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Got a D in Organic Chemistry, thinking about not doing science anymore.

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iamtrout

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Thinking about doing product design. People have told me that the engineers design the products, but who tells the engineers what to put in the products in the first place?
 
I do not know much about that particular industry at all. I would imagine that is where some business major marketing type person would come in. I will tell you this as an unemployed analytical chemist stay the heck out of the science field unless you are going immediately into grad school and even then with a MSc times are tough.
 
Organic chemistry sucks. I barely pulled B- in both semesters of that hell. My GPA got utterly annihilated 🙁
 
Originally posted by: iamtrout
Thinking about doing product design. People have told me that the engineers design the products, but who tells the engineers what to put in the products in the first place?
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Senior engineers...
 
It depends on what type of products you want to design, but it sounds like you'd want to investigate the field of industrial design.

Also, I'd say that its these designers that pass on their vision for the product to the engineers. Its up to the industrial designer to develop the concept and the engineers to figure out how to make that concept work.

If we left industrial design solely to engineers the world would be a very beige and boxy place. 😉
 
Bob Slidell: What.. what would you say... you do here?

Tom: Look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!
 
o-chem shouldn't drive you away from science, especially if you're at cornell. there are amazing scientists at that school like professor brescher in your mcb department his research is amazing.
 
Thanks for all the replies. So I should go into Engineering and lube up for a raping to get into industrial design?

I was thinking more along the lines of consumer/prosumer electronics. There are some products in this world that piss me off.

For example, in the camera world:
Proprietary lithium batteries: AA's are better for consumers
Proprietary memory cards: Compact flash is better for consumers
Auto Focus Assist Lamp: In the case of Olympus cameras, Olympus for some unfathomable reason refuses to put this feature on any of their cameras, meaning none of their cameras can focus worth sh!t in low light.

I admit that many of my ideas are arguable because in many cases proprietarization leads to higher profits, but I'm thinking more about the consumers here. I'd rather make my customers happy than my pocketbook. I've heard so many professionals, consumers, and prosumers complain about proprietarization that I figure that something has to be done.
 
I got an A- in orgo and I was disappointed...

Then again I barely pulled a B in film, so my grades are all fed up.
 
Bump for more suggestions on my future? Going back from break soon and thinking about reworking my schedule to fit changing times.
 
Originally posted by: iamtrout
Thinking about doing product design. People have told me that the engineers design the products, but who tells the engineers what to put in the products in the first place?
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More engineers!
 
I used to be a product designer (w/ my BSME) and was promoted to an engineer. Nobody tells me what to put in the products I design. Sales tell me what there is a market/need for and we pretty much figure out the rest. As long as it works and the cutomers are happy nobody around here minds.
 
Originally posted by: iamtrout
Thanks for all the replies. So I should go into Engineering and lube up for a raping to get into industrial design?

I was thinking more along the lines of consumer/prosumer electronics. There are some products in this world that piss me off.

For example, in the camera world:
Proprietary lithium batteries: AA's are better for consumers
Proprietary memory cards: Compact flash is better for consumers
Auto Focus Assist Lamp: In the case of Olympus cameras, Olympus for some unfathomable reason refuses to put this feature on any of their cameras, meaning none of their cameras can focus worth sh!t in low light.

I admit that many of my ideas are arguable because in many cases proprietarization leads to higher profits, but I'm thinking more about the consumers here. I'd rather make my customers happy than my pocketbook. I've heard so many professionals, consumers, and prosumers complain about proprietarization that I figure that something has to be done.
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Those things you mentioned have very little to do with design. They are business decisions.
 
I love people who post in these type of threads and whine about "Oh, I got a B it screwed up my GPA, blah blah blah" and "I made an A- and was dissapointed, blah blah blah":thumbsdown: , they should just go hop into the brag and moan thread.

Anyways, dont sweat it if you like science. I made a D the first time I took Calc 1, but stuck with all the crazy maths and now am about to graduate.

 
heh, you waited until you got the D to get out of science? back in my sophomore year, i changed from a science major to a business major after sitting in one class of organic.
 
If one class determined my career, I would be doing nothing right now. Everyone goes through some form of an academic hardship.
 
Odd.. i loved organic chem. SO much more so than gen chem. To each their own though, maybe product design is your true calling
 
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Odd.. i loved organic chem. SO much more so than gen chem. To each their own though, maybe product design is your true calling
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I loved organic too. I took a full year's worth in three 4-week summer sessions. It was hard, but p-chem is what kept me from being a chem major.
 
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