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re: Attention engineers and engineer students...
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:34 am to tigerhoney
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.
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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'?
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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.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:42 am to tigerhoney
I am very well versed in electrical engineering. But first, is that you in your avi or sig?
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:42 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
It really depends. The things you learn will be applied (not necessarily everything you learn), but what you do in school doesn't really represent the work place.
It all depends on what sector he goes into. He will likely have to go into the field from time to time (at the least). As he moves up, he could mostly be doing check work. Being assigned to a project as head of electrical and have more of a manager type role.
This is just my advice but I wouldn't force him to do anything he is dead set on not doing. A lot of people plan on going into engineering and once they get into the meat of things, they decide it isn't for them. It takes certain types of people to be engineers (that goes beyond intellectual because I know engineers who are pretty fricking stupid).
Does he have an interest in something else?
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:43 am to OweO
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Does he have an interest in something else?
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:46 am to tigerhoney
What classes are he in currently?
Ive had various jobs in EE. Ive had 100% field work, Ive had jobs where I split time between factory, field and cube. My current position is a design position, only go out into the field for scoping normally. Very little math I use. Classes were definitely much harder than anything I do on the job.
Ive had various jobs in EE. Ive had 100% field work, Ive had jobs where I split time between factory, field and cube. My current position is a design position, only go out into the field for scoping normally. Very little math I use. Classes were definitely much harder than anything I do on the job.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:47 am to OweO
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:48 am to dj30
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Classes were definitely much harder than anything I do on the job.
part of the education, in a lot of fields, mental toughness, punk kid of the OP doesn't seem to have any
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:49 am to tigerhoney
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he going to be limited to working in a cubical doing impossibly difficult math for the rest of his life.
Not if he learns how to create formulas in excel.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:50 am to eScott
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Not if he learns how to create formulas in excel.
or code
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:51 am to 777Tiger
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:52 am to tigerhoney
Im a recent Civil grad, and I think pretty much every Engineering Student hits a point wehere they say screw it i'm tired of this shite. Mine was after the fall of my Junior year after a Circuits test (EE2950 at LSU) that was computer based multiple choice, and every answer I came up with wasn't an option. I walked tsraight out and called my dad and said I was ready to be a history teacher. When I went speak to a History department member he said it add a year and a half of school. When I actually thought about it and saw how close I was and how much more money I was gonna make it was an easy decision. Now I've been working with a good company for a year and a half, and although I don't love the work its a good laid back environment. Just tell him to take a step back, and I'm sure he'll stick it out
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:52 am to OweO
You’re completely full of shite
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:52 am to tigerhoney
College was easily the hardest part.
Although my job requires an engineering degree, I do nothing of what I did back in college.
And there was more than one moment where I nearly walked off of campus, ready to move to the Caribbean and be a homeless beach bum.
Although my job requires an engineering degree, I do nothing of what I did back in college.
And there was more than one moment where I nearly walked off of campus, ready to move to the Caribbean and be a homeless beach bum.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:53 am to tigerhoney
Tell him to go into IT. That is where the real money's at.
also:
Attention Engineers > Attention Whores
also:
Attention Engineers > Attention Whores
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:53 am to tigerhoney
Stick it out. Spread course work out further if needed to ease work load each semester.
He won’t be doing all of the difficult math everyday he just needs to know where numbers behind the calculations come from so he can make better decisions while problem solving.
He won’t be doing all of the difficult math everyday he just needs to know where numbers behind the calculations come from so he can make better decisions while problem solving.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:55 am to tigerhoney
Probably not a cubicle for long, but instead move up to a small cube shaped office.
Mostly making coffee and fixing copiers.
Mostly making coffee and fixing copiers.
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