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I like engineering, but way too much of it seems to be supported by the military-industrial complex. I like money and technology, but not working on more efficient death rays to kill brown people with.

How does one become a successful engineer without the guilt?

Pic related: Something that cost way too much money, shouldn't exist, was a bad idea, and the monetary and intellectual resources that went into it should have been better off making things that improve the life of the common citizen.

>> No.2589431

petro-engineers make bank

PS- they also smoke pole.

>> No.2589435

go civil, environmental, petroleum, genetic, etc

i'm guessing most of the defense industry is made up of mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineers and even those have plenty of applications outside of defense

>> No.2589430

bio-enginering

/thread

>> No.2589439

Is it possible to double major in civil and mechanical? Some guy said it would only take an extra year - year and a half.

>> No.2589442

maintaining and improving the various infrastructures that everybody uses everyday

>> No.2589448

>>2589431
>>2589435
>because helping oil companies suppress the electric cars and invade iraq is good.

>> No.2589450

Cell phones and TVs got to be engineered. Cars and planes need to be engineered. Buildings and bridges need to be engineered.

MIC may get a lot of attention, but if you become an engineer you're probably going to be building slip rings. Seriously, every mechanical engineering teacher in my school has a story related to working for a company making slip rings.

>> No.2589453

>>2589435
>>2589442
I'm already into electrical but I'm hoping to work on stuff like home automation and smart grids or high-speed rail if this country (USA) ever gets that shit off the ground around when I graduate.

>> No.2589457

and btw while railguns would almost certainly be used for killing people they could be used in other applications as well (eg non-rocket spacelaunch)

plenty of great inventions started with people trying to find new ways to kill each other

>> No.2589472

>>2589457
like the internet

>> No.2589500

>>2589430
>bio-enginering
Engineer a more lethal smallpox virus

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>>2589420
>I like engineering

When did you know your were homosexual?

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>>2589420
REALLY???????????
EVERY 20min anyother gay thread!
TAKE YOUR SHIT TO /B/!

>> No.2589532

Who cares? You are designing the weapons, not using them. People are going to kill each other regardless of how.
And besides, many beneficial discoveries came from R&D in the military.

>> No.2589556

>>2589532
I'd like to not be part of the problem.

>> No.2589567

>weapons
>unecessary in a world filled with despotic dictators and nutjobs with nuclear weapons

sure is peacefag in here

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>>2589532
>Who cares?
Are you shitting me.
>You are designing the weapons, not using them.
I wonder what happens when you apply this mindset to all the people that work on those weapons?

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>> No.2589582

>>2589577
Carl Sagan was a hippie.

>> No.2589583

>>2589532

Thats what the fags who sold/traded derivatives off and caused this whole fucking financial meltdown said.

>> No.2589595

>railgun
>bad idea

pick one

>> No.2589596

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Engineer-Science-Problems-Vintage/dp/0307473503/

Go into something besides engineering.

>> No.2589602

Ahahaha...

Oh god.

Well, it depends on the type of engineer. I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing because I really wanted to work for an armor manufacturer, and I actually can identify the test range in the photo.

No, there's plenty of engineering jobs that don't. There's a lot of green engineering and passenger aerospace jobs that I've noticed recently.

>> No.2590065

eepull from

>> No.2590350

Can you engineer a better dick?

>> No.2590380

What, the "military-industrial complex" consists less than 1% of engineering. Most of it is deciding the most efficient way to dig a ditch somewhere.

>> No.2590390

>>2589569
>I wonder what happens when you apply this mindset to all the people that work on those weapons?

People design and manufacture weapons instead of refusing to do so.

>> No.2590396

>>2589420
>but not working on more efficient death rays to kill brown people with.

And just what do you think that brown people are for?