Career Choices...Mechanical Engineering?

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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
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    AB,

    You may want to look into manufacturing or industrial engineering as well as ME for the Automotive industry.
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  • rskarvan
    rskarvan Posts: 2,374
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    The really cool jobs in Automotive aren't engineering jobs at all. They are automotive design jobs. The designers draw the vehicle and then work with engineering to "make it real". If you become an ME, you are more-or-less going to be a techno-nerd. What you really want to do is hook-up in the automotive world in a design/marketing role. Good luck.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
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    Haha, I'm not a drawer. I'll just settle for being a test driver for some magazine like Top Gear. :D
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  • cbl117
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    Is it better to stay with one company for a long time or jump between companies every 2 or so years?
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  • audiobliss
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    HTrookie - You mean that in the jobs you've had since you've graduated you haven't used much of what you learned in college? That's a shock to me. I would have figured an engineer would have to rely on his specialized education everyday of his job.
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  • Ricardo
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    Well, I guess that would depend on the kind of job you get; If you are into design, product development, etc you'll use some of the things you learned. I went a different path, and nothing I've done was in any book I saw through college. I did use my education to learn new things, and find my way through. As I mentioned, I think the best education you get is to use your brain :)
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  • I-SIG
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    jdhdiggs wrote:
    Possibly, for undergrad we had to do 148 credits and no class counted as more than 3 so there were a lot of "others". In reality, the Econ/Bus BS fit the ME degree in as it had far more electives than the ME degree. For both undergrad degrees took 155 credits IIRC. I think I had to take 5-6 classes outside of engineering. What also helped is that Mines only does engineering so the first 2 years of any program looks the same. Making econ majors taking O-chem... How fun... Most people just did a public relations minor.

    Anyway, I like poking GT grads with sticks. It's fun!

    Are those quarter or semester hours?

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  • Ricardo
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    One more thing; today the world moves thanks to computers, software, etc. People do their work around Windows, excel, powerpoint, visual basic, web based tools......

    In my whole college time, I NEVER touched a computer; I did go through computer programming....but it was limited to filling some cards and hand them to the systems dept., who would then run it and give me the results (Fortran IV).

    When I got my firts job, there were no such things as PC's....people moved around telex, wang word processors, etc. Everything was done in paper. Tons and tons of paper. And then we had this PC's revolution...the first time I got my hands on a keyboard I was 28:eek: :eek: Excel? No way; Lotus 123.

    And I'm not that old...:) :)

    Just thought it would be fair to mention this because it also contributed to the fact that I did not use much of my college learnings; computers and software started taking place of many of the things I learned in a different way. I lived that transition during the 80's. For you guys that are through college now, things have changed :)
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  • PhantomOG
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    audiobliss wrote:
    HTrookie - You mean that in the jobs you've had since you've graduated you haven't used much of what you learned in college? That's a shock to me. I would have figured an engineer would have to rely on his specialized education everyday of his job.

    Its been said for EE's that 10 years after you graduate most of what you learned in college is outdated and useless for your career. Of course the basics (physics, math, etc.) will always apply but technology advances very quickly and changes many engineering jobs. MechE's might not have it that bad, but I'm sure they are still affected.

    I'd guess I "use" about 20-30% of what I learned in college on a day to day basis. Computers and technology offer such a high level of abstraction that real world engineering can be quite different from what you learn in school. But, the problem solving skills and basics are still important.
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  • HBombToo
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    cbl117 wrote:
    Is it better to stay with one company for a long time or jump between companies every 2 or so years?

    As a hiring manager, I believe its OK as long as your transitions show a coherent path forward in the development of your career.
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  • jdhdiggs
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    I-SIG wrote:
    Are those quarter or semester hours?

    Wes


    Semester. Average time to degree completion was at 4.73 years when I left.

    Hbomb's comments are dead on. I don't think its expected for anyone to stay with the first company forever. In fact, IIRC, most engineers change jobs 2-5 years after graduation and average about a 30% raise. As long as each job change is in increase in responsibilities, changing jobs won't mean much as long as it isn't every 6 months or so.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
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    Get to work engineer boy. :p
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  • krazypolk
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    krazypolk wrote: »
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    Good catch! This caught my attention, obviously! :smile: Interesting read though, as I went through a similar process back in the day, without internet of course! :)
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  • afterburnt
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    Electrical or Civil
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  • verb
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    afterburnt wrote: »
    Electrical or Civil

    BS in Aerospace, the MS in Mechanical! :)
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