re: Engineering Career Advice - Mechanical, Chemical, Petroleum

I’m an ME working in upstream oil and gas. Stay away from a petroleum degree and the industry. New drilling techniques and production enhancements are decreasing the number of workers and equipment necessary.

Plan on 5 years to graduate in engineering and get an internship or work experience immediately. ME size material and equipment. ChemEs optimize processes including equipment selection for chemical manufacturing.

Overall, find the job you want and then get the degree and experience in college to land that job. In the real world an engineering degree means you’re the person who can handle multiple tasks and can adapt to get the job done. R&D nerds work on new stuff, the engineer just makes sure everything happens on time and on budget.

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Learn why it actually works, not the equations someone made to explain it to engineers...just my take.

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What an absurd take, but it's absolutely no surprise considering the source.

Or create them. Example: ERDC which is research and development

That's pretty good

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Literally every field an engineer does, at some level...probably have to leave out the easy engineering like Civil or Industrial. Granted, you’d have more school...but it takes longer to really figure out why than just being told to memorize the formula.

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Haha this is why you think most engineers aren't knocking down 100k five years out of school, because you are fricking stupid.

No most science grade can't even come close to doing what most engineers do. No most science grads don't come close to making the same as engineers.

And yes engineers in the plants or related industry that are worth a shite are knocking down 100k after five years. Most way more.

Retired Pete eng here .depends what you want
Pete eng high pay scale but very limited where you will live in the us and international
Very very unstable career paths and lay offs frequent and will be by departments so does not matter if ranked high. Actually will hurt cause if ranked high paid high and they are reducing cost

Chem eng can cross industries easily and be Pete if you want or others like pharma etc everywhere. So go Pete with chem eng degree for money but if you need to leave the industry easier than a Pete

ME great but lowest pay (still very good!)of them but you really can go anywhere in the world or industries. (May slip into oil as drilling engineer or facility engineer but I doubt it)
Depending on individual interest and strength big big difference in me and chem eng and he needs to go to the one he is best at. Chemistry or and hard tangible things
Does he like the lab or in the yard build stuff

FYI when I hired on forty plus years ago 13 engineers came into the district office as petroleum engineers and I was the only one with a Pete eng. others were chem and mech but things have changed
They just trained us all which was great cause I spent months at the training center drinking will the others were in class

Your Vo-Tec degree is great.

If I’m fricking stupid then oh boy...

I’ve worked a ton at AEDC.

Dude, I’ve taken every level of EE, freshman to 7XXX, I work as an ME. I use ASME codes and standards and API recommended practices...you try to program that shite into MathCad prime, or the like, without units...the whole damn industry is the same.

No big deal, But really? In undergrad we derived every single equation every single time...it was the process. It wasn’t so much learning why, it was convincing yourself why it worked.

I don't give a shite what you claim to have taken. I know you don't have a bs in engineering, and I know you're full of it with the shite you're spouting in this thread.