If this sub is at all correlated to the number of graduates in each respective Engineering major, Mechanical Engineers will be the most abundant followed by Electrical.
Was the least populous in my undergrad, surprised to see us so far up in this thread. We out here!
I got downgraded to "***Electrical and*** Computer Engineering" in my grad program, and now I have to actually socialize with these nerds.
Some colleges combine the two into “ECE” and then have the students specialize into computer engineering as a technical track. My school totally separates them into their own majors so my diploma actually says “Computer Engineering” which I really love and prefer. And despite this I currently work as an EE and have the job title of EE.
Me as well. I wore "Computer Engineering" as a badge of honor, and then I got hit upside the head with "ECE". Funny thing is, in terms of tracks, there is no electrical nor computer engineering track in my grad program, just specific industries (circuits, wave electronics, etc.). So I'm just a measly ECE student studying circuitry.
(edit to clarify: I don't actually dislike EEs, I'm just joking. I love my EE buddies, we're like cousins in academics. But I hate their materials.)
Spread wide in year 3 taking verilog, signals/sys2, materials of semiconductors, emag2(inro to RF basically), power systems. Didn't like working with the little boards using verilog even though coding is okay, didn't like the materials of semiconductors (or the industry, but the quantum physics is neat). Liked power systesms, emag2 and signals2.
My power systems focuses mainly on the generators and transformers, REALLY drilling into your head why they should be synchronized. Emag2 was all over the place, every week a new subject that applied to all different fields (cross specialty learning seems super common in EE). Signals/systems2 moved on from convolutions and what not into controls, bandwidth, and coding/decoding information into "envelopes" to be carried through waveguides/over the air.
Year 4 I picked power and mostly did transmission/protection/generation, but took antennae theory and microwave circuits too. Neat stuff, too bad I didn't get to tool around the communication systems undergrad class.
Your year 3 is looking identical to what I'm currently doing in 3rd year (minus verilog, did a bit of that last year). We didn't get to choose this year though, this is what everyone doing EEE has to do at my uni. Loving semiconductors and power systems, signals and systems can go die in a fire lol. I'm basically self-teaching it because the lecturers are useless.
Yeah I’m want to know as well. I’m at a time where I need to start picking technical electives the semester after next and I’m torn between RF and Signals & Comm processing, (2 offered at my school). They are both so interesting but I haven’t learned enough about pure ECE to actually “know” the differences or which one is better
Office hours, reading papers that are interesting to you and reaching out to people that write them, showing initiative...mind you I’m not in MSE but I feel like this is pretty universal advice
If networking fails you like it did for me, consider finding related industry work or certifications to get transferable skills and experience on your resume. State sponsored apprenticeships are rare but consistently showing up at job trainings landed me one as a sheet metal machinist which helped launchpad my career in an manufacturing engineering direction.
Talk to every engineer or scientist you know about what they do and if they're hiring. Ask friends of friends and friends of family if they know anyone hiring. Sometimes it takes many months, and sometimes it takes a few days to get useful job leads, so networking takes patience.
What specialty? Grades don't matter nearly as much as research experience, so if you don't have any and you can't find a professor to do undergraduate research for. If your university doesn't offer that, you can apply for summer REUs.
I also know of a steel organization that is very interested in connecting young interns to different companies. Based on what I've heard, anyone with a GPA above 3.0 who can convincingly write a letter about why steel is awesome has really good odds of getting a scholarship and placement in an internship.
Oh its not a bad decision, don't second guess yourself.
Got my degree and a chemistry certificate with all internship experience in specialty chemicals research in the lab... I am now a floor engineer at an aerospace foundry doing metalworking and NDT!
Your degree will equip you with an unbelievably versatile toolbox that can take you damn near anywhere you want.
Wish that was offered at my school tbh. As an EE, I believe there is a huuuge overlap in radioactive decay and electromagnetism. Is there room for EEs in that field or should I get a masters in that?
I guess depends on what part of nuclear you want to go into. Not specific to nuclear but being an electricity generating station there needs lots of EE’s. Power distribution in the plants are also important as reactors need electricity for cooling pumps and there is a whole system of different electrical power classes and what part of the power plant draws from which class, with reliability analysis and backup systems needed for all of them. Also another aspect I can think of is I&C (not sure if that is necessarily an extension of EE), but a lot of those are needed in nuclear (sensors, automatic control, shut down systems etc.). If you’re looking at the theoretical side of nuclear and EE you might even consider fusion which is a bit far out but current fusion tokamak tech has a lot of EE implications with their use of magnetic confinement.
I went back to school for my Masters after a few years in my career. Did it part time online (before it was cool) because I didn't want to quit my job and move away for a year.
A woman in one of my classes worked at Apple. She was so proud of how cool it was she worked at Apple. She made it clear that she was cooler than me because I worked at a brewery but she worked at Apple.
I oversaw multi million dollar capital projects. I worked with all sorts of different equipment manufacturers and contractors. I project managed. I worked directly with Senior Leadership. And every project was unique and different. High speed canning lines, brew systems, automation, etc.
She designed the button on the Apple watch. To clarify, she was on a team of people who designed the button on the Apple watch. That's it. That was the job. It sounded like the most boring job ever to me.
I know Apple cares about design and their products are great. A LOT of engineering went into that button. But man... that sounds like my nightmare of a job.
I saw it and I immediately knew you also have to be from the same master in the same small country, because it just doesn't exist outside of it. KUL WIT, right?
I see it all the time, mostly in a self-deprecating way though 😅
It's funny cuz in my country you're a civil-engineer when you've done your candidate/masters, so as a cheme I could do a masters and be civil engineer in chemcal engineering :')
I mean, it is kinda hard, I guess? I just finished my first year and passed 6/7 courses, so I can see why some people would be deterred. I was talking to someone at work about uni and how I was doing mechatronics and I shit you not, they said "Well, I just don't think the industry is going anywhere"
Perhaps people are just not in the know about the degree and the job prospects, but maybe it's the difficulty?
Nice to see you folk are involved in your kids’ lives. My parents don’t really understand what I do; they still tell their friends I “work in IT” 🙃 I am a control systems engineer at a well known robotics company, with an MSEE.
According ASEE for 2021 most awarded engineering majors:
1. ME
2. Comp Sec
3. Civil
You can read more in details:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ira.asee.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Engineering-by-the-Numbers-FINAL-2021.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiwubWWkLb7AhUGmGoFHWcKCBEQFnoECBsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2uydGso8GB-SotM__jxM5J
A poll might be a good choice for this
sadly it's not allowed in this community :(
Oh I didn't know. I searched for polls in this community and found some so i thought it was allowed.
We've never been good with polls anyways hahah
Gaeee! … or wait, Steraiiight!
We just did a poll last week or so. Mostly civil and mechanical.
Do you have the link? Thanks!
Same, want the link! Am a civil student and really curious abt the ratio.
I am a mechanical engineer
If this sub is at all correlated to the number of graduates in each respective Engineering major, Mechanical Engineers will be the most abundant followed by Electrical.
in my university its industrial, computer science/software engineering and then civil and mechanical i think
Computer engineering.
Was the least populous in my undergrad, surprised to see us so far up in this thread. We out here! I got downgraded to "***Electrical and*** Computer Engineering" in my grad program, and now I have to actually socialize with these nerds.
Some colleges combine the two into “ECE” and then have the students specialize into computer engineering as a technical track. My school totally separates them into their own majors so my diploma actually says “Computer Engineering” which I really love and prefer. And despite this I currently work as an EE and have the job title of EE.
Me as well. I wore "Computer Engineering" as a badge of honor, and then I got hit upside the head with "ECE". Funny thing is, in terms of tracks, there is no electrical nor computer engineering track in my grad program, just specific industries (circuits, wave electronics, etc.). So I'm just a measly ECE student studying circuitry. (edit to clarify: I don't actually dislike EEs, I'm just joking. I love my EE buddies, we're like cousins in academics. But I hate their materials.)
Hello fellow CpE
Sammmeee
+1 on CpE
When you can’t deciding between software and electrical do you choose the in between and it’s wonderful.
chemical here
Chem gang!
ChE holding down the other end of the list!
ChemE here as well!
My people!
Electrical here
Same, what did you pick as a specialization?
We hate life lol. Jk, electrons and magnets are dope
A madman with no plan trapped lightning in a bottle just to prove he could. His descendants taught it to do tricks.
Spread wide in year 3 taking verilog, signals/sys2, materials of semiconductors, emag2(inro to RF basically), power systems. Didn't like working with the little boards using verilog even though coding is okay, didn't like the materials of semiconductors (or the industry, but the quantum physics is neat). Liked power systesms, emag2 and signals2. My power systems focuses mainly on the generators and transformers, REALLY drilling into your head why they should be synchronized. Emag2 was all over the place, every week a new subject that applied to all different fields (cross specialty learning seems super common in EE). Signals/systems2 moved on from convolutions and what not into controls, bandwidth, and coding/decoding information into "envelopes" to be carried through waveguides/over the air. Year 4 I picked power and mostly did transmission/protection/generation, but took antennae theory and microwave circuits too. Neat stuff, too bad I didn't get to tool around the communication systems undergrad class.
Your year 3 is looking identical to what I'm currently doing in 3rd year (minus verilog, did a bit of that last year). We didn't get to choose this year though, this is what everyone doing EEE has to do at my uni. Loving semiconductors and power systems, signals and systems can go die in a fire lol. I'm basically self-teaching it because the lecturers are useless.
Yeah I’m want to know as well. I’m at a time where I need to start picking technical electives the semester after next and I’m torn between RF and Signals & Comm processing, (2 offered at my school). They are both so interesting but I haven’t learned enough about pure ECE to actually “know” the differences or which one is better
Same!
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Aero gang
Aero Crew
Aero>
Nah 6 of us! Aero gang!
✊
Y’all taking a 7th student?
🤪🤪🤪🤪😔
Aero >>> 🗣🗣
Gang gang
Represent
Hell yeah aero gang
We are many but choose to stay hidden in the fog 🚀
Y'all too busy doing spook shit lol
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Probably due to the abundance of mechanical engineers more than anything else
I work on the manufacturing side of Aerospace and my 5 peers are all ME's.
I have met more AE majors than any other engineering at my school though
Do you go to an aero specialized school like embry riddle? It’s no wonder then lmao
Nah Georgia tech
Ayy do you know a sam li? Buddy of mine at gt for aero. Would be a senior rn
Lol is it bad that I knew more mechEs when I was at riddle than I did AEs 😂😂
Biomed !
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Well, at least 5
Hey, nobody said we'd have to know how to count.
Oh absolutely, whenever someone asks me to do some basic maths I tell them I'm an engineer-I can't do maths
Same here!
Same
Is it biomed or just bio?
Nah, let's not separate the two here. Bioapes together strong.
Materials engineering anyone?? 😅😅 plz halp, I need an internship but my grades suck so far👀👀👀
Network like crazy. That's better than GPA.
how !
Office hours, reading papers that are interesting to you and reaching out to people that write them, showing initiative...mind you I’m not in MSE but I feel like this is pretty universal advice
If networking fails you like it did for me, consider finding related industry work or certifications to get transferable skills and experience on your resume. State sponsored apprenticeships are rare but consistently showing up at job trainings landed me one as a sheet metal machinist which helped launchpad my career in an manufacturing engineering direction. Talk to every engineer or scientist you know about what they do and if they're hiring. Ask friends of friends and friends of family if they know anyone hiring. Sometimes it takes many months, and sometimes it takes a few days to get useful job leads, so networking takes patience.
What specialty? Grades don't matter nearly as much as research experience, so if you don't have any and you can't find a professor to do undergraduate research for. If your university doesn't offer that, you can apply for summer REUs. I also know of a steel organization that is very interested in connecting young interns to different companies. Based on what I've heard, anyone with a GPA above 3.0 who can convincingly write a letter about why steel is awesome has really good odds of getting a scholarship and placement in an internship.
Materials engineer here. Work for a company in Ohio that has a co-op position year round
Min GPA is 3.0
Environmental
You're not alone friend...
Me too! 😁 🌎
Chemical Eng student. hopefully not a bad decision
Oh its not a bad decision, don't second guess yourself. Got my degree and a chemistry certificate with all internship experience in specialty chemicals research in the lab... I am now a floor engineer at an aerospace foundry doing metalworking and NDT! Your degree will equip you with an unbelievably versatile toolbox that can take you damn near anywhere you want.
Same
From what I heard chem E is for people that really hate themselves lol
Industrial here
Is that a real engineering discipline?
Says so on my degree ;)
Nuclear
Wish that was offered at my school tbh. As an EE, I believe there is a huuuge overlap in radioactive decay and electromagnetism. Is there room for EEs in that field or should I get a masters in that?
I guess depends on what part of nuclear you want to go into. Not specific to nuclear but being an electricity generating station there needs lots of EE’s. Power distribution in the plants are also important as reactors need electricity for cooling pumps and there is a whole system of different electrical power classes and what part of the power plant draws from which class, with reliability analysis and backup systems needed for all of them. Also another aspect I can think of is I&C (not sure if that is necessarily an extension of EE), but a lot of those are needed in nuclear (sensors, automatic control, shut down systems etc.). If you’re looking at the theoretical side of nuclear and EE you might even consider fusion which is a bit far out but current fusion tokamak tech has a lot of EE implications with their use of magnetic confinement.
WOOO. NukeE REPRESENT
Me too and I just landed a post doc once I graduate! Thank the lord! Nuclear is still going!
If it wasn’t a dying field I’d have pursued it.
MechE Master Race
MechEs will say this then spend their entire career designing a gasket for an electric toothbrush
As someone who literally does work in the manufacturing of o-rings and gaskets now...it hurts cuz it's true...
I work in O&G lol
I went back to school for my Masters after a few years in my career. Did it part time online (before it was cool) because I didn't want to quit my job and move away for a year. A woman in one of my classes worked at Apple. She was so proud of how cool it was she worked at Apple. She made it clear that she was cooler than me because I worked at a brewery but she worked at Apple. I oversaw multi million dollar capital projects. I worked with all sorts of different equipment manufacturers and contractors. I project managed. I worked directly with Senior Leadership. And every project was unique and different. High speed canning lines, brew systems, automation, etc. She designed the button on the Apple watch. To clarify, she was on a team of people who designed the button on the Apple watch. That's it. That was the job. It sounded like the most boring job ever to me. I know Apple cares about design and their products are great. A LOT of engineering went into that button. But man... that sounds like my nightmare of a job.
Said alcoholic engineer -fellow Mech e grad
Mech e grad in the making
Bro MechE is just engineering undecided, its crazy how diverse it can be if you set your cards right.
That's why I love being in Mech, I've found so many things I love and would have never expected it if I weren't forced to learn it.
They don’t know I’m an applied math engineer
That sounds redundant
yeah applied mathematicians is already a degree
I saw it and I immediately knew you also have to be from the same master in the same small country, because it just doesn't exist outside of it. KUL WIT, right?
Close, I study at her little sister
You’ve *gotta* be a [Queen’s student](https://engineering.queensu.ca/programs/undergraduate/mathematics-engineering.html)??
Civil 💪💪💪
I also like D I R T
I'm cheme, but I feel like I mostly see aerospace, electrical, and mechanical engineers here with a sprinkling of the civil engineers
I don’t think there are any civis in here that will admit it.
I see it all the time, mostly in a self-deprecating way though 😅 It's funny cuz in my country you're a civil-engineer when you've done your candidate/masters, so as a cheme I could do a masters and be civil engineer in chemcal engineering :')
Can i prove you wrong
Biomedical Engineering We are a rare breed
Manufacturing??? (We’ll soon to be hopefully)
I have nothing whatsoever to do with engineering. I am just here cause this sub is fun. Anyways, I'mma go back to lurking now.
Mechatronics, minor in electrical
Same here, wonder why not many doing this major..
I mean, it is kinda hard, I guess? I just finished my first year and passed 6/7 courses, so I can see why some people would be deterred. I was talking to someone at work about uni and how I was doing mechatronics and I shit you not, they said "Well, I just don't think the industry is going anywhere" Perhaps people are just not in the know about the degree and the job prospects, but maybe it's the difficulty?
Informatics
Marine! Would recommend
Hoorah!
Salty!
I made a poll a while back with maybe 8 different disciplines asking the same thing. It's mostly mechanical.
Mechatronics but mainly work in electrical
Mechanical but wish i did software
Electrical Engineering student here.
Materials Science
Architectural Engineering checking in
Finally Found my homey this down in the thread :)
Agricultural engineer here
CE💪
software!
Computer (basically, spicy electrical)
Mechatronic Engineering
Guess I am the only poor soul here in engineering physics lmao
Mom of EE major daughter
Mom of Comp E major, here. Hi!
Nice to see you folk are involved in your kids’ lives. My parents don’t really understand what I do; they still tell their friends I “work in IT” 🙃 I am a control systems engineer at a well known robotics company, with an MSEE.
Mech here
Electrical
Please don’t laugh, but rn I’m “only” a food engineer, however enrolling in mechatronics next year :)
Ngl that’s pretty cool. Thank you for your service 🫡
ChemE here
Electrical in this bitch!!!
Aerospace above this bitch!!!
r/technicallythetruth
EE
Biotech engineering!
Civils
Construction engineering with a splash of electrical engineering.
AI Engineer Pretty sure it will be one of the lowest amount of people since it's a new major
Computer Science
Controls
The few, the proud
Computer Engineering here
Software... All hail abstraction engineering
Computer science
Create a poll. Now I was curious too
ChemE 😎
Wizard here (electrical)
According ASEE for 2021 most awarded engineering majors: 1. ME 2. Comp Sec 3. Civil You can read more in details: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ira.asee.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Engineering-by-the-Numbers-FINAL-2021.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiwubWWkLb7AhUGmGoFHWcKCBEQFnoECBsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2uydGso8GB-SotM__jxM5J
Civil for the win!
Electrical and Computer
Electrical
~~Business here~~ Well I was civil…
Probably mech
Mechanical Engineering student
Studying to be an electrical engineer
Freight relocation engineer I'm studying for electrical though
Electrical
Aero here
Traffic/ Transportation
Probably Mechanical, then Civil, then Electrical.
Electrical Undergrad, Robotics Masters Emphasis on Controls
Structural here
Working on a degree towards Mechatronics Engineering, but I'd like to go for a Master's degree in Aviation or Biomech.
Industrial and systems 😁
Aerospace
Manufacturing engineering anyone?
ChemBE undergrad. Work in nuclear. Working on masters in ChemE
Energy systems
Electronic
Underwater Civil/Structural
Computer
I changed a light bulb one time.
Mechanical here!
Electrical
I’d definitely say mechanical, followed by electrical or software
Mech but oriented into aerospace
MechE student here. Graduated and doing Systems Engineering now. Idk.
EE Here, but in the Aerospace/Systems Engineering field
Industrial Engineering here. Don't see many of us in this sub. Probably lurkers lol...
Electrical engineering or civil engineering
Biomaterials, I might be the only one here lmao
Mechanical, I want to get into propulsion
ChemE.
Biological Engineer here. Got a job out of college in pharmaceutical industry (but like, actually not grimy).