elaborate?

>>10064788
He hates playing golf with the richest people in his city. It mostly comes down to an inferiority complex linked to his micropenar. Instead of toughening him up, the jokes from the other boys only served to manifest a deep seated fear of rejection that comes out mostly on his putting. Anon, stuffing your pants with rolled up socks is only hurting your condition. God bless your soul.

>>10052515
What makes CE easier than EE
>t. Sophomore about to have to choose between the two.

>>10064858
CS is the easiest STEM major and at least 25% of CE consists of CS.

>>10064864
What do you think about EE with a minor in CS?

>>10052568
Yo Sunglasses anon, UTC anon here. I submitted your resume yesterday, sorry for the delay. Friends from a few other aerospace companies (Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, and Rockwell Collins) are going to float your resume around too. Just a disclosure, if UTC hires you I get a bonus, same goes for my friends and their companies.

>>10064872
That's literally CE, so a waste of time.

>intern opening at cities power district
>no real requirements other than be an EE student
My resume is shit. The only job experience i have is starbucks and a pizza maker/deliverer. I have no skills other than “being able to communicate with others”
My only coursework is circuits, all undergrad physics and math, and a matlab course i’m still taking.
Am i fucked?

>>10065038
worst they can say is no

Sophomore EE student nearing the end of the required math and physics courses here, a lot of my friends who majored in EE say that after the Physics sequence, Calc sequence, and DE + Linear, the actual EE classes are a breeze. Bullshit?

>>10065134
Depends on the student and the rigor of the program. I know at my unvirsity a lot of junior EE's struggled during Control Theory, Electromagnetics, and Signals. Some other students struggled in the advanced electronics classes. No one struggled in the power courses, since power is for small brained kids

>>10065038
damn, if only there were something you could do about that. Oh well, you should kill yourself

>>10065140
How computationally heavy will things get? In all calc courses, the professor and book gave problems with "nice" answers like whole numbers, simple fractions, exponentials or logarithms, and roots, but I imagine problems dealing with real-world scenarios/applications won't be like this.

>>10065183
Depends on the professor. My old signals professor really liked to give us really messy problems that basically required a TI-89 or higher. My EMag professor liked to give us nice problems that we could do by hand.

>>10064518
Hey, I hardly had a chance to review it cut me some slack. It's been a long ass time since I looked at a lot of these topics.

I got roasted btw

Anyone work in the IC?

>>10065195
You had the complete liberty to choose any date within reason you wanted for the exam. If you weren't a fucking retard you would have scheduled the exam at least one month in advance on a day where you either did not have any classes/schoolwork or had very little, then set aside an hour or two every day reviewing material. The only reason you "hardly had a chance" to review it is because you lack the foresight that all functioning adults have. The only reason it has been a "long ass time" since you looked at a lot of those topics is because you are a lazy animal with no self control.

>>10053979
>engr isn't science and math
Nice.

So when is the wiki going to be updated with some civil eng. section?

>>10065223
You aren't all wrong. I'm dumping a lot of time into all my classes, and I just barely manage to complete all the homework lately because every concept this semester I've struggled to grasp. I also work weekends, so I really just have afternoons to complete everything.

But it wasn't like I didn't have foresight. I put it this week because it was the only time I don't have exams this month, and it HAS to be this month because no times were open earlier and it has to be done by October. Idk man, I'm fucking burned at this point. I don't know why I didn't quit my job

>>10064259
>Which do you prefer? Arduino, mbedOS, FreeRTOS, Nordic or something else?
Arduino, because that's the only one I can recognise

>What crypto bib do you like best?
Don't know

>Do you prefer Bluetooth/Wifi or something FSK?
Bluetooth/Wifi I suppose

Do you prefer >1GHz or <1GHz RF and why?
Don't know

>M4 or M0? Which do you like more, a challenge or more "real estate"? Floating point or not? (Guess thins depends somewhat on the industry. Sometimes some DSP skill is more important than a FPU)
Don't know

>MOV R0, R0 or AND R5, R5 and why?
Don't know

>MPS430 vs ARM? (Atmel is a zombie at this point desu, held alive by the Arduino brand). AVR32 is a joke.
ARM i suppose

>What do you think about RISC-V? Are you hyped or are you cautious?
Have no opinion on that matter

Am I gonna make it?

>>10064680
How long where you without a job?

>>10058318
Why are you getting an IE degree when you do nothing but diddle with programming? Also is putting languages/software in bold a new thing?

How do you find ideas for projects and freelance shit to do?
I want to have some basic things for my resume but I don't know what to do

>>10066042
Join your on-campus engineering club and ask what ideas are feasible. Look to see if your college has the following clubs: ASCE, ASME, IEEE, etc. depending on what your major is.

it's all so tiresome

>>10064899
T-thanks anon. Kind of a strange situation getting a job through 4chan, but I'll go with it.

If my resume is kinda shitty, i.e. no projects, no job experience at all, only somewhat related coursework, but my GPA was excellent (3.7+) and I did well in the interview at the job fair, do I have any chance for landing that sweet first internship?

>>10066872
>and I did well in the interview at the job fair
That's all you should really need. The rest is just convincing someone to interview you.

Guys, I'm having my first professional interview soon. How to not fuck it up?

>>10065140
is power systems actually easy?

>>10067555
It is just AC circuit analysis with a few more caveats.

>>10067548
Real talk, y’all niggas need to be applying for jobs you don’t want just for interview experience.

>>10067548
>How to not fuck it up?
By speaking at a third grade level, at least.

>>10067685
You could have spent those 30 seconds you spent typing that nonsense more productively.

>>10058318
Tell me more about your most recent project. Reminds me of GIS stuff which always interests me.

>>10052323
>Mechatronics
is it really a meme degree?
t. mechatronics student

>>10068517
It is what you make of it.

Should I learn how to program with Python or Matlab is enough?

>>10069534
If you have the time, it's worth picking up. I think the mentality of "is X good enough" just sets you up to be the lowest possible candidate for a position.

>>10069563
I see. I don't really have that much time to learn a programming language now, but I'll try it later. Thanks, anon

>>10069571
Just start small honestly. The best way to learn is by doing, so look up basic projects in python. If you're really comfortable with matlab converting to another language isn't that bad.

>>10064686
>>10064452
In the previous thread he mentioned how he has some gaps in his employment history and illnesses that may be cause for concern of employers.

I feel bad for him because someone should take a chance on him but if I was hiring I don't know if I would.

>>10068517
Personally, I'd say do mechanical and emphasize mechatronics in your undergrad. It's one of those degrees that can be pretty narrow at an undergrad level, and I'd argue that a good program like that at an undergrad level is rare.

But if you put in the time to have plenty of projects, experience, and good grades you'll be fine

>>10052323
I'm starting to think that product development isn't for me.

Should I look for a job as an analyst or a test engineer? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

>>10069774
Ouch. He does have a good resume, I'm still jelly, but this just makes things harder for him

>>10069774
...how can gaps of employment be a concern? Im not that guy but I WAS IN FUCKING COLLEGE. WHY DO THEY CARE IF I STOPPED WORKING AT PIZZA HUT FOR A YEAR TO FOCUS ON MY GRADES? that is absolute insanity, not that my grades are high, I struggled with mental illness and will be graduating with a 2.8 but I have a strong senior project that I did for a company. Because I live in a shit area I was not able to get any internships, but nobody was unless they knew someone.
>durr you should have networked
I tried, my professors couldn't offer me anything. I went to every single career fair and I'm not even autistic at all but they were all looking for very specific skillsets that I don't have. Do I just have to lie about what I can do? what the fuck is the point

>>10070028
No employer expects students to work full time during their college semesters. However if you are an engineering student, your summers SHOULD be free to WORK.

>>10070029
I fucking tried to land internships and nobody would ever hire me, I had to work landscaping, waiting tables, and operations for a few companies to pay my bills. Of course I don't list those on my resume because why would I, they are trash jobs that I just needed to pay my rent. I never understood why companies would show up to career fairs just to tell literally everyone that they arent hiring for internships, and I was even judged for my GPA on undergrad internships

>>10070031
>I was even judged for my GPA on undergrad internships
Why wouldn't you be? Engineering internships like almost all high paying jobs are competitive.

>>10070035
Because I was not only mentally ill but had several severe health problems that greatly impaired my ability to focus on school, including two separate surgeries with painful recoveries. Should I have just fucking given up instead? When does the value of the degree come in?

>>10070037
>not only mentally ill but had several severe health problem
You can always take time off.
>When does the value of the degree come in?
You will find a job eventually anon thanks to your degree...it just won't be at Apple/Google/Boeing/Intel/Etc. After a few years then you can work wherever you want as long as you have the experience. You will have to hustle and send out a lot of job apps but you will get one.

>>10070043
Not him but I can't tell if you're telling the truth or are just shitposting with this pepe pic

>>10070043
I really couldn't have taken time off, because of how rapidly my stupid school changes their degree requirements I would have lost an absurd amount of time and had to take faarrrrr more classes than I would have normally. I sure hope I can find a job, every goddamn job posting on linkedin asks for years of experience. Its frustrating because I had 60k job offers in non-stem fields before I even did this degree, and now with my engineering degree I can only get jobs that pay even less than that, if at all? it just feels like I shouldn't even have gone to college. I hope you're right though

>>10070052
I am telling the truth, All my friends had lower GPAs and no work experience and they found engineering jobs.

>>10070053
Use glassdoors, search your engineering field and then filter by entry level. That is what I did when I was looking for specifically entry level positions.

>in 1st year of 2 electrical engineering tech diploma
>seems like it's just engineering for brainlets
>but with actual human interaction
>capstone project at end of 2nd year involves presentation about project to 100+ industry reps
I feel like I have made a terrible mistake. Anybody else here /brainlet/?

>>10070057
I'll give that a try. LinkedIn has been retarded, I have applied to 25+ jobs and only get stupid recruiters telling me "hey maybe your resume isn't updated, send me a new one and check out this senior dev job!" when my resume is clearly dated and says im graduating in december

>>10070060
Damn. I would definitely sperg out.
I feel very uncomfortable with presentations for lots of people

I haven't received a mark back for my lab report and i think it may be because my TA thinks my partner and i plagiarized it from my own report that i submitted the first time i took this course. I wrote my part from scratch but I gave my previous report to help her out. I think the stupid bitch copied one calculation and forgot to replace it with our values and that set off the alarm bells. If they fail me for this I going to jump in front of a train.

>>10070083
>her

>>10070077
We get our own specific job fairs at the college too. They are really pushing these programs for whatever reason.

>>10070028
Iirc it was gaps after graduating. I don’t think anyone really holds it against you if you didn’t work during school if you work during summers.

As someone with mental illness (schizophrenia) who has dropped out of school because of it, I really feel for the guy. I didn’t graduate until I was 27. I spent years as a NEET after getting kicked out of school the first time. I’ve been extremely fortunate to go to grad school and I haven’t any success in the real world yet. I wish there was a way to make sure people with unconventional trajectories still land on their feet.

Does anyone have experience with interviewing for Broadcom? I have an on site interview next week for a test engineering position, and i'm not sure what to expect.

>>10070178
That is good to hear. It is discouraging applying for so many jobs that claim that "professional experience is required" when they are pretty clearly entry level but hopefully with enough applications out someone will take a chance on me. It just feels like no employers want to train anyone anymore, they're all looking for some wonder student to come in and rewrite their whole system without any supervision

>>10070178
and I'm sorry you've struggled so much, I just had adhd and major depression which are really nothing compared with schizophrenia. I think you'll find your way man, especially after grad school

>>10052849
>>10052867
American degrees are a fucking joke, I'm doing some online courses from american unis right now and even though I'm half-assing them I get solid A+ across the board like it's nothing. You have to be genuinely retarded or not giving a shit to get less than a 3.0 GPA in American unis.

Meanwhile in my country even getting a passing grade in some courses in your first try is considered a major feat. To get a B or more you have to devote some serious time. Not to mention autistic professors who grade you based on their mood at the time . Not to mention that the standards of the courses are usually a lot higher. Shit that american unis do in post graduate programs we do in our first year or second year.