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How is the job market for electrical engineers?

xxAgentCowxx

Senior member
I was thinking about taking electronics engineering at ITT or something, if it was worth it. I need marketable skills fast, and the stuff interests the hell out of me. Any suggestions/comments/flames/rants?
 
dude, I'm about to graduate with EE and no job still. (apparently 3.5 at UT austin isnt good enough anymore)

edit: sometimes i cry. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: shuan24
dude, I'm about to graduate with EE and no job still. (apparently 3.5 at UT austin isnt good enough anymore)

edit: sometimes i cry. 🙁

another EE from UT austin? Who are you? Maybe I know you. send me a PM.
 
my friend had to go to japan and work w/ her ee degree. most of ther engineering friends don't work in their field. good luck.
 
Originally posted by: amoeba
Originally posted by: shuan24
dude, I'm about to graduate with EE and no job still. (apparently 3.5 at UT austin isnt good enough anymore)

edit: sometimes i cry. 🙁

another EE from UT austin? Who are you? Maybe I know you. send me a PM.

I'm an EE at UT also, graduating this semester.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
omg u guys are scaring the sh!t out of me:Q



<---EE student...perhaps switching to CE because he is a scared little bitch right now


EE, CE same thing dude. (with respect to the job market.)
 
Originally posted by: shuan24
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
omg u guys are scaring the sh!t out of me:Q



<---EE student...perhaps switching to CE because he is a scared little bitch right now


EE, CE same thing dude. (with respect to the job market.)

Not really...all the CE's I knew got jobs while the EE's only about 1/4th did...
 
Originally posted by: CrazyDe1
Originally posted by: shuan24
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
omg u guys are scaring the sh!t out of me:Q



<---EE student...perhaps switching to CE because he is a scared little bitch right now


EE, CE same thing dude. (with respect to the job market.)

Not really...all the CE's I knew got jobs while the EE's only about 1/4th did...

I hope you're not talking about Civil Engineering.....

 
Is that EE degree actually "electrical engineering" or electrical engineering technology? If it's the latter, that's not real engineering. My cousin graduated from Devry with CE Tech and hasn't found a job in months..but that's in Arizona.
 
Originally posted by: shuan24
Originally posted by: CrazyDe1
Originally posted by: shuan24
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
omg u guys are scaring the sh!t out of me:Q



<---EE student...perhaps switching to CE because he is a scared little bitch right now


EE, CE same thing dude. (with respect to the job market.)

Not really...all the CE's I knew got jobs while the EE's only about 1/4th did...

I hope you're not talking about Civil Engineering.....


Electrical and Computer Engineering
 
Originally posted by: MindStorm
Is that EE degree actually "electrical engineering" or electrical engineering technology? If it's the latter, that's not real engineering. My cousin graduated from Devry with CE Tech and hasn't found a job in months..but that's in Arizona.

Yes...the "real" electrical engineering.

And CE stood for Computer engineering.

The thing is I know qutie a bit about computers, and am taking a CCNa class right now, and will take many more.


I just want to be an engineer so I can then apply that to the IT industry


<--future Cisco engineer...for example😎
 
My brother, who was EE had co-ops @ alcatel and Texas Instruments. After he graduated he got a job at a small engineering company, but was laid off. He couldn't get a job so he went to get his master's. After that, he still had some trouble but I guess he got lucky and landed a job at intel. Of course, he had 3 years of work experience and a master's.. GL w/ your job search, if you keep trying you will get something!
 
<---goes to school with coop

COOP helps alot. My schools job placement rate for engineers is around 91%.

In general, the market blows now. So, take what you can get, even if you know you will hate the job.
 
Originally posted by: xxAgentCowxx
I was thinking about taking electronics engineering at ITT or something, if it was worth it. I need marketable skills fast, and the stuff interests the hell out of me. Any suggestions/comments/flames/rants?

ITT has no engineering programs. they have sh!t they pass off as engineering.


 
i got a job. the offer was made over a month ago with a smaller research-orientd company, and i accepted it last wek. i'm doing semiconductor epitaxy work.

i had an interview with intel ptd. i had previously interned with intel, and i didn't like it. the interview with intel was the worst interview experience i've ever had. arrogant, narrow-minded c*ck$uckers. i despise that place.

a second interviewer called from intel in the bay area. i declined the interview.

a manager from micron technologies called just this mornign with an opening. i told her i already took a job, and she wished me luck.


background: uiuc undergrad and ms, ucsb phd, all ee degrees, six internships at semiconductor foundaries, transistor-related thesis work

offer: less than six-figs... just less than. company is less than an hour north of la

jobs exist. go find them.
 
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