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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Tell me about being an Engineer!
 
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barking frog
Mar 15, 2004

grover posted:

No, not at all. Was more of an inside joke; most computer engineers I knew in college end up doing nothing but programming, while EEs did what's normally thought of as computer engineering. All good fields, though.
This is probably true. Most computer engineering students want a hardware job of some kind but instead graduate and go for the path of least possible resistance getting a comfortable technology job instead. Meanwhile, most electrical engineers learned so much background theory and stuff of little practical value in undergrad that they go back for a masters to give employers what they want.

Personally, I worked as a co-op for 8 months at GE as a hardware intern and that's when I decided EE was totally not for me.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Tell me about being an Engineer!