Any engineering majors in here?

[habib89]

that's funny.. you come on anandtech and ask for engineer majors

anyway.. i'm a mechanical engineering major.. if i had to rank the engineering majors, i think i'd go EE, CompE, AE, ME, MatE, ChemE, CE

ae and me are basically the same.. at least at my school.. all the way till senior year, the classes are identical.. uhh.. i don't know much about computer engineering.. but as far as getting a job, my friend has had a job for about a year now (i think) and he just graduated as a compE... it's not an easy major in any sense.. a lot of the poeple that i started out with in my engineering classes are now business majors.. so don't take it lightly

 

[Jittles]

I'm an aerospace engineer... first quarter here at cal poly. Seems like it will be cool but i have to take such a wide range of classes. Chem, EE, structures, design, then aero core, and of course GE.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

aha, well good luck...here's my 2 cents for you...study hard...work hard...live in the computer lab...

have fun in college! hehe

 

[Keego]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
EE .... bad ... I dont know why I'm in it.

Oh yea, now I remember. Business majors just seems to be too easy, and humanities majors just seem to get a degree to line up at the unemployment office.

I agree wholeheartedly.

I wish OSU had aerospace, that's what I'm more interested in.

 

[Darien]

<--- Physics major

I know a few engineers...and from what they've told me...it seems EE is the hardest of all engineering.

Of course, if you really suck in statics, dynamics, programming...or something a bit more specific than just a lack of general math/physics knowledge, then all of 'em can be equally hard

As for which major is the "hardest," it's just relative. Most people can't do advanced mathematics...and would find the sciences and engineering to be the most difficult. From a few engineering people I've met, it seems that the hardest thing you can do is major in physics. Just some of the expressions when I tell them that I'm a physics major are too damn memorable .

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Jittles
I'm an aerospace engineer... first quarter here at cal poly. Seems like it will be cool but i have to take such a wide range of classes. Chem, EE, structures, design, then aero core, and of course GE.

Class of 95' Go Mustangs

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[MaDHaVoK]

I am studying Electrical Engineering... it blows! I have the worst teachers, most the time I have to teach myself... and of course there is tons of work... I just can't wait to graduate. One year from this dec!

 

[SgtStedenko]

Thanks for all the great replies and info! My best friend is rooming with me in the dorms and he is majoring in physics :Q. Haha! Anyway, generally, what requirements are there for internships? I want to take these during the school year and during the summer to pay for college. Can you put all the money you make towards college?

 

[SUBxWRX]

How would you guys rate BioE ?

 

[NutBucket]

This is AT. Most everyone here is in some sort of technical field; a large percentage in engineering IMHO.

<-- EE here.

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: Draknor
Ooo yeah - engineering major discussion, gotta jump in

I'm a senior CompE at Bradley in Peoria (but my gf is an ME at Iowa State, so I've been there a few times ). Haven't looked too hard for a job yet, but I got some people I'm going to contact as the winter starts setting in... So can't really comment on that yet (although, I have had 3 summers of decent internships, making some very decent money!). But I'll go into some other observations...

1. You like math, you said? Let's hope it stays that way
2. GenEds will kill you if you are not careful (not because they are hard, but because EEs/CEs (and probably other engineering majors) typically don't care very much about them, and so procrastinate on homework & studying for them, which does bad things for your GPA in the end. Speaking from experience here
3. If you are going to do CompE, you will do programming. And you will either love programming or hate it - there's usually not much of a middle road here
4. The good side of #3 is that embedded systems programmers are in hot demand, even now (or so a recruiter told me a few weeks ago). "Embedded systems programming" = programming the little microcontrollers inside of control systems
5. A good EE friend of mine (running his own consulting business & doing very well at it), said the best things about doing the EE program (and if ISU is like Bradley, the CompE & EE programs are very similar) are the discipline, the analytical skills, and the problem-solving techniques you learn. With these tools, you can go just about anywhere and be successful. I'm considering checking into biomedical technology/engineering after graduation, and my EE background will give me a good headstart over any biomed majors.

So, if you're up to the challenge (and it sounds like you are), I'd heartily recommend going CompE. Good luck, have fun, and don't waste too much time gaming

What he said. I'm currently doing my senior project for my last two semesters now. I'm a Computer Eng major and HELL is what you're gonna expect. Maybe once in awhile, you can go out drinking but don't expect you to be joining those fellas in business school for every party they go. CompEng is like an EE major and a CS major in one. You'll do more programming that you ever want. You'll program in your CS classes and your ECE classes, CS classes would teach you things like C++, java, VB and what not while ECE classes will let you play around Assembly languages (For your Microcontroller classes) and other maths program needed in the course.

Also, you'll not get much sleep if you were to step into this major. About job searching, alot of my friends are currently fresh graduate and they had to continue their master's because of the market. Maybe it's just because we're International students. Don't get me wrong. Many of them are honor students. I'm not.

Is having a GPA of 3.18 out of 4 good enough??

 

[SgtStedenko]

Well I won't be graduating until 2007 so hopefully the job market will be a lot better by then.

 

[blahblah99]

I was an ee major at ucla and all I can say is engineering is not only about reading the material and memorizing, you also have to UNDERSTAND the material and that's what makes it difficult.

Oh yeah, and you have to be motivated, not forced.

 

[acidvoodoo]

whats the diff between compE and Computer Engineering Technology

 

[TuxDave]

Oh oh oh.. I'm an engineer! Undergrad at Rutgers for ECE. Now a grad at Berkeley for EECS. I heard Iowa is pretty good. My fellow GSI (or TA) graduated at Iowa State and is now at Berkeley too. He said that there's not many companies out there so you'll probably have to leave the area after graduating.

 

[ManSnake]

Originally posted by: SgtStedenko
Thanks for all the great replies and info! My best friend is rooming with me in the dorms and he is majoring in physics :Q. Haha! Anyway, generally, what requirements are there for internships? I want to take these during the school year and during the summer to pay for college. Can you put all the money you make towards college?

If you want to intern after your freshman year, then you need to do well in your classes and have a great gpa (> 3.6), once you have proved yourself to be worthy, whoever you intern with will extend your internship until you graduate. At which time they would throw out a job offer to you. That's how most engineering majors get jobs after they graduate.

 

[Gibson486]

I am a freshamn majoring in CompE an Northeastern. I swear to God, their saying is "Flunk all Engineers'! It is so hard. In my school, all engineers take teh same courses in the freshman year. Everything is pretty hard, but physics is gonna kill you. I had a A+ in physics in highschool, and now I am flunking! We had to take our midterm 4 days ago, you know what the average was? It was around a 56 and that was with the scale! I have an A in everything else, but physcis is an F. As a an engineer, you will proabably be taking 1 extra class compared to everyone else. You will probabl? take chemstry and physics in 1 semester and just think, that is two classes per week where you have 2 hour labs! Have workstudy? Once you add workstudy, you'll scheduale will be full. Also remember that you will have lots of major products do where you have to create and build things. To let you know how hard engineering is, the grading scale is usually different. a C can extend all the way down to a 60. I am learning it now. Engineering is a very hard major that requres so much work. On my physics problems, there are times when I spend a good 2 hours on 1 problem. My advice, if you take engineering, be prepared to be bombarded by work. You will have so mnay days where stay up till 2 in the morning.

CompE vs CompE Technology?
To very different majors. The engineering tecnologu aspect has to do with more hands on things. Basically, they will test the things that regular engineers make. The course load is no where near reguakr engineering, and they do not go into much theory stuff like regular engineering.

 

[SgtStedenko]

I want to leave the area when I graduated. I want to move out west or possible overseas.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

Originally posted by: Talon02
Mechanical Engineering here, Calc 1&2, Physics 4, Chem 4, and a bunch of other stuff.

it's so fun

but it is interesting

You dont need to take calc3?!? lucky snob . I do. Mechanical engineering here, im not into the core classes yet though but i know i need to take it.

 

[acidvoodoo]

is CET more hardware based compareded to CSE which is more hardware/programming?
and with all comp courses, durin the first year do u mostly do like phy and maths classes, then in later years do more computing classes?

 

[Sukhoi]

ME freshman here at the University of Illinois. So far it hasn't been real hard, but next semester is going to be killer (Calc IV, Phycs E&M, Chem II, etc.).

 

[rayma2]

I am a 3rd year CpE student... I would say tht yes it is very hard but if you want to work hard it is the way to go.. If you dont want to work quite as hard but do the same type of work then EE is the way to go... The Curiculum for EE and CpE are almost the same, it is just that as a CpE you have to do a little more programming classes. Well good luck in whatever you choose.

 

[olouie]

no

 

[YaKuZa]

A lot of you saying that EE is harder than CompEng? How can that be? CompEng is EE + CS. You take the same classes as EE and CS majors. EE's just take EE classes that CompEng's have to take anyway without the specialization in computers, but something easier like DSP, Mems, etc. It's a lot harder to focus on hardware AND software than just hardware alone.

 

[Krakerjak]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
We had to take our midterm 4 days ago, you know what the average was? It was around a 56 and that was with the scale! I have an A in everything else, but physcis is an F. As a an engineer, you will proabably be taking 1 extra class compared to everyone else. You will probabl? take chemstry and physics in 1 semester and just think, that is two classes per week where you have 2 hour labs!

Sounds just like my first physics class.

As you go on you will have more and more labs. I currently have 16 hours per week of labs.