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ddiddles posted:Another year of math? What else would I take after I've gotten the Math 143 and 144 pre reqs for Math 170? Your CC doesn't offer any courses in calc, physics, or general engineering? Check with your university's ME program to be sure, but you'll almost certainly need to take Calc III, DifEq, and Physics II as prerequisites to a lot of your ME courses. I can take care of over half of the courses I need for my bachelor's at my CC for about a third of the price. e:f,b
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You could probably find an easy job in campus IT. My experience with work study was $15/hr, 20 hr/week, and using 80% of that time for homework. But yeah definitely try to get a paid internship in the second half.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:My CC offered Calc 1, 2, 3, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations. I took them all there rather than pay university tuition for them. Hello Sailor posted:Your CC doesn't offer any courses in calc, physics, or general engineering? Check with your university's ME program to be sure, but you'll almost certainly need to take Calc III, DifEq, and Physics II as prerequisites to a lot of your ME courses. I can take care of over half of the courses I need for my bachelor's at my CC for about a third of the price. Ah, I gotcha. My want to move out of my town is trumping my want to save money on tuition, so I'd rather do those classes when they are scheduled during the normal 4 year degree and University of Idaho. You had me scared that there was another year of math before taking 170 
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Honestly, I'd really really consider taking calc and/or diff eq at the community college before you transfer. Get all your basic requirements taken care of first for cheaper in an environment with more personal attention and tutoring resources, so you can focus purely on the upper-level engineering stuff after the transfer.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:My CC offered Calc 1, 2, 3, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations. I took them all there rather than pay university tuition for them. Same here, and having linear algebra allowed me to skip some transfer success type class that generally all transfer students have to take. Apparently if you had a class that was a 300 level or above, they assume you'll be fine.
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The Chairman posted:Honestly, I'd really really consider taking calc and/or diff eq at the community college before you transfer. Get all your basic requirements taken care of first for cheaper in an environment with more personal attention and tutoring resources, so you can focus purely on the upper-level engineering stuff after the transfer. I appreciate the advice man, I'll definitely think about it.
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I can't comment on your desire to move since that sounds like a personal thing outside of academics, but I'll really just agree with what others have added: do as much as you can at community college (especially if you're going to be taking loans for university). You'll save money, get more direct instruction, and I found it a lot less competitive. I also suggest popping into the non-traditional student thread over in SAL since you fit the bill at this point and we answer a lot of the questions you asked here.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I can't comment on your desire to move since that sounds like a personal thing outside of academics, but I'll really just agree with what others have added: do as much as you can at community college (especially if you're going to be taking loans for university). You'll save money, get more direct instruction, and I found it a lot less competitive. I'm wanting to move to shake things up. I know if I stay where I am and continue to go to college for an extended period of time, I'll just slump back into my cushy job and drop out, it's happened before. Thanks for that link, reading through it now!
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ddiddles posted:So at age 27 I decided that skating by through an IT career isn't where I want to keep going, and decided getting an actual degree is probably a good idea. Just as devil's advocate: Taking all of your easy classes at CC means that your graduating GPA from your university will be based only on hard engineering classes. Kind of sucks if you transfer in with a 4.0 .
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KetTarma posted:Just as devil's advocate:
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At least check the people at the university who teach Calc I and II, at mine they were taught by a rotating door of visiting scholars who had very little in the way of English skills. I think in some cases you can get better instructors at CC level for these lower level classes.
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Uncle Jam posted:At least check the people at the university who teach Calc I and II, at mine they were taught by a rotating door of visiting scholars who had very little in the way of English skills. I think in some cases you can get better instructors at CC level for these lower level classes. Either them, or taught by math departments that take pride in teaching to math majors so making things more difficult than they need to be.
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Just be careful to make sure your CC credits will transfer to your prospective University(ies). Having to retake classes can really slow things down for you.
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Uncle Jam posted:At least check the people at the university who teach Calc I and II, at mine they were taught by a rotating door of visiting scholars who had very little in the way of English skills. I think in some cases you can get better instructors at CC level for these lower level classes. At the CC you'll get a rotating door of adjuncts that are severely depressed over the lack of tenure track jobs for PhDs.
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hobbesmaster posted:At the CC you'll get a rotating door of adjuncts that are severely depressed over the lack of tenure track jobs for PhDs. But my CC district seems ridiculously well-funded so I think they're pretty happy all around.
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Yeah, I took a few classes in high school at Saddleback (SoCal) and the classes were indistinguishable from lower dividions at my UC.
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Gorman Thomas posted:Yeah, I took a few classes in high school at Saddleback (SoCal) and the classes were indistinguishable from lower dividions at my UC.
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KetTarma posted:Just as devil's advocate: I had an easier time with the upper-level engineering classes than I did with pure math. Heat transfer and fluids were easier than DiffEq, continuum mechanics was easier than LinAlg, etc.
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I just want to say i'm a drafter at a post-tensioning firm in South Florida and i'm really happy to be paid hourly because all the project engineers work massive overtime and are salaried.
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I know of technicians that make 40+ dollars an hour and it sometimes makes me question my life choices.
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Any recommendations for online resources to look for good mechanical engineering jobs, besides indeed and glassdoor?
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I've used http://www.engineerjobs.com/ to browse jobs before. It's nice for letting you pick which engineering discipline you want to see.
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mitztronic posted:Can anyone who has worked in several different industries comment on strategies for lateral movement between industries? Is it common/best/easiest to just accept a lower-grade job in the new industry? I worked for a large tech company in the Bay Area and have moved to Aerospace out of the bay area. I don't think you have to step down, but you need to be able to perform at the level required of you. If you go from aerodynamic stuff for Lockheed to manufacturing stuff at Apple, you can probably expect to drop quite a bit. But if you were going from some sort of systems eng job that had a lot of supplier management at one to roughly the same thing just in a different industry, I think you'd be fine. I am a Mech E for reference.
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Feb 2, 2015 23:38
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The book I used to get up to speed with Python was A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python by Langtangen.
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The Chairman posted:The book I used to get up to speed with Python was A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python by Langtangen. Thanks for this. Googling the name of it produced a very helpful result. 
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So this firm I've been interviewing with wants me to fly out to meet with them so they can make me an offer in March. They're in LA, I'm in Nashville Tennessee. I did some research and it was saying median ME starting salaries in LA are around 60-70k. Does this sound about right?
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Maybe for entry level? I wouldn't move to LA for anything less than 120k, personally.
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Yeah, I'm just getting my BSME in May
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Thoguh fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Thoguh posted:Nobody is going to offer six figures for an entry level ME position that isn't on an oil rig in the North Sea or something. It wasnt an entry level but yes, the tech industry in the bay area offered that to me. Though the bay area is one of the most expensive places to live in the country. My 1700 sq ft house in Florida on a river is $450/mo less than my 400 sq ft apartment in Redwood City, CA. And I get to have a boat and feed the fish :3 I found this to be pretty accurate between Florida and the bay area: http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/ There are several others you may want to use to get an average idea of what you'd need to make to have a comparable cost of living.
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Thoguh posted:Nobody is going to offer six figures for an entry level ME position that isn't on an oil rig in the North Sea or something. Err, I know. That's why I said $60-70k would maybe be OK for entry level. When I said I'd need $120k personally, that's because I'm not entry-level and it's the COL-adjusted equivalent of what I make now.
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Yeah, I had checked out that site before to compare cost of living and it appears that compensation is appropriate for it. I'm looking forward to not having to deal with seasonal depression out there.
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I would advise any recent or soon to be EE graduates to try and get into Controls Engineering (PLC programming), it's a really nice niche to be into right now. I make way too much money for how easy my job is.
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I wanted to ask some salary advice really quick, I figure some of you might have a good idea for these numbers. I have a company I interviewed that wants a salary number but they haven't made an offer. I'm going to try to avoid answering that until they make an offer, but if they keep pushing I want to be ready with a number. I'm working in embedded software development in a midwestern city making ~$60k right now in my first job out of school. I was considering asking for $75k, hoping to end up around $70-$72k. Does that sound reasonable?
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That depends entirely on the job market and what you will be doing. Use Glassdoor, BLS, payscale and other resources you can find by googling. You should avoid naming a number if you can. If you can't you should blush just a little bit when you name the number, as long as it passes the laugh test.
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dxt posted:I would advise any recent or soon to be EE graduates to try and get into Controls Engineering (PLC programming), it's a really nice niche to be into right now. I make way too much money for how easy my job is. What is your job like as a Controls Engineer? I graduated last May as a Chem. E and have been working as a Controls Engineer at a manufacturing facility and am always interested to hear what life is like for others in my line of work.
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I'm on the DCS side of things, but I'm validating a Pharma configuration. Yay regulated industries!
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