All Engineers Unite!

[NatePo717]

BS in ME. Doing HVAC design. Graduated RIT March 08.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I am going to Calpoly, San Luis Obispo going for my Aerospace Engineering degree. I work at an IT firm setting up computers .

 

[Chronoshock]

BS and MEng in CS from MIT. Just started working as a software developer

 

[brxndxn]

EE for 3 years at UF.. graduated with a political science degree

work as an industrial programmer.. for phosphate mines currently

 

[Bignate603]

Is the job market for engineers that bad? There's quite a few guys saying here that they can't find a job. Out here in Phoenix I had 3 different offers 5 months before I graduated. Maybe the market is worse in other areas?

 

[SparkyJJO]

Does EET count?

University of akron, graduating in may 09, working with first energy

 

[Megatomic]

I'm about 20 credits shy of a EE degree. I wish I had time to finish it.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Bignate603
Is the job market for engineers that bad? There's quite a few guys saying here that they can't find a job. Out here in Phoenix I had 3 different offers 5 months before I graduated. Maybe the market is worse in other areas?

err we can't find EEs to hire, demand is pretty damn high right now so not sure about a bad job market.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I've been wanting to take Aerospace Engineering as my Major in college. Whats the job market like for it?

 

[ViperVin2]

BS in EE; graduated last year.
Now working for MS in Systems Engineering and MS in Business Administration

 

[pmoa]

computer engineer

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Bignate603
Is the job market for engineers that bad? There's quite a few guys saying here that they can't find a job. Out here in Phoenix I had 3 different offers 5 months before I graduated. Maybe the market is worse in other areas?

err we can't find EEs to hire, demand is pretty damn high right now so not sure about a bad job market.

That's what I thought, we can't find enough good MEs and aeros. Our staffing levels are much lower than we'd like. My group has been without a manager (manger needs to be an engineer with experience in turbine engines, not some business school grad) for 2 months because we can't find anyone qualified that wants the job. Nobody inside my group wants the job because you end up spending a huge amount of your time managing rather than working on engines.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I've been wanting to take Aerospace Engineering as my Major in college. Whats the job market like for it?

Most aerospace engineers are OLD. The average age in my turbine engines design group is 50+. They all hired on in the 60's and 70's when the cold war was going on, and the post cold war economy didn't need many more so they didn't hire many. Now this wave of people is approaching retirement and they don't have anybody to replace them. In the next 5-10 years you could move up pretty quickly.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: xeemzor
With all the unemployed engineers, I'm glad I chose accounting

Nah, they're just the ones that have time to post on ATOT.

ME, graduated in May, 2008 from ASU.
Working as a turbine engine designer.

that must be an awesome job :thumbsup:

 

[josh0099]

EE Graduated May 08

 

[misle]

EE graduated December of '05.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: xeemzor
With all the unemployed engineers, I'm glad I chose accounting

Nah, they're just the ones that have time to post on ATOT.

ME, graduated in May, 2008 from ASU.
Working as a turbine engine designer.

that must be an awesome job :thumbsup:

It's pretty cool. The 'destructive testing' seems like the most fun. I've only seen one so far. Apparently you aren't supposed to feed turbines large hunks of ice. :Q

 

[CountZero]

BS/MS EE from U of WA, doing physical design work for server chipsets now.

 

[SampSon]

You can't pay me enough to be an engineer.
CS

 

[Toastedlightly]

Originally posted by: CycloWizard
BS, Chemical and Materials, U of Dayton, May 2003
MS, Chemical Engineering, U of Dayton, August 2004
PhD, Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, May 2008

Wow. That is very impressive. Mind if I ask what field you are currently in (assuming you've found employment)?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: xeemzor
With all the unemployed engineers, I'm glad I chose accounting

Nah, they're just the ones that have time to post on ATOT.

ME, graduated in May, 2008 from ASU.
Working as a turbine engine designer.

that must be an awesome job :thumbsup:

It's pretty cool. The 'destructive testing' seems like the most fun. I've only seen one so far. Apparently you aren't supposed to feed turbines large hunks of ice. :Q

i've seen some destructive testing at my work... things go BOOM in a very amazing fashion

have you fed the engines any large birds?

 

[BChico]

Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh '06

Work in financial and operational consulting.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: xeemzor
With all the unemployed engineers, I'm glad I chose accounting

Nah, they're just the ones that have time to post on ATOT.

ME, graduated in May, 2008 from ASU.
Working as a turbine engine designer.

that must be an awesome job :thumbsup:

It's pretty cool. The 'destructive testing' seems like the most fun. I've only seen one so far. Apparently you aren't supposed to feed turbines large hunks of ice. :Q

i've seen some destructive testing at my work... things go BOOM in a very amazing fashion

have you fed the engines any large birds?

I haven't been around to see that one yet. They knocked out a turbine blade and ran one for about 20 hours last week. It finally let go and they ended up using a rake to get all the pieces out of the sand (we test the big ones out in the middle of the desert). It lasted quite a bit longer than it needed to.

 

[Indolent]

ME

 

[Special K]

BSEE & MSEE

Currently designing CPUs.