Engineers?

[jag09]

Is anyone on the board looking to be or pursuing a career in engineering?
If so will you state the type and the college you attend please, because thats what i am really looking into going to college for.
Im leaning towards Central Michigan University(for automotive technology) and Michigan State University(for packaging)

[POS VETT]

Engineers are the worst kind .... they are socially inept

:think:

With that aside :D

I'm a mechanical engineer. I got both of my degrees from the Ohio State U.

No, I'm not a Buckeye fan :confused

(Shouldn't this be in off-topic ?)

[jag09]

Can i get a mod to move this? sorry!
anyways thanks for the replies osu is in my list as somewhere to visit

[eisenb11]

Is anyone on the board looking to be or pursuing a career in engineering?
If so will you state the type and the college you attend please, because thats what i am really looking into going to college for.
Im leaning towards Central Michigan University(for automotive technology) and Michigan State University(for packaging)


Software Engineer. Michigan State University.

BS: Comp Sci
BA: Social Science / Pre-Law

If you're interested in automotive, you may want to check out Kettering (sp?) in Flint, MI, it's what GMI (General Motors Institute) was renamed to when they branched it off of GM.

[tsweers89]

god damn engineers always making my tech life harder

[Mitch]

Chemical Engineer at Mississippi State University.

[team bau]

USC, BS '07 - Industrial and Systems Engineering

Fight On!

[smax]

Second year Civil Engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin.

Hook 'em, bitches.

[brentbrent83]

BS Construction Engineering and Management at North Carolina State University ... currently an Land Development Engineering Designer

Looking to go back to school for MBA and MSIS (Master's in Info. Science) at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

[natedog1959]

BSME from Valparaiso University in NW Indiana. I have a buddy that graduated from Michigan State with a degree in Packaging Engineering. He is making a boatload of money out in Cali working for some cosmetics company. I was in product engineering for a few years and recently moved on to a sales engineering position. The money potential is unlimited and I still get you use my brain quite a bit. Best of both worlds. Good luck with whatever choice you make. Nate

[jag09]

Thats why i love packaging because your being creative to hook in the customer while trying to make the product last,appeal, etc. to them. I took a summer course of packing 2 years, 1yr of physics eng., 1yr aeronautics eng., and 1yr robotics at ISU. Im a junior in hs right now so i have a little bit of more time left

[ballplayer7373]

I'm currently and Engineering Physics at Point Loma University. School's small, more liberal arts-ish, and my program's small, kinda wish I had gone to a school for either pure mech. engineering or automotive engineering, but I figure I'll have to get a master's down the line, and my degree will let me pursue whatever specialized engineering I want to get into down the road.

[ken_vs_ryu]

go into finance.

[DrewDude320i]

Engineers are the worst kind .... they are socially inept

:think:



however, if you are an engineer with good social skills, you could do very well. The ability for "math people" to really have a good business conversation with a buyer, and really sell him on the product because you know exactly how it works - engineers make great marketing rep's if they can SPEAK

[DrewDude320i]

Second year Civil Engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin.

Hook 'em, bitches.

saw 'em off.























































short.

[jag09]

like accounting or international business? those are what my mom and teacher want me to be

[smax]

You know how you can tell if someone's an outgoing engineer?














They look at other peoples' shoes.

[M3@Apex]

4th year Electrical Engineer student here....

[backtrail69]

BS in Industrial Technology specializing in Vehicle design here. Working on finishing my 2nd year at Western Washington University.

[qidm67]

Georgia Institute of Technology, Tech, GT...is pretty ranked.

[LBMotoring]

Mech Engineer, still in study,

work at a firm though,

21 years of age.

[neapolitan]

MIT. Great place, hard work but you will love it. Imagine a 500 pound weight. Then, imagine it strapped to your shoulders for 4 years. Kind of like that.

Seriously though, MIT was a blast. Boston was expensive, but MIT is fairly generous with scholarships once you get in. Also consider CMU in Pittsburgh, and if you are from MI consider Michigan Tech which is pretty underrated for certain fields. Keep in mind a nice degree gets you the job, and you will have to learn whatever you do from there -- I have changed training many times in my career.

OTOH, once you get some college schoolin' you will be much more erudite than 99% of posters on this form, and rapidly lose interest in arguing with people that don't understand basic mechanics and behave like petulant children (mryakan and a few others excepted.) Ah well, best of luck.

[genesismachine]

go into finance.

I'll second that. Electrical Engineer from PSU

[rcem3]

Currently doing Mechanical Engineering at NC State University. We are building a brand new multi million dollar vehicle research center. Do you know what you want to do with engineering? If not Mechanical is the broadest degree and can be applied to almost anything.

[Enda Curran]

Final year student of mechanical engineering in Ireland

[HoosierHodge]

Finishing up my bachelors in mechanical engineering here at Rose-Hulman then coming back next year for my masters. Since you're from IN, I figure you already know about this schools reputation and whether it's right for you or not. Definitely visit all the places on your list, some you'll be able to mark out immediately, and others will move up on the list quickly.

[nort0188]

Minnesota State University (Mankato) has an automotive engineering major, if that's where you're looking to go with it. Not a bad town, if you don't mind country music at your Chinese buffet.

If it is automotive you want to get into, look at recent FSAE results... it may give you a good idea of the quality of engineering schools, or it may just show which school has more money. Either way, you'll end up visiting Wisconsin - Madison.

[PG256]

There's a bunch of good eningineering schools out here in California. Cal Poly, UC Davis, UC Berkley, Chico, SDSU, Long Beach... I should be going to one of them next year.

[jag09]

neapolitan & hoosierhodge ive looked at both but the only problem is financing to pay for those two schools. Ive have always been interested in Rose ive taken like 3 or 4 tours there just for i can go back. I need to find some decent scholarships i qualify for and start writing my essays again for them

[neapolitan]

Yeah, it was costly. I still have college debt at this very time, kind of ridiculous (most people have 30 yr loans). Still, you get a good selection of nice jobs coming out of there, and all of my classmates and I have very little problem paying them off (and enough left over $$$ for shiny new BMW toys.)

Whatever you do, I encourage you to *apply* to MIT. After you are accepted, they will ask for a financial report sheet and then just tell you what you need to pay. MIT has a LOT of internal funding, so if your parents don't earn much you may only have to be charged $5000 per year, with something like $5k in loans per year. Coming out with $25k in debt is not bad at all given your job prospects after.

In general you can't "declare independence" from your parents and say "I'm paying for it myself." If you could, all rich kids would do this to get the scholarships from MIT, so they insist on seeing your parent's tax return. But, their packages are more than generous for the middle class.

Good luck!

[jag09]

Thanks for the info neapolitan! i wouldnt be able to declare independence seeing as how im only 16 and will be a freshman in college at 17.

[mzmtg]

I got my BME from Auburn University in 2001.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/mzmtg/engineer.jpg

[BCOM320i]

I know its not in the states, but McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario is well known for engineering, I just finished a BA Tech(coop) for Process Automation(Industrial Engineering) gotta love PLC's and control theory though. Thats being said and not to hijack the thread anyone know of a post grad program for automation? Or can recomend a good online school for MBA?

[genesismachine]

Thanks for the info neapolitan! i wouldnt be able to declare independence seeing as how im only 16 and will be a freshman in college at 17.

This is a little OT, but you can declare emancipation at 16. If your parents and you get along though, that's not a possibility. Your parents have to be total nutjobs. But it can be done!

[fcvapor05]

Currently working on a BS Mech. Engineering/Materials Science at Kettering University in scenic Flint, MI. Working at Roush in Livonia (Detroit).

[RyansBMW]

junior mechanical engineer at villanova

[jag09]

This is a little OT, but you can declare emancipation at 16. If your parents and you get along though, that's not a possibility. Your parents have to be total nutjobs. But it can be done!
That'd be crazy. Thats a little ridiculous.

[smax]

That'd be crazy. Thats a little ridiculous.

I had a friend who did it at 16... Family was truly messed up. Kinda sad, really.

[el bob]

Finishing my fourth year in Mechanical Engineering at Caltech (California Institute of Technology). I second the carrying a rock for four years comment a couple of pages back. Caltech does not have much of a connection with automotive engineering as far as I am aware, most of our guys go on to aerospace, namely Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, etc. There's a fair amount who go on to grad school for PhDs or Masters and a few who break off into finance, myself included. I bet I would have stayed in engineering if I knew anyone involved in it. Even though I am studying as an engineer, I don't know too many people who actually work as one and could tell me what's its like.

[Sneaky]

3rd Year Mechanical Engineering

Kill ME now

[Cory M]

to the original poster - you're in Indiana now, why wouldn't you go to Purdue or Rose-Hulman? Those are the main schools in the Midwest that my company recruits from.

[ViniZaoD]

Caltech Applied Physics going there in the fall.

[jag09]

to the original poster - you're in Indiana now, why wouldn't you go to Purdue or Rose-Hulman? Those are the main schools in the Midwest that my company recruits from.

I've looked at purdue but i dont really like it, but i like Rose alot.

[Hathaway]

3rd year Mechanical Engineer at University of Toledo

[Z3Jonathan]

I graduated 3 years ago from Bradley University with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Co-Op'ed for 4 semesters during college in the aerospace industry, but I've been working in automotive ever since graduation.

Eventually, I want to get back into aerospace, and hopefully move up to Seattle.

My biggest piece of advice: Choose a school you'll feel comfortable at, and enjoy. Don't pick a school only because your parents or friends are pressuring you to go there, or only because its well-ranked nationally. National rankings should be part of that decision (a big part), but not all of it.

Case in point: I went to a small university in central IL, but I have never felt held back by my choice. Certainly, if I ever go back to grad-school, it'll be somewhere with name recognition. But again, its never held me back thus far.


Minnesota State University (Mankato) has an automotive engineering major, if that's where you're looking to go with it. Not a bad town, if you don't mind country music at your Chinese buffet.

Personally, I would stay clear of an automotive-specific major. For one, there is no ABET-accredited "Automotive Engineering" program. Additionally, if you ever decide to branch outside of automotive, a Mechanical Engineering degree is going to be more portable than an Automotive Engineering degree.

Finally, if you're totally set on the auto industry, I don't know how much more an Automotive Engineering degree would get you over a Mechanical Engineering degree. A MechE degree teaches you everything that you need to know to start a career in the auto industry.

[cr2596]

ME at LSU

[cr2596]

I graduated 3 years ago from Bradley University with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Co-Op'ed for 4 semesters during college in the aerospace industry, but I've been working in automotive ever since graduation.

Eventually, I want to get back into aerospace, and hopefully move up to Seattle.

My biggest piece of advice: Choose a school you'll feel comfortable at, and enjoy. Don't pick a school only because your parents or friends are pressuring you to go there, or only because its well-ranked nationally. National rankings should be part of that decision (a big part), but not all of it.

Case in point: I went to a small university in central IL, but I have never felt held back by my choice. Certainly, if I ever go back to grad-school, it'll be somewhere with name recognition. But again, its never held me back thus far.



Personally, I would stay clear of an automotive-specific major. For one, there is no ABET-accredited "Automotive Engineering" program. Additionally, if you ever decide to branch outside of automotive, a Mechanical Engineering degree is going to be more portable than an Automotive Engineering degree.

Finally, if you're totally set on the auto industry, I don't know how much more an Automotive Engineering degree would get you over a Mechanical Engineering degree. A MechE degree teaches you everything that you need to know to start a career in the auto industry.

What are you doing in the automotive industry? Company, job description?

thanks.

[reelizmpro]

BSEE - Cal State Long Beach. Good engineering college, lots of pretty girls around campus, relatively inexpensive.

[TX S3]

BS Mechanical Engineering University of Kansas
MD Physical Medicine and Rehab. University of Kansas....uh now you know why I've change major.

CSE seems to be in demand here in Texas...I married one.

[torchedlh]

Im a junior ME at university of colorado at boulder.

[Zero Cool]

BS in EE from UF in 97'. Can't spell geek without a EE. Only worked for 4 yrs then switched to medicine.

[AEman69A]

double E major (electrical engineering) at rutgers. second year. it can get a bit tough at times but if math is your field then yea def. go for it. and as someone else stated earlier, an engineer with good communication skills can really go somewhere.

[huehuete]

BS in Mechanical Engineering
University of Florida
Now I'm working in the HVAC industry

[BavarianFanatic]

BSME Drexel University '95
FSAE Formula Racecar (senior design)

I too am in the HVAC industry. Controls specifically.

[torchedlh]

i'm a junior ME at CU Boulder. looking for an internship this summer...