Engineers are you out there (poll)?

[5to1baby1in5]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
I'm an aerospace engineer. I love it because of the kinds of things you work on. Call me crazy, but I think designing airplanes and rockets is 100 times cooler than designing a circuit board or something. I also love aerospace engineering because of how extreme some designs have to get. Bridges and similar structures can have factors of safety of up to 20 (hey, just add some more steel and concrete!), whereas as a satellite can have a factor of safety as low as 1.05.

What, are you some kind of rocket scientist?

Chem E here.

I actually work on control systems.

 

[ed0ggyd0gg]

Originally posted by: simms

Originally posted by: ailetlvo
Civil is pretty dynamic, never gets boring. That's what I like about it.

I always thought Civ was about static forces and moments... and Mech was the dynamics part.

I'm a Chem... I like process design.

By dynamic I meant always changing.

 

[NaOH]

Wow. A lot of fellow electricals in here.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Electrical. I love how many fine looking women are in my classes.

 

[BChico]

Originally posted by: fitzov
...that distinguishes it from other engineering fields

You forgot Industrial...I was actually Information and Systems Engineering though. I'm in operational consulting now, Digital Evidence and Discovery Services. Its pretty interesting, might go back into engineering later.

I was originally CompE, but decided I didnt really like electrical engineering. In Industrial you learn alot about optimization, probability and statistics, failure, and human interaction. I think its more applicable to the real world, since I have all of the engineering backround, but can apply it to industries outside of engineering.

 

[fitzov]

The results are surprising--I was expecting civil engineers to outnumber everyone based on labor stats. The comment about environmental being "easy" is surprising to me; it's supposed to be in higher than average demand up through 2015--the fastest growing engineering field.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Civil here who passed the PE exam back in June.

Right now, I'm mainly working on land development projects (50-200 acre multi-use subdivisions) and water/wastewater treatement systems.

Before moving to these areas of design, I did structural work involving steel, concrete, and wood design on a variety of structures. Honestly, I loved the design and number crunching of structural more than general civil work, and my emphasis was structural design in college.

However, I found I didn't enjoy working with architects and structural design was stressful. Most of the time, the architects had very little knowledge of load paths and building dynamics -- they thought I could just move a column or lengthen a beam in AutoCAD and be done with it.

But, I'm exposed to so much more with the new job such as construction contracts, grants, master planning, budgeting, etc., and that only helps in making me a well-rounded PE with experience in the numerous sub-branches of civil engineering. Besides, I handle all the structural work at my new firm, and feel like I could switch back to doing productive SE design fairly quickly.

 

[Acanthus]

Currently attending for CSEE.

 

[Oscar1613]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Electrical. I love how many fine looking women are in my classes.

i feel your pain




<-- EE/CompE

 

[Stvfarmboy]

Civil engineer here. I work for the Department of Transportation and I like that things I work on are used by almost anyone. Although I guess that can probably be said about most fields of engineering. I just enjoy the kinds of things that I work on I guess.

 

[flyboy84]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
why is "computer" in the poll? ask the real engineers, there is no such thing as a computer engineer, if the search worked you could find all the old threads bashing comptuers people with engineer titles

Software engineers get bashed for calling themselves engineers, not Computer Engineers. Computer engineers are basically EE majors who specialize in computer architecture stuff and take some more software courses than your regular EE.

<---EE here

 

[Oscar1613]

Originally posted by: flyboy84

Originally posted by: FoBoT
why is "computer" in the poll? ask the real engineers, there is no such thing as a computer engineer, if the search worked you could find all the old threads bashing comptuers people with engineer titles

Software engineers get bashed for calling themselves engineers, not Computer Engineers. Computer engineers are basically EE majors who specialize in computer architecture stuff and take some more software courses than your regular EE.

<---EE here

qft... ABET and ELSES recognize computer engineering as an engineering discipline, but not "software engineering"