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I'm just throwing this question out here to spark some discussion.
Let's say a high school student gets excellent grades in math and science. They want to pursue a degree in engineering but they aren't mechanically inclined. Would it be ill advised to pursue a degree in something like mechanical or civil engineering? What about other branches of engineering?
I'm just throwing this question out here to spark some discussion.
Let's say a high school student gets excellent grades in math and science. They want to pursue a degree in engineering but they aren't mechanically inclined. Would it be ill advised to pursue a degree in something like mechanical or civil engineering? What about other branches of engineering?
Thank you
Don't do Civil unless you want less pay for more competition within your job market.
As a civil engineer I haven't noticed any of this.
And Geotech has something like a 0% unemployment rate if I remember right. Also, I would wager Enviro would be in an upward trend in demand.
All of these other engineering disciplines you mentioned are fine professions of course.
Where I live (Texas), Civil gets paid the least. Plus they have a lot of competition. As an example, look at the amount of Civil Engineers that took the P.E. exam recently in Texas: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE EXAMINATION BY DISCIPLINE
685 Civil Engineers. Compare that to the number of Nuclear Engineers... 2.
I'm not saying you can't get a good job with it-- it just won't be one that pays as much as some of the other majors. (unless you are a stellar student / outlier)
Where I live (Texas), Civil gets paid the least. Plus they have a lot of competition. As an example, look at the amount of Civil Engineers that took the P.E. exam recently in Texas: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE EXAMINATION BY DISCIPLINE
685 Civil Engineers. Compare that to the number of Nuclear Engineers... 2.
I'm not saying you can't get a good job with it-- it just won't be one that pays as much as some of the other majors. (unless you are a stellar student / outlier)
That's a little misleading because there are also bound to be more civil jobs out there than other engineering jobs (in pure numbers I mean) but you are right when you say a civil engineer probably wont make as much as an aerospace engineer or such.
I'm just throwing this question out here to spark some discussion.
Let's say a high school student gets excellent grades in math and science. They want to pursue a degree in engineering but they aren't mechanically inclined. Would it be ill advised to pursue a degree in something like mechanical or civil engineering? What about other branches of engineering?
Thank you
I know someone with a biomedical enginnering and an aerospcae engineering degree and working on her doctorate.
She calls me every time she gets an oil change for advice on her car. She built a radioflyer wagon wrong and cut herself on a child safety feature on a bottle of dish detergent.
I work with a lot of engineers most are not that mechanically inclined a lot of times the mechanically inclined people tell them the fix and they come up with the fix and they justify and validate it with engineering.
Don't get me wrong there are a bunch of mechanically inclined engineers out there.
OK, voice of some experience talking here. I tried that and failed miserably. Fortunately I figured it out pretty quick--my advisor had me take a drafting class (back in the old days before CAD) and I failed so bad it wasn't even funny. The reason? I couldn't "see" the way an engineer needs to be able to. It hasn't got anything to do with intelligence--you could be a math whiz but if you can't see like an engineer, you'll be spinning your wheels. My father taught EE and maybe he thought I was dumb and maybe he understood but it's the class that separates the engineers from the non-engineers so take that first--nowadays I guess it would be a CAD class.
OK, voice of some experience talking here. I tried that and failed miserably. Fortunately I figured it out pretty quick--my advisor had me take a drafting class (back in the old days before CAD) and I failed so bad it wasn't even funny. The reason? I couldn't "see" the way an engineer needs to be able to. It hasn't got anything to do with intelligence--you could be a math whiz but if you can't see like an engineer, you'll be spinning your wheels. My father taught EE and maybe he thought I was dumb and maybe he understood but it's the class that separates the engineers from the non-engineers so take that first--nowadays I guess it would be a CAD class.
How do you "see" like an engineer? What's involved?
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