One thing I never understood about OT: That everyone thinks engineering degrees are > *. WARNING: LONG POST W/ RANTING

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
For an alternative career in engineering, try Chemical Engineering... About as difficult as an EE degree (but in a completely different way) and there are tons of opportunities out there in industry (especially as the economy rebounds). ChemE's are employable in a very wide variety of areas.

The thing to remember is that if you can get an engineering degree, you can also get a finance degree (or an MBA). The reverse isn't necessarily true. Maybe the people in finance are making tons of $$$, but are they actually doing something worthy of earning that kind of money? Are they involved in making a physical product that a consumer will buy? What will ultimately produce more long-term value?

Maybe EE isn't the best choice for everyone, but EE isn't the end-all and be-all of engineering disciplines.

CE is a more difficult and higher paying field with MUCH higher pay scaling.

Originally posted by: Safeway
Engineering degrees are > *. There are only two PROFESSIONAL undergraduate programs -- Engineering and Nursing. Engineering graduates are qualified to do anything any other major is qualified to do, AND their own profession. Business, law, medicine, communications, marketing, engineering ...

So yes, Engineering > ALL.

nice fake post. engineers are qualified to do engineering, thats about it. Also accounting is a professional undergraduate program in many places.

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: EKKC
you don't go into engineering (CivE, CompE, ChemE, EE, ME, BE, whatever) for money.

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no, people don't go into english or psychology for the money.

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: miketheIDIOT
engineers are qualified to do engineering, thats about it.

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: JS80

Exactly, but they are no longer engineering, they are business-ing, and are now in "business." And guess what technique they use to invest in a company? Finance.

This shows complete naivete about what an engineering background provides people. Engineers are always "engineering" - far past when they are writing lines of code or designing a PLL. Do you think Larry and Sergei would have had a clue about the viability of an ultra ambitious internet indexing engine if they weren't engineers? How about how to hire the people and build the infrastructure to build it? Why do you think VCs love engineers? Not because of their expertise in coding or product design but the analytical and technical mindset that only they can bring.

On the other hand, anyone can learn principles of finance - for the average engineer, it's child's play compared to some of the highly abstract quant stuff they study for their degree. An engineer can get an get an M.S./PhD and design the next Intel chip, get an MBA and go work for Goldman, they can get an M.D. and become a neurosurgeon, or they can get a law degree and practice anything from patent to criminal law. What is of note is that they are in high demand for all 4 of those schools and fields. THAT is talent.

 

[Sea Moose]

does anyone have a brick to throw at that wall of text?