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Attention engineers and engineer students...
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:18 am
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:18 am
I need some advice....
I have a son who attends NC State University in Raleigh. He is a junior majoring in electrical engineering. He has already received a minor in math and Mandarin Chinese.
Yesterday he calls me and tells me he doesnt think he can do it anymore. He was under such distress it is breaking my heart and I just dont know how to support him. He says he is in the highest level engineering classes and that it is impossibly hard. His biggest concern is that he worries the work he is doing now is what he is going to be doing the rest of his life.
Can someone please tell me what electrical engineers really do for a living and is he going to be limited to working in a cubical doing impossibly difficult math for the rest of his life. I just dont know what to tell him. My instinct wants to tell him to stick it out... but I dont want to be responsible for encouraging him into a career he hates. Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom.
PS. He loves computer engineering but NCSU will NOT let him switch programs.
I have a son who attends NC State University in Raleigh. He is a junior majoring in electrical engineering. He has already received a minor in math and Mandarin Chinese.
Yesterday he calls me and tells me he doesnt think he can do it anymore. He was under such distress it is breaking my heart and I just dont know how to support him. He says he is in the highest level engineering classes and that it is impossibly hard. His biggest concern is that he worries the work he is doing now is what he is going to be doing the rest of his life.
Can someone please tell me what electrical engineers really do for a living and is he going to be limited to working in a cubical doing impossibly difficult math for the rest of his life. I just dont know what to tell him. My instinct wants to tell him to stick it out... but I dont want to be responsible for encouraging him into a career he hates. Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom.
PS. He loves computer engineering but NCSU will NOT let him switch programs.
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Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:18 am to tigerhoney
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tigerhoney
50000 pages
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:21 am to tigerhoney
EE here and married to a (female) EE (no pics). Neither of us do any math and he most likely won’t either unless he works in some highly technical research environment. Computers do math, we use computers.
Tell him to stick it out, it’s worth it.
Also, pics?
Update: if he doesn’t want to stick it out and wants to change majors, send him the Nurses thread. Switching to the medical field may be a good choice.
Tell him to stick it out, it’s worth it.
Also, pics?
Update: if he doesn’t want to stick it out and wants to change majors, send him the Nurses thread. Switching to the medical field may be a good choice.
This post was edited on 1/23/20 at 11:25 am
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:21 am to tigerhoney
College is definitely the hardest part.
It is very worth sticking it out. I always thought that getting my engineering degree was like buds in the navy.. hard as shite to weed people out.
It is very worth sticking it out. I always thought that getting my engineering degree was like buds in the navy.. hard as shite to weed people out.
This post was edited on 1/23/20 at 11:22 am
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:22 am to tigerhoney
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Can someone please tell me what electrical engineers really do for a living and is he going to be limited to working in a cubical doing impossibly difficult math for the rest of his life
I'm civil, and I sit around reading TD most of the day. Coffee is good too.
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He loves computer engineering but NCSU will NOT let him switch programs
frick that, he needs to tell them it's his money and he'll switch his major to interpretive photography of birds if he feels like it.
Tell him if he really can't handle it, switch to an easier engineering. But don't make the mistake of throwing away all those pre-reqs by completely changing fields
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:22 am to tigerhoney
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Can someone please tell me what electrical engineers really do for a living
Most of us here sit in a cubicle and post on TD all day...
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is he going to be limited to working in a cubical
Probably
quote:probably not. I work in a lab setting where the most difficult thing I've had to recall off the top of my head is ohms law. In previous jobs it hasn't been much different, just varying levels of paperwork.
doing impossibly difficult math for the rest of his life.
quote:this seems off. At LSU, C(omp)E and EE were essentially the same program. Hell, you could double major for an extra semester or two. I hated the programming though.
He loves computer engineering but NCSU will NOT let him switch programs
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:22 am to tigerhoney
As someone who is pretty comfortable spelling the common abbreviation for an electrical engineer, I can say with strong conviction that it will get easier. He should stick it out since he's so close. The things he's doing now are likely as tricky and difficult as his work will be, I guess.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:24 am to tigerhoney
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I need some advice....
here you go
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you can tell jr to grow a pair, if he's this much of a puss he won't do very well in the real world
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:24 am to tigerhoney
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electrical engineers really do for a living a
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Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:25 am to tigerhoney
show me your boobies.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:27 am to tigerhoney
quote:
I need some advice....
I have a son who attends NC State University in Raleigh. He is a junior majoring in electrical engineering. He has already received a minor in math and Mandarin Chinese.
Yesterday he calls me and tells me he doesnt think he can do it anymore. He was under such distress it is breaking my heart and I just dont know how to support him. He says he is in the highest level engineering classes and that it is impossibly hard. His biggest concern is that he worries the work he is doing now is what he is going to be doing the rest of his life.
Can someone please tell me what electrical engineers really do for a living and is he going to be limited to working in a cubical doing impossibly difficult math for the rest of his life. I just dont know what to tell him. My instinct wants to tell him to stick it out... but I dont want to be responsible for encouraging him into a career he hates. Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom.
PS. He loves computer engineering but NCSU will NOT let him switch programs.
Welcome to adulthood.
The good thing is the amount of money he'll be making will make all the BS a little more tolerable.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:28 am to tigerhoney
The main thing he needs to learn from majoring in electrical engineering is how to be condescending towards anyone he meets who graduates with a different college major.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:29 am to tigerhoney
Push through
The classes he is taking will be harder than the majority of the work he will do. The stress is a big part of the education.
If he's a junior; DO NOT QUIT.
You're almost there.
ETA: Drop a class. Take a W. Whatever. Even if it takes you a semester or year longer. Get it done.
The classes he is taking will be harder than the majority of the work he will do. The stress is a big part of the education.
If he's a junior; DO NOT QUIT.
You're almost there.
ETA: Drop a class. Take a W. Whatever. Even if it takes you a semester or year longer. Get it done.
This post was edited on 1/23/20 at 11:30 am
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:32 am to tigerhoney
We got two electrical engineers on staff at my office. They deal with lighting and security surveillance stuff. They are out and about all day long. Seems like they enjoy their jobs a lot
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:33 am to tigerhoney
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was under such distress it is breaking my heart and I just dont know how to support him.
Tell him that's what being an adult is like and he needs to figure his shite out
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:34 am to tigerhoney
I'm a CS grad, most of my classes had plenty of EE majors in them. I'm a programmer now and I work with plenty of EE grads. Those degree programs are challenging, but they're worth it.
Engineers spend more time reading and writing specifications than crunching equations. It's the finance and accounting folks who mess with numbers all the time. He'll miss solving math problems after he's working for a while.
Engineers spend more time reading and writing specifications than crunching equations. It's the finance and accounting folks who mess with numbers all the time. He'll miss solving math problems after he's working for a while.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:36 am to tigerhoney
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He is a junior majoring in electrical engineering.
This is the hardest year by far for an EE, it gets much better senior year when you go for your specified focus classes. Junior year is the full on weed out the weaklings year.
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Can someone please tell me what electrical engineers really do for a living and is he going to be limited to working in a cubical doing impossibly difficult math for the rest of his life.
I mostly hung out in a cubicle playing with databases and spreadsheets. You don't do that much math, it's done by computers if you even get to do that kind of design. Now I am a field engineer and I run around the Tennessee Valley troubleshooting and testing equipment. It's fun as hell and glad to have escaped the cubicle hell of downtown Chatt.
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He loves computer engineering but NCSU will NOT let him switch program
Yeah, this happens when the head of the program wants to be a dick. Tennessee's computer and electrical program were under the same head, so you could do either, I hate programming though so I went power.
This post was edited on 1/23/20 at 11:38 am
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:36 am to tigerhoney
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He loves computer engineering but NCSU will NOT let him switch programs.
Why?
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:36 am to tigerhoney
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tigerhoney
How you doin'?
quote:
My instinct wants to tell him to stick it out...
You got good instincts....as well as....nm.
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He loves computer engineering but NCSU will NOT let him switch programs
bullshite! I'd tell them it's either switch programs or switch schools.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:40 am to tigerhoney
Work isn’t as hard, or as interesting. He doing DSP? Engineering could be harder, tell him to go sit in a condensed matter physics class.
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