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- Coottie, on 05/29/2009, -0/+47Engineering is one of those degrees that you will work your ass off to get....but you'll have some stellar technical skills if you can hang. You better like math too. Most Engineering degrees pick up AFTER Calculus 4 and Differential Equations....then they take those math skills to the next level.
There will always be a need for highly technical people but the discipline and work required to get Engineering degrees generally means that only the best students will get them. I got a BS in CS and had to take Engineering Physics 1 & 2 and they kicked my ass. I got a B in 1 and an A in 2 but holy crap, I've never worked so hard. We had about 3-5 hours of homework every single night of the week (sometimes less but not many) that had to be turned in the next day and it all counted towards our final grades. We had 1 hour of class 4 days a week and one day a week was spent in a 3 hour lab. Weekends were spent reading and going back over anything you didn't fully understand the previous week.
Now if you've had a lot of HS physics and calc, then you'll be ready but my Uni won't even take you if you haven't had calc in HS. You will be referred to a Vocational/Technical school for pre-engineering classes to prepare you for what you'll find your first year.
Here's the kicker....the university from which I graduated isn't considered a really competitive school in the states. We're NCAA Division 2 and while there's nothing wrong with the Uni, there are plenty of other Unis in the nation that are MUCH more difficult than mine.
Anyways, none of this should scare you away from engineering if you love math and solving math type problems. Most people just love the idea of being called an engineer but they aren't really into the work. To them I say....find another path in life because you'll hate this degree. To those that love math....GO FOR IT....IMO you simply can't do much better than an Eng degree. - trer, on 05/29/2009, -1/+47Sure these freshmen are starting college as engineering majors....but they'll probably end college as communication majors.
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -1/+43Engineers are walking sex bombs that attract hot women like flies to a rotting carcass.
- nimda69, on 05/29/2009, -1/+41EE FTW
- mirunit, on 05/29/2009, -0/+37Word of advice, if you do not enjoy it, you will never be good at what you do - your pay will reflect that.
- stuman77, on 05/29/2009, -0/+34Engineers know it's not the magnitude of the force, but how you apply it.
- HonestAbeinator, on 05/29/2009, -0/+30Two of my friends died trying to pass eng phys
- nahsrocketeer75, on 05/27/2009, -8/+32FTA: "The job outlook is high," he says, echoing the sentiments of many classmates. "If you stick to it, it will pay off." ... Ah, the optimism of youth.
- thcobbs, on 05/28/2009, -2/+24In the long run, I had a lot of fun in engineering. But that's because I like problems and finding solutions. Engineering isn't for people who don't have patience, critical thinking ability and drive.
- thcobbs, on 05/28/2009, -1/+21Worked for me
- t0x2c, on 05/29/2009, -0/+19I dugg you up hoping it will come true :(
- tidu, on 05/29/2009, -3/+22ME FTW
- vicsvenge, on 05/29/2009, -0/+18tell that to my friend that just got laid off from an engineering firm.
yeah we need them, but that doesn't mean they'll be getting a job. - cheerfulcynic, on 05/29/2009, -0/+17exactly - it just means that more kids are declaring their major to be engineering - wait till they get smacked upside the head with all that ***** math.
(says someone that failed calc 3 freaking times before deciding that just maybe, she wasn't cut out for engineering ) - inactive, on 05/29/2009, -0/+17Pics or she doesn't have a PhD.
- thcobbs, on 05/29/2009, -0/+16I don't know... the hottest woman besides my wife I've ever met has a PHD in Aerospace engineering and re-wrote several boundary layer theory formulas for her masters thesis.
And she was in my Fraternity in college. The pledges used to ask her if we hired her as a model to attract new pledges. - gamer_013, on 05/29/2009, -0/+16The limit as GPA approaches 0, Engineering turns to Business.
- pussnuts, on 05/28/2009, -3/+19You're a ***** idiot.
- TalkingMuffin, on 05/29/2009, -2/+18Dugg for csmonitor.com. A lot of people are really turned off by the name but they're a wonderful independent paper that have nothing to do with christian dogma.
From their website:
Then if the Monitor's news is basically secular and for everybody, why is "Christian Science" in its name?
It's about honesty and purpose. We do not hide the fact that the Christian Science church has stood behind this publication for more than 100 years. While some might argue that not having those words would give it wider appeal, to remove them would mislead people about the organization that supports the Monitor. Eddy knew this from the outset. She insisted, against strong opposition from some of her advisers and church officers, that the words "Christian Science" should be in the paper's name.
According to one of her biographers, Robert Peel, to Eddy, "the designated title was an identification of the paper with the promise that no human situation was beyond healing or rectification if approached with sufficient understanding of man's God-given potentialities. Nor did the "good news" of Christianity involve the prettification of bad news, but rather, its confident confrontation" (witness Monitor correspondent David Rohde's Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting 1995 on alleged massacres by Bosnian Serb forces). - AlphaDrake, on 05/29/2009, -0/+16I laugh at all the people who go into engineering without realizing the workload is way bigger than they expect. It isn't a psych degree :P
Also: Gogo CompE's! - faizal5k, on 05/29/2009, -1/+15ECE FTW
- t0x2c, on 05/29/2009, -0/+14What's more likely to happen is classrooms get filled with incompetent kids and professors cave, leaving me with a sad, ill-prepared selection of new engineers to hire.
- markf3388, on 05/29/2009, -0/+12She was in your frat, mby she is actually a he.
- CunninLynguists, on 05/29/2009, -0/+12or business majors
- Jeepinator, on 05/29/2009, -0/+10I can pretty much see about 75% of my class dropping engineering at some point. Some of them you can actually spot yourself. You can tell they just don't have the right type of mind. It's not that they are unintelligent. It is that they don't think like an engineer needs to think.
- Jeepinator, on 05/29/2009, -0/+10Negative mark. Business is a joke compared to an engineering major.
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -1/+10shortage in the profession? says who? In all metros you'll find engineers working. From your typical fortune 500 to your neighborhood friendly Mickey D's
- cjurdane, on 05/29/2009, -0/+9Electrical engineering
- Coottie, on 05/29/2009, -0/+9Perhaps - that's been an issue my whole life but I thought some people would appreciate and benefit from my experience. I can't comment on other Unis but that was my experience and it was really a pain in the ass. I'm so glad it's over.
- TheAbdBoy, on 05/29/2009, -2/+10You mean "good luck on getting through engineering school."
- Aldanga, on 05/29/2009, -1/+9Um, no. Not even close. They're only useless if the danged pyros don't do their job and spy-check for them.
- salvadorwii, on 05/29/2009, -0/+8SPY SAPPIN' MAH SENTRY
- abadonn, on 05/29/2009, -0/+8I just graduated as an engineer, and the last job I interviewed for I was going against 150 people.
- vilago, on 05/29/2009, -0/+7how can she be in a frat if she's a girl? i'm just curious.
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -0/+7Just like everyone brags that there are more women in college then men, but most don't graduate, or graduate with a degree in liberal arts and make sammiches the rest of their life.
- BMcClure937, on 05/29/2009, -2/+8Suddenly hot? Engineering has been a desired major / profession for quite some time and will continue to be so in the future.
- TheAbdBoy, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N0HdFaVuz4
Not so optimistic anymore! - ripple123, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6engies are great. if you pop a small sentry before goin round a corner, you can usually lure chumps into its line of fire, while you shoot away with the shotty.
- Kerafyrm, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6FTA: ENGINEER IS CREDIT TO TEAM
- hotshotveggie, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6And you can't share the name of your university, because then you'd have to kill us.
- masamunecyrus, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6If Calculus is what was giving you trouble, you should be very, very happy that you dropped Engineering. Calculus is about as easy as it comes; it'd only get MUCH harder from there.
- commentposted, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6Dude, I actually believe it.
- BMcClure937, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6If you can keep up with classes and get good experience... and go to a school with a good engineering program, then you should be able to easily land competitive coops with a nice rate of pay. A lot of these employers will look at their coops for full-time jobs.
Even if you choose to not work with a company you have cooped with, you have great experience and an amazing set of skills to help you find a job. - hayden.evans, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6I'm one of three computer engineers in my class. Attrition is still, and always will be very high.
- Coottie, on 05/29/2009, -1/+6Woah there....let's clarify some things CS = Computer Science and CE = Computer Engineering. Then you mention SE = Software Engineering which is MUCH different than CE. CEs are the people that create the hardware so it's more closely associated with an EE degree. SE are more closely tied to programming and how programs are created. CS is often thought to be a programming degree and yes, there's lots of programming in most CS curriculums but it's not just about that.....it's more about computational issues.
All of these degrees have value but the work of CS and CE are really very different. Getting a degree in both doesn't actually help you as much as you might think. If you want to program a CS/SE is much more valuable. If you want to work with hardware an EE/CE is much more valuable. However, the CS/CE does provide a LOT of different options.
But really....I think what's much more valuable for programming is CS/MSE. For hardware EE/MCE.
Just my $.02 - cheerfulcynic, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5calc one, 3 times, which is what made it so embarrassing.
all the other engineering students were busy failing calc 2 and 3,
and i was constantly struggling with calc 1. tho once i moved over to "business calc" enough had soaked in by then to pass that class.
i'm just not a derivative math person, apparently :D - mirunit, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5My freshman class had around 80% attrition rate.
- cjurdane, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5more comes in, more comes out
- Jeepinator, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5He's an engineer. He gave you everything you might need to know.
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5Nothing's gonna change that, guy. Most women just don't dig science and math.
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