If your an engineer...
 

I just wanted to see how many fellow engineers are out there!!
List your school and major:

I just graduated in May from the Colorado School of Mines with a degree in Chemical Engineering!!! I'm done!

...On a semi-related topic...
Does the engineering gene seem to run in your family?
It does in mine:
Sister - chemical
Sister - civil
Dad - chemical
Two uncles - civil
grandfather - mechanical

And it seems that lots of my friends at school had family members that were also engineers. Or are you the first in the family?

Just wondering...

Univ. of Louisville Speed Scentific - Electricl, but NOT ging to be an engineer....on to busines, then to Law school!

Just graduated from Rose-Hulman, electrical engineer. working for the man now, at NSWC Crane, Naval base...in Indiana

While my degrees are computer science (BS WKU and MS Univ. of Ky) ....

my job title says Software Engineer

my boyfriend is an engineering student, my dad is an engineer...

I'm not an engineer, but my husband is (Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, Masters in Nuclear Engineering).

I had to marry an engineer because I'm so abysmal in Math and Science and I needed someone to balance me so my kids had a fighting chance! :)

Cal Poly SLO - Computer Engineering, graduated June 2002. :D

At work, my title is Software Engineer.

Uncle: Electrical Engineer
Cousin: Software Engineer
Cousin's spouse: Electrical Engineer PhD
Grandpa: Electrical Engineer

My fianceé: Liberal Studies (go figure, huh?)

My dad, uncle and brother are all engineers from Georgia Tech. :D

Dad - textile
Brother - civil
Uncle - civil

And my cousin is a Civil Engineer from Auburn. :)

My boyfriend is an Electrical Engineer. He's the first in his family to graduate from college, so maybe he'll start the trend.

He found out he passed his FE/EIT about a month ago - I'm so proud of him :D Now he's just gotta find a job. EE jobs are hard to find in LA :(

I still haven't heard how I did on the EIT. Anyone know how I can find out?

juniorgrrl, tell your boyfriend to try the government DoD (dept. of defense) is one area that is still big, no matter what the economy. I know personally, like 8 or so guys I graduated with that are working somehow for DoD.

2 computer science degrees from MIT. (And I still can't find a job! :( )

Grandfather: civil engineer
Husband: mechanical engineering degrees, but works as a systems engineer
Father-in-law: civil engineering degree, but works as a forensic engineer

I am an engineer! Only one in the family though, which means I out-earn all of them at the age of 19.

Josh just got a letter in the mail informing him he'd passed. Your state probably has a lot more tests to grade. Louisiana is lucky to have residents that are literate, much less engineers. Maybe contact your local rep of NCEES?

He's looking into software work for the meantime. Most of the EE stuff around here is offshore, and well, he's just not into that. I really don't know if there is any DoD work around here. And he's really not willing to leave the state and his lovely girlfriend (yay for me). We shall see how this pans out.

Proud Auburn University Civil Engineer!

I work for Southern Nuclear Operating Company at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle. In fact I am your friendly neighborhood Reactor Containment Dome Engineer...working hard to keep Farmer Brown's cows safe :-) All joking aside I do take my job seriously and love it, my family lives here so you better beleive I do my best! One of my co-workers is a DZ from AU as well, 4.0 in Chemical Engineering, not bad at all! My GPA was a little lower though I probably had more fun ;-p Many of my AKL brothers are engineers as well, primarily EE and Computer Engineering/Science.

I'm the first in my family to receive an engineering degree though I did follow my uncle into the nuclear power generation field. Now, who wants to start a thread about going to your 3 hour lab for 1 hour of credit and having to walk past all of the business major playing frisbee or heading to the bars ;-p

I was always so bitter at the business majors! The C.o.B. here doesn't have class on Fridays, meaning most of my business-major friends didn't either. Meanwhile, I can't tell you how many times I had class until 5pm on Fridays. :mad:

:)

I'm going to be a junior in electrical engineering at Montana State University-Bozeman, but I'm quickly heading toward the five year plan.

I don't want to go into engineering right away, I'd like to take a year off and be a traveling consultant for my fraternity.

Interesting stats on EE Employment
 

My guy got his IEEE mag today and said that it said unemployment rates for EEs are at an all time high - 6%. Interestingly enough, something like 20% of the jobs are held by people on work visas.

:mad:

EXACTLY!! Most of my hardest/most time consuming classes/labs were worth only one credit. My easiest classes were the economic classes I took for my electives that were worth 3-4 credits. Go figure. Oh and my business major friends never had class on Fridays.

Did any of you guys have to endure field session. Here field session is a six week summer course that is required to graduate. It is monday - saturday, 7:00 am to 10:00 pm(usually later). Where we complete 10 process labs and write 20 page reports or give oral presentations. A.K.A. HELL!!!

I used to be an engineer major.. then I decided I didn't like math too much :p

douht I always thought engineers ran trains till a John Wayne Movie!

Take the Time and be a Consultant it is well worth it and wish I could have done it but was married!

Should have gotten divorced then!:)

It will be a lifetime of experience that very few have the pleasure to do! It is tuff but very rewardable!

Dont look bad on a Resume either!

What did you do? Yepper! Go For It! Good Luck!

Update
 

I found out last week that I passed the EIT exam. They forwarded my results to my sister in Florida. We both moved this summer, so the post office must have just grabbed the wrong forwarding address :). I got a 77. 70 was passing.

My husband is an mechanical engineer and my boss is a biomechanical engineer. About 95% of my male friends are also engineers.

I was going to be an mechanical engineer...boy am I glad that I decided against it!

I'm sure everyone here has.....but have you all learned the absolute brilliance of the TI-89? It is a beautiful thing....Entering state-space matrices and it returning the appropriate TF, or entering the TF, and it returning a nyquist plot. I wish I had discovered the wonders of this things years ago. But I guess once you learn something well enough to write the code for it, you know the process thorough enough.....but nevertheless....if you're an EE, you may want some of my 89 programs friends and I have written.

structural engineer

BSCE, MSCE....Purdue....

Re: Interesting stats on EE Employment
 

What is there to be mad about?

Companies are attracted to international workers for a few reasons:

1). They are willing to take those jobs that other people don't want--like offshore EE in Louisiana. Or jobs with high travel
2). They will work for less, for the most part, than many American workers will work for.
3). Many of those companies are multinational--an engineer might work on a project in his home country for a few years, then train others in the same project in another country for a few years--necessitating a work visa. This happens to the engineers who work for my father all the time.

So, given those factors, I'm surprised the work visa rate isn't higher. The unemployment rate, to be sure, is rotten, but the fact that there are people willing to do the work that some of us don't want to do isn't rotten at all.

Good stuff!

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BS Architectural Engineering.
Currently an Assistant Project Manager.

Re: Re: Interesting stats on EE Employment
 

It's true that international workers are often more willing to take "undesirable" jobs and to work for less pay. If the international worker can do as good a job as the US worker but at considerably less pay, it makes good business sense to hire the international worker.

That still doesn't make it any easier to be a US worker sitting around on unemployment while all these people are shipped in from overseas to do what used to be your job. Even taking a less-desirable job or a job for low pay can be better than being unemployed, especially if you've exhausted your unemployment benefits and still have to pay the rent, eat, etc. - but the US workers often don't even get the chance to apply for these jobs.

The concept of "Buy American" just hasn't filtered into the job market. :(