/ENG/ General

[Anonymous No.10441963]

Thread for fellow engineering students and engineers alike to discuss our field and ask questions.

NO CS STUDENTS ALLOWED.

Starting off, Is a minor in Economics useful at all for a Civil major? I want to go into urban planning after graduation and it's possible to do a full econ minor over summer school which would save me 6 months of my time, any advice?

[Anonymous No.10441971]

>>10441963
>NO CS STUDENTS ALLOWED.
>Implying engineering is any better and it's actually math or science
Fuck off >>>/diy/

[Anonymous No.10441973]

>>10441963
EE major here, today was midterm review for one of my classes, and the instructor said at the start of the semester we could take the midterm today. He talked everyone else out of taking it to sit through his lecture, but I wanted to get it done so he literally put me in the storage room to take the exam early. I got 98% but he conceded that the question I got wrong was technically right. He offered to pass me in the class with an A, since I'd already gotten As in more advanced courses. SO, guess I'm done with that class

[Anonymous No.10441976]

hondajet still hasnt called me back yet lads

[Anonymous No.10441979]

>>10441971

angry CS major who's main job competition is an army of pajeetersons

[Anonymous No.10441980]

>>10441963
>engineering
not science or math

[Anonymous No.10441984]

>>10441963
Should I major in quantum electro biomedical engineering or high speed nuclear mechatronics? What kind of jobs are there for each? Can somebody make this important decision for me?

Also inb4 the not science or math bot

[Anonymous No.10441985]

>>10441980
>>10441984
Lel

[Anonymous No.10441988]

>>10441980

first year engineering is literally entirely mathematics, chemistry, physics and MatLab

[Anonymous No.10441991]

>>10441984
I flipped a coin for you and it landed under the couch, I think that means your options are invalid

[Anonymous No.10441993]

>>10441984

biomedical low velocity geology

[Anonymous No.10442016]

>>10441973
Good job on passing Calculus I

[Anonymous No.10442022]

>>10441984
organic astromechanical civil engineering is growing pretty fast. I wouldnt go for it unless you did really well in the E&M portion of physics II though

[Anonymous No.10442074]

I suspect my lab partner (mainlander chinese) is sharing my code (I say my because he contributes almost nothing) with other groups. the work we've done so far is assessed and supposed to be pair collaboration but nothing bad has happened yet since the work is automarked, but next week we start our term projects
should I raise this issue with the TA/professor now?
How fucked am I?

[Anonymous No.10442078]

>>10442074

raise issue asap. We had some middle eastern students completely plagiarize work and then get aggressive when he failed. International students sometimes have this horrible entitlement that they can do anything they like because they're families have money.

[Anonymous No.10442079]

>>10441971
cry harder faggot

[Anonymous No.10442080]

>>10441963
>no cs students allowed

[Anonymous No.10442094]

>>10442074
Yeah, normally I'd say to talk to your partner first but you've gotta cover your ass, just make it clear to the TA that you don't want to personally make accusations and wish to stay out of it

[Anonymous No.10442095]

>>10441963
>Civil major
Soon we will use IA to turn that into automatic shit. We will only have architects who throw their flawed shit into automatic-autocad, and it will turn it into something that actually works.

Enjoy your last years.

[Anonymous No.10442099]

>>10442095

what is this IA you speak of?

[Anonymous No.10442124]

>>10442099
Soon you will learn. >:^)

[Anonymous No.10442197]

>>10442095
t. Cs major with his pathetic if-if-if-if-if machine

[Anonymous No.10442207]

>>10442095
>we will automate you
>hasn't even automated trains yet
Cope

[Anonymous No.10442325]

>>10441963
Why do they call the Plant, plant?

[Anonymous No.10442346]

I'm considering studying aerospace engineering. I was thinking I could start out in ME and specialize if I do well with fluid mechanics/higher-level calc.
I'm hoping y'all can give me advice on what my best course of action would be.

[Anonymous No.10442347]

>>10442346
Forgot image.

[Anonymous No.10442395]

Guys I want to apply to software engineering jobs as an EE. I graduate this semester. What type of projects should I list on my resume. Would fpga be a good one? I did a pong game as my last fpga project for digital design class. Did other projects with a microcontroller and stuff. No internships as well.

[Anonymous No.10442504]

>Easy 4.0 between freshman, sophomore years, first semester junior year
>Now everything is a hard as FUCK group project or test covering 300+ pages of textbook, barely keep Bs and B+s
What the fuck happened? Nobody told me about this difficulty spike

[Anonymous No.10442709]

>>10442504
Just be thankful ur not a brainlet who experienced this freshman year

[Anonymous No.10442722]

>>10442709
I'm just a late-onset brainlet
Either I've got an astonishingly long string of terrible professors or I'm too retarded to go into engineering

[Anonymous No.10442833]

>>10442346
Where would you study? I'm doing my Aerospace Engineering degree at ERAU

[Anonymous No.10442896]

>>10442833
Why ERAU? From everything I've heard it's an ok school for richfags who want to fly

[Anonymous No.10443785]

>>10442833
SUNY Buffalo, though I was also considering studying Mech Eng at CCNY and specializing in Aerospace.

[Anonymous No.10443792]

>>10443785
Well, either specializing in aerospace at that college or transferring into an aerospace program at a different college.

[Anonymous No.10443801]

>>10441971
>Fuck off /diy/

[Anonymous No.10443822]

>>10441993
bioelectromedical low voltage geology*

[Anonymous No.10443880]

>>10442395
Anybody?

[Anonymous No.10443888]

>>10442395
>I want to apply to software engineering jobs as an EE
kys

[Anonymous No.10444220]

>>10443888
why?

[Anonymous No.10444223]

>>10444220
For wanting to be a code monkey

[Anonymous No.10444227]

>>10442395
Software engineering and FPGA design don't have that much overlap. FPGA design is considered more of a hardware job. Either apply for something like that or something else low level like firmware or micro-controller shit

[Anonymous No.10444237]

Threadly reminder for you delusional freshmen that you will literally earn more money putting up drywall on a construction site than you will as an engineer. There is a legitimate shortage of tradesman and an insanely overwhelming overabundance of engineers.

t. actual engineer

[Anonymous No.10444248]

>>10444237
Because there's so many shit stem degrees, I got one. Now I'm working towards an engineering degree and I've already had 2 job offers, and offers for tuition reimbursement and paid class time. Just make sure your degree is in demand and be the most prepared person in the room, that's your job as a student so treat it like it instead of expecting something for showing up and just checking the boxes.

[Anonymous No.10444254]

>>10441980
But a nice, comfortable space in between the two, with a wee bit of construction mixed.

[Anonymous No.10444279]

>>10441963
EE student here, currently struggling with digital systems

[Anonymous No.10444281]

>>10444279
That's one of the easiest EE courses, I suggest you to change to CpE

[Anonymous No.10444283]

>>10442095
AI is a meme. There is a reason faceberg pays panjeets and ocean mexicans to watch flagged gore vids.

[Anonymous No.10444284]

EE here. My internship at an startup that gathers data from solar plants and sells its operators performance reports ends tomorrow. They offered me and the other two interns a part time job for the semester.

Should I accept? My semester is starting next week so I'd have to both work and study and I don't know if it's worth it. The money per hour is around 1.5 times the minimum hourly wage here on my shitty ass country and the work is code monkeying in Python like 90% of the time.

The other interns are pretty convinced it's not worth it because the pay is so low. We'll try to negotiate a bigger share tomorrow. Undergrad about to start 4th year btw.

[Anonymous No.10444288]

>>10444284
Maybe I should add that part time = 20 hours a week

[Anonymous No.10444293]

>>10444279
Analog is so, so much worse. Wait until BJTs and Mosfets. I found those classes the hardest in my EE degree, even harder that EM fields and waves. Fuck small-signal analysis.

The hardest is microwave but those were upper year electives I didn't take.

[Anonymous No.10444311]

>>10442325
Senpais please

[Anonymous No.10444312]

give me a quick rundown on statics and thermodynamics

[Anonymous No.10444331]

>>10444312
Statics is fucking easy, thermo I hear is pretty hard but easier than fluids. But I am an EE and only had to take statics which was fucking easy.

[Anonymous No.10444333]

>>10444288
If you have zero other engineering experience I would consider it. The pay sucks but graduating without doing an internship is a rough path

[Anonymous No.10444342]

>>10444333
I'm already doing my first internship there. Tomorrow is my last day if I don't take their offer.

[Anonymous No.10444344]

do you guys have any recommended resources for learning python and C? I dont wanna br one of those folks who only know matlab

[Anonymous No.10444345]

>>10442346
Most of the aerospace engineers I've worked with did not major in aerospace, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. Definitely go AE for your Master's, though.

[Anonymous No.10444346]

>>10444344
>>>/g/

[Anonymous No.10444357]

>>10444344
Find a project that interests you and start. Seriously, fill in the blanks as you go, watch youtube videos. C and Python have very different purposes if you want to do something high-level use python if you want to play with embedded use C.

Doing a project will keep you motivated vs. just reading a text book

[Anonymous No.10444369]

>>10444281
I'm just not able to make it a priority at the moment because of my calc 1 class

[Anonymous No.10444379]

>>10444369
Calc 1, boyo you don't even know.

[Anonymous No.10444380]

like poetry

[Anonymous No.10444395]

how do i get a girlfriend? im tall and Id ssy Im a 7/10

[Anonymous No.10444401]

>>10444369
Lmao

>>10444395
>tall
Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.10444406]

>>10444395
Go to /fit/, eat keto, and lift

[Anonymous No.10444408]

lol @ this seething manlet

[Anonymous No.10444409]

>>10444227
I figured that much, thank you for the confirmation. But, what would you say is a relevant project to go into SE? just an example to kind of get where in the ballpark I should invest time for future job prospects.

[Anonymous No.10444414]

>>10444409
Why do you want to compete with pajeets anyway? You are pretty much wasting your EE degree

[Anonymous No.10444421]

>>10444369
How are you allowed to take digital design class while in calculus 1? I dont think I ever saw anyone in circuit analysis class that didnt finish multivariable calculus, let alone in digital design.

[Anonymous No.10444424]

>>10444409
The language doesn't matter. Pick one and learning it well. For an EE C makes the most sense unless you are into controls than Python is getting more common (still mostly matlab).

[Anonymous No.10444425]

>>10444421
This. You need calculus for basic circuits and digital is always after circuits 1

[Anonymous No.10444430]

Im not a US citizen.
Is over there a degree such as Systems Engineering? What does it entail?

[Anonymous No.10444437]

>>10444414
Ive always liked coding, took extra coding classes just out of interest. Hardware is also interesting, but I wouldnt mind an SE job at some point in my career.

[Anonymous No.10444440]

>>10444344
"Learn Python the Hard Way" if you're into being given an exercise to complete instead of reading through paragraphs of shit. But be warned, this book polarizes people, some love it and some think it's retarded. It's easy to find a PDF of it on the usual torrent sites.

[Anonymous No.10444446]

>>10444312
Statics is like the first 5 chapters of Physics I but with cooler pictures.
>thermodynamics
>being in a discipline that requires thermo
that's a "Yikes" from me, sweaty

[Anonymous No.10444452]

>>10441963
Why all the hate towards CS majors? Is it because we make twice as much money for half as much work?

[Anonymous No.10444463]

>>10444452
Because this thread is about engineering and CSfags always come here pretending to be engineers when they don't belong here.

[Anonymous No.10444472]

>>10444463
Hmm but that image makes you seem a bit bitter I think.

[Anonymous No.10444482]

>>10444437
If you like coding you should try to go to embedded systems honestly, going to SE after getting an EE degree is a huge waste considering any pajeet can work as a software dev and very few people are able to major in EE

[Anonymous No.10444489]

>>10444463
So he's right then.

[Anonymous No.10444490]

>>10444482
If you have the math chops do DSP. DSP is based, the math gets intense when you start using wavelet transforms

[Anonymous No.10444492]

>>10444482
This is wrong.

You fucking college students need to stop giving career advice. How the fuck can you know what you're talking about if you have never had a job?

[Anonymous No.10444499]

>>10441963
>Economics
I'm a mech eng master student graduating this year.
At my uni, everyone does a second undergraduate major. I chose economics as mine.
Economics is a shit subject when compared to something like mathematics or engineering. You start with some very simple axioms and from that make extremely easy derivations.
Another problem with economics is it has little prediction power because the axioms are not fundamental enough and the underlying properties of the real world change faster than data can be collected.
Not saying it's useless, but reading one good macroecon and one good microecon textbook and then becoming an expert at mathematics is a better path.

[Anonymous No.10444501]

>>10444499
Do you have a job lined up? Or do you have prior work experience?

[Anonymous No.10444507]

>>10442395
>I did a pong game
That's a YIKE from me dawg.
That's literally the first thing someone does when they want to learn how to make games. You are at square one.

[Anonymous No.10444516]

>>10444430
Never seen a systems engineering degree, but a systems engineering job is typically a high-level, almost management electrical engineering job.

[Anonymous No.10444518]

>>10444492
Keep telling yourself that CSlet

[Anonymous No.10444525]

>check school’s degree plan for chemistry majors
>the only core class chemical engineering doesn’t also include is inorganic
Fuck these pussies

[Anonymous No.10444526]

>>10444518
I work as a controls engineer. You are a child spouting memes about something you have no expetience with.

[Anonymous No.10444528]

>>10444518 #
I work as a controls engineer. You are a child spouting memes about something you have no experience with.

[Anonymous No.10444531]

>>10444501
No job lined up but my last internship told me to keep in contact.
I've had two past internships with consultancies in the oil+gas industry doing flow assurance, corrosion, machine learning and excel/VBA and python workflow automation.

[Anonymous No.10444550]

>>10444531
>No job lined up but my last internship told me to keep in contact
lol, good luck

[Anonymous No.10444559]

Currently at QUT for engineering. I could go with either "Computer and Software Systems" or Electrical.

The difference is between the two is basically 4 units, electrical having some advanced units while C&S has some advanced programming units (e.g. cloud computing, parallel computing).

I'm pretty split with what to choose. I think electrical engineer has more eminence for jobs but I'm not sure.

[Anonymous No.10444564]

>>10444559
I'd assume you're right since poos can't afford an oscilloscope

[Anonymous No.10444602]

>>10444559
Electrical, every major that contains the word "Computer" is a meme.

[Anonymous No.10444607]

Lads I'm a freshmen at Purdue about to go into the AAE program.

[Anonymous No.10444613]

>>10444607
Fuck, rest of post was supposed to ask if there are enough AAE jobs or should I switch to ME or EE.

[Anonymous No.10444642]

Graduating in May with a BS in physics. (Texas.) Yeah, not engineering, but close enough. Can someone tell me how the fuck i find places to apply to? Or better yet, just give me a short list of places? Indeed seems like a total waste of time.

[Anonymous No.10444669]

>>10444642
I got my MS in Physics from A&M in 2013. At first I struggled and kept my job at Fed Ex for a year. Then I decided to get a teaching certificate and became a substitute teacher and a tutor. After I got certified I couldn't get a teaching position. Then attempted to go into banking and work my way up but I never got an interview for any teller positions, but then an old buddy from high school who was a trucker told me he could hook me up with a freight dispatcher position and thats what I do now

[Anonymous No.10444756]

>>10444345
Danke.

[Anonymous No.10445113]

Holy shit, this thread is full of life-ruining meme advice. It's the blind leading the blind.

[Anonymous No.10445179]

>>10445113
That happens when dealing with undergrads.

[Anonymous No.10445230]

>>10444669
Wow I would've killed myself

[Anonymous No.10445258]

Finally got my first job /sci/. It's not much, and not what I was hoping to be doing, but it's a full time position at 18/hr working on a year long project for a company, with a strong probability to go into a real engineering position after the project concludes. It's not really a company I want to stay with, but it'll be nice to have the option in a year in case I can't get my foot in the door anywhere else. Good for a resume padder.

Thanks for all the help over the years.

[Anonymous No.10445276]

>>10445258
>$18/hr
This thread is making me depressed
I have a friend with an internship at $25/hr and I have a job lined up after I graduate for $65k/yr
Is it the autism that is making it so you guys can't get good jobs?

[Anonymous No.10445293]

>>10444421
Idk. I guess its just how my school works. I met the prerequs,

[Anonymous No.10445295]

>>10445276
Nah. I just had no professional engineering experience. I can hold my own in conversations, don't get me wrong, but I am still kind of a sperg deep down. I just kind of failed to network and didn't push myself to get experience until it was too late. (reality hadn't set in). I also live in a pretty competitive state as far as engineering goes.

I'm purely using this as a stepping stone, and once im settled in, it gives me the safety I need to work hard on my other marketable skills so I don't get fucked by the high cost of living. I'm not super mad by any stretch of the imagination, I just wish I could have made 20/hr so I could be a little more comfortable, but gotta do what you gotta do. (mech E btw)

[Anonymous No.10445304]

>>10444248
which major and which jobs at which companies? Is tuition reimbursement even a thing anymore?

[Anonymous No.10445343]

>>10445295
>pretty competitive state as far as engineering goes
which states are competitive? Which are uncompetitive?

[Anonymous No.10445354]

>>10445276
>$65k/yr
>good
CS *interns* make $90k

[Anonymous No.10445402]

>>10445354
$90 in San Francisco << $60 in the mid west

[Anonymous No.10445410]

>>10445354
I'm going military so my pay kinda sucks but the benefits and programz
Didn't imply $65k was good, but $18 is pure shit

[Anonymous No.10445419]

Should I put sunscreen film on my windows when light and heat is only a problem 2-3 months of the year?
Living in scandinavia where everything is fine and dandy, but when summer finally comes around the sun goes fucking nova, making my apartment a goddamn oven.

[Anonymous No.10445707]

>>10445419
i fucking hate snowniggers
anything below 35C is not hot

[Anonymous No.10445789]

>>10441963
Tell me about quantum computing /eng/

[Anonymous No.10445799]

Working on a method for assessing the condition of the bearings on this spillway gate.
Given [math]µ=0.20[/math] as friction coefficient for the GE140 bearings, it sums out to roughly 16624 Nm of static friction. We assume static friction since it is slow (20 minutes to open). Now compare that to the water load, which is about 815100 Nm.
The friction is about 2 % of the load the hydraulic cylinder has to work against when closing the gate.

For clarification: you're looking at the downstream side of the gate. It pivots about the axis around the arrows. The hydraulic cylinder is in reality coupled to the leftmost end of the axle with an arm.

[Anonymous No.10445800]

>>10445343
I live in Colorado, and while we have a lot of engineering, we also have a lot of engineers. (I blame dude weed faggots if I'm being frank)

Everyone reports that their engineering grads have jobs because you can't live up in northern Colorado off savings unless you are a rich fag. So more of us end up wage slaving and trying to collect scraps at the bottom.

[Anonymous No.10445873]

>>10444293
>Fuck small-signal analysis
amen to that

[Anonymous No.10445921]

Junior in mechanical engineering here
How tf do I internship
I have been applying non-stop and not getting interviews. I haven't had any past engineering experience.
Pls help I am retarded and going to blow my brains out if I have to spend another summer working for minimum wage and no experience

[Anonymous No.10445939]

It's almost time for me to choose my Engineering major, and I can't decide between Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering.

They both have courses on electrical machines, industrial automation, and power electronics.

But Electrical Engineering has more circuit theory classes (3 vs 1), as well as power generation plants design, high voltage systems and some others.

Electronics, on the other hand, has robotics, analog and digital electronics (microprocessor design) and a couple more classes on electronic digital systems and industrial informatics.

My main interest within the field of EE is industrial automation, but maybe electronics would be too specific and I want to keep my options open.

What would you recommend?

[Anonymous No.10446158]

>>10445304
Yeah I'm not doxxing myself but yes

[Anonymous No.10446183]

I don't know whether to go into maths, CS, EE (or maybe even CE). help me.

>maths
I like math the most, but don't want to work at McDonalds and PhDs sound like slave labor and being a high school teacher sounds even worse. I'm pretty interested in finance, so maybe there's a good niche there if I take the right classes.

>CS
I think working as a programmer would be ok (I program recreationally), but I imagine a lot of the tasks would be extremely tedious as a real day job. Not to mention the issue of outsourcing and the push from google and friends to make everyone a programmer and drive wages. Big plus here is the opportunity to work remotely if things go well.

>EE
I've just started screwing around with building circuits on breadboards. It seems like a stable path to go, but the work strikes me as extremely mundane.

[Anonymous No.10446199]

Finally got a internship after 3 years of failure

Working for a major east coast railroad this summer. Not extaclly what I was expecting, but I'm excited for the opportunity. Pros outweigh the cons.

[Anonymous No.10446209]

>>10441971
Imagine being this butthurt

[Anonymous No.10446219]

>>10444430
Several schools have some form of industrial or systems engineering. Rutgers and Va Tech are two I am aware of.

[Anonymous No.10446228]

>>10446183
who dis?

[Anonymous No.10446272]

>>10444312
Statics is arguably the easiest of engineering sciences. It deals with static (not moving) bodies, which includes almost all structures and the elements with which they are built.

Thermodynamics is the study of matter when it goes through changes in pressure, temperature and volume when subjected to heat, work, acceleration or change in potential energy. For many reasons I won't go into here, it mostly deals with matter in the gaseous phase and mixtures, while solids are dealt in Material Science and pure Liquids in Fluid Mechanics. However, both subjects basically study the same properties of matter. That's not to say Material Science never studies liquids or gases, nor that Fluid Mechanics never deals with solids or gases.

[Anonymous No.10446296]

>be me, senior EE about to graduate
>only two job possibilities are in A&E
>one offers me 56k in a midsized Midwestern city
The problem is that both companies are looking for someone who will stick around for 10+ years and do repetitive shit indefinitely. My plan is to stick around for 3 or 4, but I didn't tell them that. During that time I'm hoping to get some cool projects and improve my skills, and then work my way up to something more interesting. I'm only 21, so I wouldn't feel too bad doing something lame until I'm 25. I just don't want to do something terrible to the company after 4 years by leaving. If they knew what I planned to do then they wouldn't hire me. The upside is the that the benefits and vacation are decent, and 56k is a literal fortune to me right now as a student. I just hope I can make it 4 years doing cad shit without killing myself.
Thanks for reading my blog. Advice?

[Anonymous No.10446312]

>>10446296
I also don't know exactly what I'm interested in. I plan on doing CS projects, learning more algorithms, embedded systems stuff, some more FPGA stuff, and then doing a more in-depth study in transistors and analog devices n shit. My GPA is shit (2.75) and I'm ADHD as fuck. I figure if I can get my shit together once I have a consistent schedule then I can become a really well-rounded ECE.

[Anonymous No.10446338]

>>10446183
Do math and CS together. I'm ECE and that's what I wish I had done. Math proves you aren't just a retarded code monkey, and CS gives you enough computer experience to be employable. Take some statistics classes early on and figure out if that's what you want to get into.

[Anonymous No.10446366]

>tfw cs major
>tfw not allowed to post on this thread

Anyone else knows this feel?

[Anonymous No.10446390]

>>10445939
>but maybe electronics would be too specific and I want to keep my options
electronics major here. keep your options open. i love it, but you don't sound certain and i don't see why you would needlessly specialize when you can just do ee

[Anonymous No.10446394]

>>10445921
>How tf do I internship
pray and just do everything you can outside of internships just in case you cant get one

[Anonymous No.10446400]

>>10446296
>>10446312
advice is who fucking cares if they want you to stick around for 10 years. it's none of their business how long you are staying, 4 years is generous you would be doing them a favor and you should think of it like that.

your plan is solid. take the job, make the fortune, and you'll be mid20s with years of engi experience and your options wide open. ur lucky kid

[Anonymous No.10446463]

>>10445402
90k working remote >>>>>>> 60k in the midwest

[Anonymous No.10446467]

>>10446312
if you don't mind life sucking till you're 25 consider grad school at a top uni if you can get in.

[Anonymous No.10446563]

>>10446366
What's wrong with it? This is an engineering thread, not a CS one, we wouldn't be hostile about it if you guys didn't post CS questions all the time here.

[Anonymous No.10446712]

>>10441963
EE here about to finish my Bachelor's degree. Currently working a job and hardware security and liking it. I've been working about 2 months so far, I like what I'm working with and I have an interest in hardware design.
One issue, they do not pay for Master's programs. I'm currently 22 (almost 23) and I'd like to finish my Master's sometime before I'm 26-28. My father made the mistake waiting too long and having a job and a son in the process. I'm only an intern at my current job, so it would be somewhat easy to leave before they try to make me into full time.
I should probably also add the project I am working on is in an early stage, the company pays slightly less than other contractors in my area (not too much of an issue, I have 0 student loans), and I live in an area with multiple contractors for the Air Force.
Suggestions on if I should hunt for another job or not?

[Anonymous No.10446722]

>>10446712
Masters degree's are worthless dont get one. Get married and pop out as many kids as you can if you're white. If you're not white go to grad school and do whatever you like just dont have kids

[Anonymous No.10446724]

>>10446712
you should always be job hunting. When you get an offer, THEN you decide if you want to leave or not.

[Anonymous No.10446776]

>>10446722
I have seen people with just normal MBA's able to get in higher position simply for having it. I'd rather not be stuck at the level as a junior/senior engineer my entire life. I have more social skills than the average pleb at my work, I'd eventually like to manage projects.
Also yeah I'm white, I planned on having multiple kids eventually.

>>10446724
I understand that, finding another job would be easy I assume. I'm curious if leaving the current company for something else and assuming my other job would be worth higher education. Then again as said before, master's aren't always the end-all-be-all. I'd like to get it over if I plan on having kids soon.

[Anonymous No.10446786]

>>10446722
I'm not white and I'll pop as many kids as I want wyt boy what you gonna do about it?

[Anonymous No.10446867]

>>10441963
Hey OP, I'm coming from the exact opposite direction. I'm about to earn my master's in urban planning and am looking at adding a dual masters degree in civil engineering even though I have no engineering background. I've been accepted into the program but I'm trying to see if I could balance it with a full-time transportation planning job I have.

I don't see an economics major as particularly useful. Most urban planners in major cities have a master's degree and master's in urban planning don't require a relevant undergrad so you have people with random, otherwise useless degrees. There is some economic analysis with urban planning (many if not most economic development professionals have a degree in planning) but it otherwise isn't super helpful in my experience. Do you have an engineering economics for civil engineers course you can take? I would at least recommend microeconomics.

If you are looking to add a minor or skills related to planning I highly recommend learning GIS. GIS skills are pretty much required for any entry level urban planner and civil engineers will use GIS programs either directly or through other programs that use an ArcGIS license.

Going into urban planning from a civil engineering background can be very valuable. When I worked in consulting I learned "An engineer can always do a planner's work but a planner can never do a engineer's work". There are fields that overlap like travel forecasting that are covered in some planning schools but are typically more civil engineering related.

Let me know if you have any questions about urban planning.

[Anonymous No.10446868]

>>10446867
oh and join us on /n/ for our Urban Planning General

>>>/n/upg

[Anonymous No.10446876]

>>10445799
Nice. What do you think of 3DExperience? I mess with CATIA and it's FEM tools every once in a while, but I'd never trust it, and it's hard to apply sophisticated connections or BCs.

[Anonymous No.10447010]

what do you guys like better altera or xilinx based fpga's? I used an altera, so we used vhdl and its was ok, not sure which one to buy, does it matter?

[Anonymous No.10447018]

>sent nearly 150 applications
>2 interviews
>nothing
>got in contact with a Sr. Eng through a contact
>job offer the next week
Feels so good I can't explain, I am so grateful. How are you guys applying? It seems networking really is the only way to go.

[Anonymous No.10447022]

>>10446712 >>10446296 >>10446183 >>10445939 >>10444279 >>10444284 >>10441973
>EE major here
All engineers are brainlets.
Physics or Math PhDs are superior.
Prove me wrong.

[Anonymous No.10447023]

>>10447018
how'd you meet this guy?

[Anonymous No.10447026]

>>10447022
nobody cares about your opinion stupid freshman.

[Anonymous No.10447032]

>>10447023
My mother works with a guy who has a load of contacts in our city. This guy forwarded a few contacts, one of whom hired me. I know that I am very lucky, but wanted to share my experience. There as some people who will send literally thousands of apps, but perhaps the time is better spent building a network?

[Anonymous No.10447058]

>>10447010
Both are good

[Anonymous No.10447118]

>>10447022
>P-prove me wrong
>Provides no reason to backup response 2/10 b8

[Anonymous No.10447130]

>>10447022
Your major has too much obesity and autism, I couldn't handle the smells. Solving problems shouldn't result in labored breathing that can be heard from across the room.

[Anonymous No.10447275]

>>10447058
Think im gonna buy a xilinx based one. Some of the job listings specify verilog only rather than vhdl.

[Anonymous No.10447285]

>>10446366
Coulda been a computer engineer or software "engineer" but you chose neither

[Anonymous No.10447304]

>>10447285
software "engineers" are not wanted here either.

[Anonymous No.10447357]

>>10447275
Verilog and vhdl aren't vendor specific, they're just the two standard HDL languages.

[Anonymous No.10447395]

>>10446467
not with a 2.5

[Anonymous No.10447461]

>soldering station
>multimeter
>precision screwdriver set
>raspberry pi 3
>Arduino uno
>set of resistors
>set of jumper cables
>breadboard
What else should I get to help start making little devices and programming microcontrollers?

[Anonymous No.10447504]

Can someone in EE help me with this?
>>10447499

[Anonymous No.10447517]

Explain to me why it would he a bad idea to make my own XYZ adjustable head (like for a 3d printer or CNC router) out some nuts, some threaded rods, a microcontroller and some motors.

Why is this so uncommon compared to machines using track bands?

[Anonymous No.10447530]

>>10447022

[Anonymous No.10447540]

>>10446338
is math major and cs minor good enough? assuming github is active and stuff, which it already is

[Anonymous No.10447541]

>>10447540
i’ll probably double major both anyway, it’s only a few more classes amywau

[Anonymous No.10447759]

CivE grad here, what are some resources I can use to polish up my basic knowledge while I look for work? I spent the last year doing just my thesis and don't have any of my lecture notes any more, I just want to keep on top of everything just in case I get asked an easy question in an interview and totally blank

[Anonymous No.10447770]

>>10447540
No. Minors are absolutely worthless. Ignore the meme advice from underage retards and just study CS, as double majoring in math will only score you street cred on an autistic anime imageboard.

[Anonymous No.10447785]

>>10447304
Tell me: is ordering parts from a catalog and copy-pasting spreadsheets in Excel for 60 hours a week "real" engineering? Because once you grow up and leave college, you will realize that is all that 90% of "real" engineers do for their job. FFS, you college freshmen are so insufferable and have no business being engineers.

t. "real" engineer

[Anonymous No.10447786]

>used to think I was pretty smart
>The only positive thing I felt about myself
>turns out I'm actually a dumb fuck brainlet who is getting worse by the year due to depression
>Family is in shit, abusive narcs, mental illness, don't talk to any of them anymore unless absolutely necessary
>Terrible social skills, awful social esteem, no confidence in myself anymore, just a pathetic piece of shit
>Feel like throwing myself of the roof of the library on a regular basis
>65% average in comp eng, one year left, feel completely retarded in my classes, don't even know how to put together a basic circuit, my brain is especially retarded when it comes to putting physical things together
>No interest in it, no interest in anything
>Can't keep friends, always end up gradually fading out of everyone's lives, don't even try anymore I'm obviously not worth keeping up contact with
>Only relationship I had was with a borderline who made everything in ny life worse, would prefer to still be a virgin
>Completely alone and I can genuinely say that nobody gives a shit about me

My life has never really been worth living bros, I have no idea why I haven't offed myself yet. I've been clinically depressed for nearly 10 years now, it never gets better

[Anonymous No.10447811]

>>10447786
What's your 10K run time?
If it's more than 40 minutes, then I have an easy solution to your depression.

[Anonymous No.10447824]

>>10447811
Cardio kills gains you wouldn't want him not to be able to build muscle

[Anonymous No.10448065]

What's the correct way to determine whether a pin has received voltage (say in case a button is pushed)?

For example, do MCUs have an interrupt for when a pin receives voltage or do you have to query every pin with a loop constantly?

[Anonymous No.10448097]

>>10442325
Control theory was initially developed by chemical engineers working in factories. So even though e&e has assimilated control engineering we still use the terminology from the past

[Anonymous No.10448106]

>>10444293
I'm currently taking microwave devices and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. It's quite different to traditional electronics. Would recommend if you enjoy EM

[Anonymous No.10448259]

>>10446876
Thank you. The results seems reasonable to some degree, but have yet to get a professional to look at it. 3DExperience is at times unnecessarly complicated, eg. assigning properties to sections, joining parts and getting them meshed and, as you say, boundary conditions. Don't get me started on the view controls, though.
I have seen for example a specific function for applying static friction from a bearing, but I'll probably going to end up calculating the friction moments manually and then apply them as a simple moment about the bearing surfaces.

We were given signal amplifiers for the strain gages, made by last year's students. My concern is whether or not they'll be able to discern the difference between 5.95 and 3.73 MPa, which is the largest calculated difference in a accessible part of the structure.
Why those students spent so much time designing and making those PCBs is beyond me, when Arduino modules made for this purpose cost $5.

[Anonymous No.10448273]

>>10441963
I want to switch to math major, I just don't want to deal with engineering work hours anymore.

[Anonymous No.10448737]

>>10447770
I tend to agree, but also feel that a CS minor is a potential exception, as it puts the stamp of "knows how to code" on my resume, which, coupled with an active github, is all employers seem to want.

>math will only score you street cred on an autistic anime imageboard
perfect, math it is

[Anonymous No.10448743]

>>10447785
>ordering parts from a catalog and copy-pasting spreadsheets in Excel for 60 hours a week
this is why I NOPEd out of engineering. the cirriculum and title looks cool enough, but the work is shit tier

[Anonymous No.10448772]

>>10448743
what are you doing now?

[Anonymous No.10448796]

>>10448097
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.10448814]

>>10448743
wow that sounds awful, you poor thing!!

[Anonymous No.10448908]

ok so I get to lead the ieee student branch at my uni for the next two years

Please tell me this shit looks good on a resume and I didn’t just take on a pointless load of work

[Anonymous No.10449324]

>>10448743
I'd say it depends on the job and the company you work for. Sometimes days are good, some days are shit.

[Anonymous No.10449582]

anyone doing graduate work in heat and mass transfer or something along those lines?

how did you find the research subject that interests you?

[Anonymous No.10449604]

>>10448259
Yeah, I can imagine that it's ungainly. Did they literally just plop in Abaqus, or did they at least make it a little more user friendly? Tried messing with Abaqus once. Obviously, it gives you a lot of control, but I'd never want to use it regularly. I'd choose Patran/Nastran over Abaqus any day, and Patran is shit.

Good learning experience for the students I guess, but yes, those are crazy low stress levels. I don't know much about strain gauges, but it seems you have your work cut out for you if you want to try to capture that. If it's just a test article, and you're just validating the FEM, I'd almost think about cutting a notch or something at the strain measurement location to increase the strain there, and replicate the notch in the model, and correlate that way. Good luck!

[Anonymous No.10449944]

About to finish my junior year of chemE. I'm not a stellar student (3.1gpa), I don't go to a brand name school. I'm pretty fucking scared of my future prospects. I don't want to be living in some town of 20,000 people, working at the local refinery only making 50k-60k a year. I'm honestly debating about applying to a masters program for CS. If pharmacy wasn't so oversaturated, I'd try applying to a pharm school instead.

[Anonymous No.10449955]

would you guys rather be codemonkeys or CADmonkeys?

[Anonymous No.10449990]

>>10448908
That's some solid leadership experience nigger

[Anonymous No.10450050]

How important would you say GPA is?
I'm a junior right now, and I have the chance to start fresh.
I'm taking 4 classes right now, 2 of which I think are pretty much guaranteed A's. However, for the other 2 classes, I might end up with a B. It's going to be tough getting both As, but I'm still going to try.

[Anonymous No.10450052]

>>10448065
Depends on the language and hardware I think. My experience with arduino was that you couldn't just do things without continually checking the input, but then you'd need to set your circuit up to deliver a consistent enough voltage. I'm sure an EE fag can chime in better, but that was my most recent experience with just some basic shit

[Anonymous No.10450102]

>>10450050
>How important would you say GPA is?
Much more important than it should be. GPA determines whether you get internships. Internships determine whether you get jobs.

[Anonymous No.10450110]

>>10449944
>don't want to be living in some town of 20,000 people, working at the local refinery only making 50k-60k a year.
Could be a lot worse. I work in a big, expensive city on construction sites for $62k a year. The job you just described would be an improvement, actually.

[Anonymous No.10450144]

>>10450110
pros and cons to both situations. You live in a big city where you can do things and meet new people but you dont have alot of money.

in a town of 20,000 the only people i'd get to know are my coworkers and they would all likely be older people that I wouldn't connect with on a personal level. because of the smaller town I live in, my 60k would be the equivalent of 80k or something but I'd literally have no friends and nothing to do beyond masturbating and playing games at home.

[Anonymous No.10450328]

>>10448814
doing quite well but thanks, glad i’m not doing that shit tier stuff

[Anonymous No.10450340]

>>10448772
taking math/cs classes instead

[Anonymous No.10450401]

>>10448065
In theory, it is always incomparably more efficient to use a sort of interrupt routine, rather than polling (constantly checking wether every pin has changed its value). Polling simply takes up too much processor time with useless instructions. That's why almost every computer system has a sort of interrupt mechanism that you should learn how to use. If you are doing an Arduino project google something like "arduino interrupt".

[Anonymous No.10450891]

>>10445789
Anybody?

[Anonymous No.10451268]

>>10450144
Did you have internships? I'd you show companies you can work, they won't care about a 3.1. 3.1 isn't amazing, but it's not terrible. It's probably around the average, and the average chemE salary is way higher than 50-60k. And your school doesn't matter much after your first job, especially for stem grads. From a WSJ article "But for fields like science, technology, engineering and math, it largely doesn’t matter whether students go to a prestigious, expensive school or a low-priced one—expected earnings turn out the same."

[Anonymous No.10451370]

It's coming, nice choise.
http://seawolfexpress.eu/

[Anonymous No.10451432]

>>10450401
>>10448065
Arduino depending on the chip should have pin state change interrupts, which generally interrupt your main loop and immediately perform whatever action is in them. Just check which pins actually have those, Atmega328 for example only had pin specific interrupts on a few of those.

[Anonymous No.10452484]

>>10451432
Yes. Seems like Arduino uno only has two pins for interrupts.

Hypothetically, if you were making a keyboard with many buttons would it be correct to wire every button to a single interrupt pin (as well as other pins obviously) just so you know when something is being pressed?

[Anonymous No.10452494]

>>10451268
>From a WSJ article "But for fields like science, technology, engineering and math, it largely doesn’t matter whether students go to a prestigious, expensive school or a low-priced one—expected earnings turn out the same."
I can tell you right now this is not true.

[Anonymous No.10452874]

>>10452494
This. Ivy league is for politicians and lawyers and there is no room for non-Jewish white people

[Anonymous No.10452877]

>>10449944
Small towns are comfy as fuck. Marry a simple farmers daughter and have a bunch of children. Go fishing and hunting on the weekends

[Anonymous No.10452903]

>>10450328
Hell yeah man round of applause!

[Anonymous No.10452910]

>>10449955
answer me you unemployed faggots

[Anonymous No.10452942]

How to not make my circuits look like hot shit? Should I bring a set of my own wires to lab so I can color code? I'm not autistic enough to cut wires to length every time for something I just tear up after lab

[Anonymous No.10453139]

>>10452494
Also from the article "we controlled for numerous other factors that might influence postgraduation earnings, such as family income, race/ethnicity, gender, marital status, SAT score, postgraduate degree and age at graduation and more."

What they found isn't that students from worse schools earn the same as students from ivy leagues. What they found is that if the same person went to an ivy league or a state school for STEM, it wouldn't make a statistically significant difference in earnings. The people in ivy leagues are generally smarter than the people in other schools, and that is what seems to matter. Compared to liberal arts curriculums, STEM curriculums are more standardized as well.

[Anonymous No.10453153]

I JUST WANTED TO BE A FUCKING DATA SCIENTIST I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD THERES NO JOBS THERES NOTHING OUT HERE FOR CS GRADS IM GONNA FUCKING KILL MYSELF

[Anonymous No.10453244]

>>10453153
>CS
the word "engineer" isnt in your job title, this thread is not for you

[Anonymous No.10453290]

>>10453139
What a load of shit.

God I hate social sciences.

[Anonymous No.10453336]

>>10453290
I think this is cherry picked to only pick Economists for the social science category. Because god knows sociologists arent making a penny over minimum wage

[Anonymous No.10453354]

>>10453336
My soc 101 professor in uni landed a 6 figure job through an unrelated business with a soc degree because he was diversity hired for being (in his own words) a sand-nigger

[Anonymous No.10453368]

Should I quit my job to join some clubs? I don’t necessarily need the money, but you never know when stuff comes up.

[Anonymous No.10453376]

>>10453153
So why are you complaining in an engineering thread?
>>>/g/

[Anonymous No.10453454]

>>10452903
thanks guy, was hoping you had another uplifting thing for me today

[Anonymous No.10453472]

Starting my master's at USC in the fall. What should I expect? Is it easy to transition to a PhD if I wanted to? Is it a good school?

[Anonymous No.10453510]

>>10453472
You’re already enrolled for a masters program this fall and now you ask if it’s a good school?

[Anonymous No.10453514]

Doing my bachelor in CS and biochemistry. I love listening to cum-slurping """"""engineer""""" students in this thread complaining about CS. Keep crying dogs!

[Anonymous No.10453523]

>>10453510
Yes

[Anonymous No.10453531]

>>10441963
I love how they just kept stapling engines to their engines.

[Anonymous No.10453643]

>>10441963
Civil engineering isn't engineering any more than CS is

[Anonymous No.10453672]

>>10453139
How would you even test this? Twin studies? Are there even enough?

[Anonymous No.10453673]

>>10452942
>how not to make circuits look like hot shit
>I'm not autistic enough to cut wires to length every time for something I just tear up after lab
then there is no way

[Anonymous No.10454270]

>>10453336
Did you read the part that says "top ranked schools for salary potential"

[Anonymous No.10454279]

>>10453643
Hate to break it to you kiddo, but very little of your job will be actual engineering if you work as any kind of engineer. It is mostly just paperwork and excel.

[Anonymous No.10454346]

>>10442833
I am either going to ERAU Prescott or Virginia Tech. Would it feasible to negotiate for a higher scholarship, because thats the only way I'm affording ERAU.

[Anonymous No.10454352]

>>10441963
>NO CS STUDENTS ALLOWED.
im cs student fite me
ur bad

[Anonymous No.10454446]

>>10441963
>NO CS
Are memes a form of computer science?

[Anonymous No.10454540]

OP didn't even insult CS majors yet all the butthurt CS students are shitting up this thread just because they aren't allowed in an engineering thread in spite of not being engineers

[Anonymous No.10454547]

>>10453368
>quit my job to join some clubs
if you got the money for it then yeah. employers aren't going to see your resume and think "if only this guy worked at mcdonalds for 6 more months". the fact that you have the work experience is all that matters, now network and join clubs and shit my nigga

[Anonymous No.10454551]

>>10442833
>theres another person at riddle in /eng/
what year are you in?

[Anonymous No.10455622]

>>10453673
Is it worth trying to develop that degree of autism?

[Anonymous No.10456068]

>>10448065
When configuring the MCU you can enable interrupts on your pins, this is infinitely better than just continuously checking your pins especially if your designing for a low power system

[Anonymous No.10456583]

Can't decide on civil or mech

Reeee

[Anonymous No.10456613]

>>10456068
How does one configure the marvel cinematic universe?

[Anonymous No.10456638]

>>10456583
Do neither and join the CS gang

>>10454540
We are engineers though and highly demanded in the current job market. This is not your safe space, libshit.

[Anonymous No.10456679]

Doing a masters in telecommunications and wireless in September. What fundamentals should I learn to prepare?

[Anonymous No.10456697]

>>10456638
>CS gang
I don't want to be a code monkey though. Not a burger either so programmers don't make that much here either.

[Anonymous No.10456759]

>>10456638
>we are engineers
No, you aren't. What is it with you fags? You don't even have a real track to become a certified engineer. Fucking hell.

[Anonymous No.10456826]

>>10456759
Yes I do cum-slurper

>>10456697
You can do biomedical engineering, robotics, machine engineering etc. with a bsc in cs.

[Anonymous No.10456893]

>>10456826
>You can do biomedical engineering, robotics, machine engineering etc. with a bsc in cs.
sure but the CS courses are boring so why would I

[Anonymous No.10457259]

MechE undergrad, in my third year. My uni's offering a BSMS program. Thinking of doing it, but I get a choice of MS, so I'm not sure. I'm interested in other subjects like Maths and CS, and I feel like those will be attractive degrees, but I also get the feeling it'll look bad on a resume (stretching myself too thin, I guess). Should I stick to MechE or is it safe to do something else? Better yet, is there another MS that "pairs well" with Mech, if that makes sense?

[Anonymous No.10457260]

>>10457259
No, doubling down on a major with questionable job prospects is a very poor decision. Us the CS MS as a hedge against the ME employment market. It will also open up some of the more desireable robotics jobs.

[Anonymous No.10457262]

>>10456826
>You can do biomedical engineering, robotics, machine engineering etc. with a bsc in cs.
HAHAHAHAHAHA, no.

[Anonymous No.10457270]

>ooga booga me type on keyboard
lol

[Anonymous No.10457450]

>>10457262
You literally can though? I'm talking about a master

[Anonymous No.10457623]

>>10456638
>we are engineers
>No PE exam for computer science
?????

[Anonymous No.10457627]

how fucked am i for grad school applications if i graduate in december this year and have 0 research experience so far

[Anonymous No.10458351]

>>10456583
Do you want to design a steel bridge or the gusset plate for that steel bridge?

[Anonymous No.10458567]

>>10456638
>CS gang
What do you call a pack of Indian rapists?

[Anonymous No.10458584]

>>10456638
>We are engineers though
>You can do masters in engineering with a bsc in cs
pick one retard

[Anonymous No.10458596]

>>10457450
literally cant. computer science doesn't gain the legal sanction to be a "practicing" engineer. but go slingin' that title around, make sure you put it on your business card. dudes make sport out of finding little faggots like you and burning your life to the ground in court.

i've been sued more than once and i'm an actual engineer.

[Anonymous No.10458597]

I always wondered why it's only engineering students and not engineers that post this shit online.
After being an engineer for a year now I know. We're just burnt out and don't care about this stupid shit

[Anonymous No.10458615]

>>10458596
on that note, if any of you are thinking about getting your PE, save your shekels for a good lawyer. if you seal enough design packages, its a matter of if, not when, you get sued.

[Anonymous No.10458639]

>>10457627
i'll take that as very fucked

[Anonymous No.10458682]

>>10458597
This. Engineering sucks as a career.

[Anonymous No.10458701]

>>10458615
>its a matter of if, not when, you get sued.
Congratulations on even managing to fuck up a simple saying.

[Anonymous No.10458725]

>>10458701
i write only in bullet point format. you will too.

[Anonymous No.10458768]

Just got an altera fpga, gonna just fuck around with it while I learn verilog. I saw the nandland guy make a video on typical interview questions as an fpga engineer and they seem rather simple. My op amps professor said a typical interview goes for like 3 hours or so in his industry, but from what I saw that guy post about fpga engineering I honestly don't think an interview will take that long. Very different industries.

[Anonymous No.10458988]

>>10456583
>Can't decide
Mech, because it's broader.

[Anonymous No.10459116]

Classmates from highschool are graduating this semester, while I still have 3 semesters. I feel so behind.

[Anonymous No.10459307]

>>10458988
Look at any engineering job listing and the ridiculously long list of highly specific requirements. Companies hire specialists, not generalists.

[Anonymous No.10459309]

>>10459116
It's better to graduate with a higher GPA than to rush through your degree. Literally nobody cares how quickly or slowly you finished your degree.

[Anonymous No.10459358]

>>10458351
Designing the whole bridge sounds more alpha desu

[Anonymous No.10459384]

>>10459358

Fun fact: VW has whole team of PhDs dedicated to designing a new type of screw. Fucking seriously. Also look at YouTube at people making FEA of screwing a screw. This is your life now (if you are lucky).

t. industry insider

[Anonymous No.10459393]

>>10458597

It's shitty as fuck in unwiped, diseased ass. Worst is that actual work is for simpletons and the hardest thing about it ridiculous workload for impossible deadlines & budgets while absolute retards don't take any responsibility and fuck your projects up at every opportunity.

[Anonymous No.10459405]

>>10459384
This, though if you don't think designing a screw, taking into account stress concentrations, tolerances, manufacturing methods, shear vs axial stiffness and capability, fatigue life, etc., isn't the coolest shit, you shouldn't be an engineer. Same goes for detailed FEA of joints, they're incredibly complex, nonlinear problems.

[Anonymous No.10459411]

Is ME easier than EE?

[Anonymous No.10459418]

>>10459411

Life as ME is harder

[Anonymous No.10459423]

I-is 4-5 hours of sleep at my job sustainable for the next 40 years? I can feel my body breaking bros.

[Anonymous No.10459424]

>>10459405

On the other hand selecting a washer & (cage) nut from bazillion of those is true kys tier.

[Anonymous No.10459432]

>>10459423

Unfortunetaly there will be long periods when you will be forced to nap or sleep up to 8h per day. I recommend investing in proper back pillow and second set of cushions for your desk.

[Anonymous No.10459442]

>>10442722
I've had the same experience. How I fixed it was by fixing my sleeping schedule and waking up at 7 AM every single day (also weekends). And then doing 2 hours of school work every day besides the assignments they already gave you. This is the only way you'll make it.

[Anonymous No.10459450]

>>10459432
No, I mean at night because that is all I have time for.

[Anonymous No.10459458]

>>10459411
I’m E(lectronic)E and I would say no, but that may just be because I’m not very interested in ME. I think EE has more “depth”, like in order to really understand any aspect of this material I would need to be a physics major or something, but nobody is so EE just ends up being ridiculously abstract joke

Like personally I would probably do way worse grade-wise if I was a psych major just because I hate writing essays and shit

[Anonymous No.10459474]

>>10459458
I’m doing an Engineering foundation year and wrapping my head around EE and imaging EE laws and circuits in my head is a lot harder than ME laws and I can fairly easily imagine materials, thermals, torque etc. In my head.

[Anonymous No.10459478]

>>10459458
This is why most universities in Europe usually recommend doing a double major in quantum physics and EE.

It's insane how EE don't even know the physics behind electrons most of the time. The entire fucking study is dedicated to the behavior of electrons and some courses don't even include uncertainty principle, spin angular momentum causing magnetism etc in their entire course.

[Anonymous No.10459498]

>>10442197
U mad bro? Seriously structural engineering is almost solved.

[Anonymous No.10459515]

>>10453153
Do you have like a 2.0 gpa? Did you fail calc 2 4 times? Did you not get any internships? Are you so incompetent in your major that you cant pass the screening programming interview tests? Most of my friends were cs/software engineers and they all got job offers senior year despite only one of them being a good student. the rest were a bunch of misfits that played cs all day instead of studying. It really isn't fucking hard to get a job in CS.

[Anonymous No.10459519]

>>10441984
Sub-atomic marine environment field computing is the way to go.

[Anonymous No.10459551]

>>10459384
Dosen't sound too bad, my other alternatives to engineering are medicine or law, both of which lead to boring jobs and the same upper middle class wage.

[Anonymous No.10459574]

>>10459551

To be totally frank, while stressful and often unreasonable, engineering-oriented jobs for big corporations are quite fun. If you want to travel, you can have travelling to different plant sites. If you want sitting on your ass whole day in front of PC, you can have that. Hell, if you are lawyer or business oriented guy, you still can be auditor, do financial risk analysis or be corporate lawyer involved in patents or homologation which is also its own kind of "fun".

I don't understand bashing on people working for big corps.

[Anonymous No.10459581]

>>10449944
Do you have internships? I am in a similair position GPAwise and just got an offer for 70k to work in a tech company on the back of having several relevant internships.

[Anonymous No.10459594]

>>10442197

CS student here!1!!

Stupid, it's not called ififififif-machine, the technical term is: machine learning algorithm

[Anonymous No.10459627]

What types of jobs are available to the different types of engineers, and which sect has the best job prospects?

[Anonymous No.10459630]

>>10459594


Pajeet here !!!

Hes correct, if if if if machine is correct term :)

[Anonymous No.10459653]

>>10459581
not yet. but will start one this summer. What is your tech company job? Are you pretty much just doing software dev?

[Anonymous No.10459717]

>>10459653
Process Engineer

[Anonymous No.10459738]

>>10458596
You literally can, at least here in Switzerland where I live. I did my bachelor in CS and after the summer break I'll begin my master in biomedical engineering at ETH.

[Anonymous No.10459741]

>>10458584
That's not a contradiction libshit

[Anonymous No.10459747]

>>10458567
There are almost no Indians in my CS classes. 90% are nerdy white males

[Anonymous No.10459750]

>>10457623
Not everyone lives in your shithole and I take nothing serious that comes out of the US

[Anonymous No.10459972]

>>10459747
Silly burger. CS gang stands for "crap in the street" gang.

[Anonymous No.10460298]

>>10459717
What kind of process engineer works at a tech company? Do you mean like a manufacturing company for tech like micron?

[Anonymous No.10461007]

>>10452484
Yes, you hook all the keys to an interrupt pin and then check which button was pressed in the interrupt routine. I think our PCs use a buffer of sorts which collects all button presses for further processing.

[Anonymous No.10461232]

Do internships really drug test?
My cousin said he didn’t get one for his.
I have some wax and weed I want to smoke this coming spring break. Should i just become a alcoholic? I dont want to be sober this spring break while relaxing at home

[Anonymous No.10461935]

I have fucking had it with the engineering workload. Please god someone tell me I can finally just switch to physics and still get >= $80k starting. I’m a freshman babby so I’d have wasted taking 4 classes this year but it would still be worth getting out of this boring insufferable hell.

[Anonymous No.10461959]

>>10461935
>thinks physics will be easier
no
>thinks a bachelors in physics will get you a job
also no

[Anonymous No.10461967]

>>10461959
>easier
Obviously not. Just less credits/semester and more pleasantly engaging.

[Anonymous No.10461968]

>>10459750
>I take nothing serious that comes out of the US
>post on a website from America
>about a subject developed in 20th century America
>on the internet made by America
>from a computer made by America
yikes sweaty!

[Anonymous No.10461976]

>>10461935
I’m ee trust me physics is harder, probably the hardest of any degree

[Anonymous No.10461985]

>>10461976
I wanted to do EE but this school doesn’t offer it, only compE which is 50% dreadful compsci.

[Anonymous No.10462061]

>like math, but not enough to want to major in it
>like physics, but not enough to want to major in it
>like programming, but not enough to want to major in CS

Is this basically what engineering is?

[Anonymous No.10462069]

>>10462061
>like programming
I don’t believe this is possible for a sane individual.

[Anonymous No.10462095]

So I'll be majoring in Quantum Geological Protonic Pseudoreduced Neolithic Macrotopology Brappism

Will I get 300k starting?

[Anonymous No.10462103]

>>10444452
Because CS isn't engineering, it's making a useless tool to keep track of shit you're doing. But yeah CS makes way more money starting at the cost of becoming a socially disconnected retard

>>10449955
OP refer to this

[Anonymous No.10462125]

>>10461985
What the hell kind of meme school doesnt have EE?

[Anonymous No.10462163]

I love HR departments so much. I'm so glad they exist for the sole purpose of keeping cisgendered white males such as myself out of gainful employment.

God forbid I actually got an internship at a Fortune 100 company. That would just be so terrible and racist.

[Anonymous No.10462271]

>>10461985
YIKES
this is terrible, even low level state schools have the big 3 engineering degrees. I would understand if they didn't offer comp.e, but no EE? transfer out bro...

[Anonymous No.10462491]

>>10462103
>Because CS isn't engineering
It is retard

> it's making a useless tool to keep track of shit you're doing. But yeah CS makes way more money starting at the cost of becoming a socially disconnected retard
>useless
>makes a lot of money
Hm... really makes me think

[Anonymous No.10462535]

>>10462491
It’s not though

[Anonymous No.10462547]

>>10441988
What the fuck is "gifted"

[Anonymous No.10462549]

How far do I have to get into EE before companies will actually give me an internship?

I have a white penis, regrettably.

[Anonymous No.10462551]

>>10441988
>first year
I'm in my third year and they're still making me take general math and matlab. I have more physics next semester. This ride never ends.

[Anonymous No.10462589]

>>10462549
never :^)

[Anonymous No.10462746]

>have been writing email asking for a bachelors thesis for the past two hours
Im too autistic for this shit

[Anonymous No.10462843]

>>10462746
fuck it I sent it

[Anonymous No.10463056]

>>10459594
You don't even need machine learning to solve structural design problems, all you need is convex optimization.

[Anonymous No.10464430]

>>10462491
It isn't. It's data management and encrypted accounting. When i see a CS major lift something other than his self esteem, I'll let you know ok?

>makes a lot of money
>makes me think
>think
Something you could try

[Anonymous No.10464776]

>>10462549
As Junior in EE, I'd say after your first semester in Junior year. First 2 years is just math, physics, really basic circuits. It isn't until your first semester when you get into signals, electromagnetics, and network analysis where you really dive into the shit.