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I've done mechanical work: Corportate: equipment design; equipment specifications, Plant: dig apart in equipment to determine cause of failure; maintenance planning and reliability (at a plant) And chemical engineering: Corporate: plant design, steam pipe sizing (and boiler specification), water piping sizing Plant: Troubleshoot systems to determine what's broken in them when they act up (this is limited) And since some of you guys were bitching about interns posting. I did these things through 3 summers at one company, and 2 co-op terms at another. The only time my internship didn't pay over $50k was the first summer. I have 10 hours left on a BSME e: if you want more details on any of these let me know Corrupted fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Oct 3, 2009 |
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Adahn the nameless posted:I meant a master's in applied Physics. I have a B.A is Physics, but I'm not finding much with it. Unfortunately there is a bit of difference between a BA and BS in physics. Regardless, I think it may be hard without going above the bachelor's in that field.
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Oct 3, 2009 18:14
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hobbesmaster posted:Harvard is usually ranked 1 in astrophysics and will only issue you a BA in physics. Caltech will also be happy to issue you a BS in English. Don't make assumptions about the BA vs BS thing without knowing about the school you're talking about. Ah, didn't realize it was so different at other places. I retract =)
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Oct 3, 2009 20:54
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DerDestroyer posted:Remember for every 1 of you who call yourselves engineers here in North America, there's 4-5 more Indians who can be paid off all together with your salary and each one of them will do twice as much work as you. My father's firm is already exporting a lot of their engineering work to India. Apparently you haven't ever worked directly with an Indian engineer. They are great at doing exactly what they are told. Other than that, they can barely think for themselves and really won't do anything other than your EXACT directions. That can be good and bad depending on what you need. Comrade Placebo posted:I'd like to know more about Environmental Engineering as well. From what I've seen, not one myself. Permits, permits... permits! And waste water treatment at our plant. Basically remove all the organic and other stuff, leave just pure water. Release it to nearby waterway or reuse if needed.
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Oct 8, 2009 00:28
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Chachikoala posted:Some companies will place minimum GPA limits that draws a hard line in the sand for whether or not you are invited for an interview. Depending on the company it is usually between a 2.7 and a 3.3. And larger companies are stricter about it. My friend with 3 internships already was denied interviews at places with 3.0 cut offs when he had a 2.97 GPA ...
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Oct 12, 2009 03:36
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Blue Light Special posted:Anyone have experience with going for the MBA right away rather than waiting? Or has anyone participated in one of the dual MBA/MSE programs a few schools offer? Any decent school offering MBAs is going to REQUIRE you have to worked in the industry. How do you think you could possibly learn to manage anything when you have no idea how it functions? From what I've been looking at recently, the combined MBA/MSE programs don't pay for your school nor do the MSCE. The only ones I've seen that pay you to go are thesis MS and PhD, which I think is a huge incentive to get a proper degree. You would have to be into doing research as opposed to just taking more classes.
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Oct 21, 2009 00:20
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Recreations in Logic posted:Yeah for real...I knew people who made $20k over a summer back in undergrad. Pioneer gave my friend (MechE) $11k moving bonus-he drove from TX to CO-and then some pay rate close to $30/hour...It was probably among the high end of intern pay I would expect. It pays to play in oil :P
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Oct 22, 2009 00:41
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grover posted:It wouldn't be compromised at all. I did an early admissions to college thing where I spent my senior year of high school at the local community college, and found (at least in my experience) that the education was excellent, and the overall attitude and work environment better than that of a traditional 4-year school. I think the difference was that although a majority of the people in the 4-year school were there just because it was expected of them, but it was really just an extension of high school and a time to party. Whereas most of the people in the CC were either there because they couldn't afford a better school, couldn't get into a better school, or were established in their careers and going back for their degree- one thing they all had in common was they WANTED TO BE THERE. They aren't just there to get by, but actually learn. And it makes a big difference. What does Calc 5 cover? Most I've seen is 3 semesters.
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Oct 29, 2009 05:41
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Bean_ posted:We have four at VT. I was going to put a maybe on DiffEq as a fourth. We take these 4 math classes and then an elective, which generally is matrices/linear algebra
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Oct 29, 2009 05:45
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Heli0s posted:Not quite sure if this belongs in college advice or here, but I've read most of this thread and there's been tons of great advice so here goes. As far as math goes, I started college my first semester with Calculus (this was at junior college though). My high school math went something like algebra, geometry, and algebra 2. I enrolled in honors pre-calc my senior year and then dropped it to take statistics. There was a learning curve on the trig identities since it was my very first exposure, but I picked it up pretty quickly and realized what I did and didn't need. I have always felt behind in math, but I think this is true of almost everyone I met along the way to graduation. If you have more questions or want more specific answers to what you should be expecting, you can email me (thebeerbrewer AT g-mail). I graduated last year from the ME program at UT.
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May 31, 2011 23:43
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plester1 posted:Same situation here. I love working at a small company. Basically zero bullshit. I work for a small company (250 over 4 locations), and they must be trying to emulate large company bullshit because it can be off the charts.
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Jun 7, 2011 23:25
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grover posted:Do some practice FE problems, study up on where you're weak, and you should do fine; the FE has a pretty high pass rate. Print out a copy of the FE reference manual and buy an FE-permitted calculator, and do all the practice with those. Also, note that every problem on the FE exam has a trivial answer. If you're spending a lot of time crunching numbers, you're doing it the wrong way. (I found it WAY easier than the practice problems.) I agree on the difficulty. The practice book problems were much harder than the actual exam. I thought the second half would be more difficult than the first (and maybe like the harder book problems. The difficulty increase from first to second half was almost nothing. I studied maybe 4 hours in total. Didn't pass by much, but it doesn't matter because nobody sees that.
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movax posted:I think it's a better graduate degree than it is an undergraduate degree. Better you master a specific discipline like ME or EE, and then specialize in graduate school (maybe after a year or two of work). A good friend of mine graduated with ME, worked for Chrysler for two years and is now at Georgia Tech's prosthetics program, #1 in the country. As a bonus, he's also got a cool $40k or so stashed in his bank account. Yeah they reported my exact score to me only, outside of me you just see pass/fail. Had a good day and managed to pass. I have a tough time with test taking anyways. The calculator theft is some serious BS and I personally would have made a very big deal about it because that's how I am. Wolfy posted:I hope this guy didn't pass and never got a job as an engineer because that's such a scuzzy thing to do. He's lucky someone didn't cut his balls off for it. That's quite a thing to do on such a stressful day for most.
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Wilhelm posted:Hey guys, internship question here. I'm a third year Ontario civil engineering student going into a fourth year, though due to a failure in first I'll need to do a fifth. It's an internship... do whichever one sounds either: a) more interesting to you or b) is more in line with what you want to do career wise A lot of times these will go together. It is nice to work in highly-regarded companies as an intern because it helps when looking for full time. Your pay seems pretty low at both jobs, especially the repeat one. My second internship with the same company resulted in a pay increase close to as much as your total and was higher to start with. Corrupted fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Apr 11, 2012 |
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