/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2366047

NukeE here. Sup nigger

there are too many subfields, what are you're interests

Most schools offer General Engineering 1st year and let you speciallize 2nd year

inb4 homophobia

Do mechanical.

Actually it doesn't matter, just don't pick electrical. Shit is hemorrhaging jobs unless you're some prodigy who doesn't doubt he could get a silicon valley hardware job.

Gotta list some interests or courses you've enjoyed.

>>2366068
would computer engineering fall under this as well? And i would of assumed that mechanical engineering would be less of use in the US since were not making anything

Hoping to go into aerospace engineering in a few years.

Electrical and loving it.

>>2366070
Funfact: mechanicalfags can get almost any aerospace job, not to mention tons of other stuff.

Keep your shit broad.

>>2366076

Wrong. Completely wrong on every level

Civil engineer here. Do computers, unless you suck at calc.

>>2366076
Hardware yes, software no. In fact software is exploding with work, too bad it's boring as hell.

And meh, the US still makes plenty of stuff. Blue-collar factory line jobs are being replaced with increases in efficiency, but our manufacturing output has been steadily increasing for decades and engineers, especially in design, have been finding plenty of work.

It's not really an "engineering" discipline in the traditional sense, but I'm a software engineer. It's pretty awesome.

>>2366047
Electrical Engineering is awesome!

Near the bottom of the list here....mechanical shit rad IMO

>>2366080
My dad (he's a mechanical engineer) suggested that I should major in mechanical and minor in aerospace. I'm only a high school senior, so I still have some time to think it over. :)

>>2366126

Your dad is retarded

>minor in aerospace

what the fuck

>>2366126

hah

double god tier here, majoring in electrical with a minor in electronic materials engineering, niggas dont even know i can engineer them a solar panel with sea sand and apricots.

>>2366131
Elaborate? I really have no idea how the whole major/minor thing works. Please be nice...

>>2366068
is electrical really that bad?

>>2366060

Another NukeE here, Stay out scrubs

>>2366161

A minor in aerospace engineering is pointless. I dont even think they do that at most schools.

A major is what you are to know a shit ton about. A minor is something you know a little about or use as a way to make yourself more specific to your field

ex. Major: Materials Science Minor: Business Administration. you might work for a plastics company...etc

>>2366153
>majoring and minoring in engineering
>like being a homosexual most of the time and a faggot in between

>>2366174

FirstNE bro here. What school are you at?

>>2366169
no thats not true, in fact ECE has one of the highest starting salaries in the country. MY school's average, university of illinois, is at around 66k. recruiters come here and BEG PEOPLE to go work for them; seniors get shitloads of job offers.

>>2366177
I see. Knowing that I want to do aerospace, what would you recommend?

Major: Mech or aero
Minor: ???

>>2366193
Maybe back before the recession. Shit.

>>2366068

Oh yeah?

>>2366195

why even minor in anything? engineering is fine without

>>2366169
No, it's actually completely untrue. The mechanical job market is growing faster than electrical, but electrical is still growing. Don't listen to him, he's one of those people that repeats things he hears without researching first.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm#earnings

>>2366203
Shit, I don't know. Didn't think I had a choice. O.o

>>2366193

Do you think recruiters for EE show up at lesser-known state schools, like a SUNY?

>>2366222

If your school gives engineering degrees, engineering recruiters will come, don't worry.

>>2366222
Yes, though the more prestigious the school, the wider the variety of recruiters. SUNY Stony Brook will mostly have places from the NY/NJ area, whereas the University of Illinois will have places from all over the country.

>>2366195

If you're serious about doing aerospace work, you'll likely end up doing a master's before you start work. That's the level you need to be at to do, say, jet turbine design and engineering.

Two people coming out of the same mechanical program might be miles apart in what they can do, just because of what courses and which options they took as they went through. I took engineering physics, mech stream, with a bunch of thermo and turbomachinery courses; I could have done the same and been more focussed taking mechanical off the bat, but I probably have better math skills and lateral thinking because of physics.

>>2366219

This nigger thinks he's getting in college with a brain like his. LOLOLOLOLOLO

>>2366237

Alright, so there's little chance of someone from Intel or such popping in and giving me a dream job? Disappointing. I figure just applying blindly to one of the big companies rarely works either.

>>2366270
On the contrary, the bigger the company the more likely they'll just tell you to fuck off from their career fair booth and apply online.

At least that's what Boeing does.

What were the hardest classes of mechanical engineering?

>>2366338
ME 400 - glorified grease monkey design

>>2366338
There's no "hardest class", but I can tell you that thermodynamics (late sophomore/early junior year) will be what makes or breaks you.

>>2366250
I'm definitely going for a master's, most likely at Georgia tech.

>>2366153
>>2366153

I want to hear more about your seasand apricot magic.

>>2366358
Excellent I got a B in it last semester.

Nuc E here.
All you really have decide when you first go to college if you wanna be in physical or computer engineering.
Then usually after your second year, you choose the spec. My first two years, I was in the same classes as my Mech E, Civil E, Aero E, etc friends. So you still have some time.

>>2366481

What uni are you at?

chemical engineers

way out in left field

holla

dont do this, kid.

is software engineering good

Any bio engineering guys out there? How's the course-load and job field?

>>2366506

I'm a chemist looking to switch into doing Chem-E after i'm done with a bachelors to make more Jew-Gold, are you saying that its a bad idea to do it?

>>2366573
I guess i forgot to specify

undergraduate ChE sucks hard. you do not learn much that is immediately applicable on the job.

i dont know much about graduate work and its position in non-academia, but i hear its top fucking dollar

I'm a mech eng at Georgia Tech. It's one of the more versatile.

>>2366047

>Major: Mechanical Eng.

>Minor: Materials

>be rich in like 2 years after graduation

>>2366586
as an afterthought,

chemistry focused chemical engineering sounds like it should be a killer combo
though it depends a whole lot on what you are looking to get into as well

lazy civil engineering fag here

just gonna bs my way through it all and then get a cushy city/state gov job

i'm not very ambitious what can i say

>>2366614
haha thats what I am doing with mechanical

>>2366185

University of Tennessee you?

>>2366614
Chemfag here, wish I studied harder in high school so I could do civil engineering and follow in your footsteps. Now stuck busting my ass 70 hours a week for a 15$ an hour a job when I graduate. I better get into chem-E when I'm done our i'm an-heroing...

>>2366669
chemE kinda sucks too lol

i mean the workload is WTFFFF and you have to deal with premed classmates

whats the difference between chemistry and chemical engineering?

>mfw my school is one of the few schools in the country with an accredited Ocean Engineering program
>mfw I went into Electrical anyway

industrial engineering holla

>>2366924
chem engineering is 10x better more physics and a little nano tech if like. you get paid more.
basically your not stuck making paint/solutions.

>>2366900

Whats the workload difference between 17 credits of math&pure science versus engineering. I don't think its that dissimilar. I unfortunately, go to a campus that is well(ok, maybe not)-known for placing graduates into medical school, so my classmates are like 50% premed, 25% grad school bound, and 25% WTFAMIGONNADOWITHMYLIFE

>>2366924
To put it simply, The traditional chemist would develop the drug used in pharmaeceuticals.
A chemical engineer would design the infrastructure designed to produce it in mass, very different disciplines (more physics based).

so chemical engineers doing actually make new chemicals? they just find a way to mass produce them?

>>2366924
fellow anon interested in ChemE here.

The running joke is that chemists use test tubes, chemical engineers use buckets. But seriously chemists try to understand the chemical processes and chemical engineers take known chemical processes and try to make economical use of them.

In school ChemE studies more economics, mathematics, fluid mechanics and will know more about using and creating a chemical to accomplish a goal. With just a bachelors degree chemistry will give you greater career options, but ChemE are in more demand if that makes sense.

Can I get some input from some electrical engineers or computer engineers with undergraduate degrees?
Even those without:
What 'flexible' classes would you advise to take?
How is the work?
Anything else you want to input

Oh god dammit, fucking applied for chemical engineering and now I hear it's boring as fuck undergraduate. S

>>2366047
Q over the reals. Fucking owns for counterexamples.

>>2367788

EE is fucking awesome. nuff said.

>>2367788
Computer engineer here.
Some advice for education: Don't take classes with the word "Heuristics" in the title. It sound like a cool sci-fi word, but the classes can be sumed up as: Derp, Don't make the buttons in your GUI too small or people will hit the wrong one sometimes.

Also take as many project classes as possible. Some engineers get high grades because they are great at written assignments and tests, but after getting a job they just can't get shit to work or done on time because they have no experience with real engineering projects.

Some jobs I've done:
Designed custom AV systems for some big name DJs. Got to travel all over and had more backstage passes than I could handle.

Designed communication protocols for predator and reaper drones. That wasn't really as cool as it sounds. The work I did wasn't any different from creating text messaging systems for smartphones.

My present job is creating image analysis algorithms to identify cancerous cells in microscope pictures. I'm teamed up with biologists and chemists; once we're done we should be able to make mass screenings more economical; increasing survival rates.

Applying computer tech to medical problems is getting pretty big at the moment. Taking some medicine related courses in addition to computer engineering will set you up nicely.

Mining engineering here and im going to make more money than all of you

Metallurgy is a good interdisciplinary field.

>>2367028
>With just a bachelors degree chemistry will give you greater career options

lol no - an undergrad chemE degree is much more flexible. I don't mean to slight it at all, but just an undergrad chemistry degree would probably leave you running routine tests in a lab or maybe teaching in a high school, whereas a b.s. in chemical engineering would put you in position to work in a great variety of jobs and make a very good salary in the process. To do anything particularly cool in chemistry you basically have to go to graduate school.

>>2367838
I didn't find it particularly boring so much as hard, but different strokes.

>>2367960
mining contractor here, you aren't making more than I am...

though I'm not an engineer, so I guess I don't get to wave my dick.

see ya at work tomorrow, and bring some decent coffee this time. Damn.

>>2367976

still in school, so ya your right

where do you work?

>>2367996
I live in Colorado. I work wherever I get a contract, or at least some of my crew does.

I'm mostly retired though. I handle sales and executive functions, and even those I don't need to do really.

also you picked a great time to go into mining, it's booming atm. Not sure if it'll last, but somewhere it's always time to mine.

>>2367788

this

studying EE at ETH zürich, shit is cash

>>2368023

Must be nice.

I plan on doing my MBA a few years after I get my undergrad and then move to the financial side of things. I'm from the Toronto area, so Bay St is pretty much what I'm aiming for.

>>2368063
I wish I had gone for my MBA, I learned by managing other people's businesses, starting and losing a few of my own. Two bankruptcies and 20 years later I finally have my shit together.

That's probably a decent point for any engineer as well, an MBA is never wasted time.

>>2367895
I don't know why I would even attempt that joke on engineers.....

bio and electrical don't require fluid mechanics.

>>2369369

which is why = faggot shit tier. engineering is about mastering the complex natural phenomena to make oodles of dollars.

>>2369484
ya but its the reason engineers get put next to business majors. theres a nice zone in between the two extremes that you can hide in and feel superior.

>>2366581
Just a question... Why is bio-med engineering in the shit tier? I thought it would be around the podium.