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YACT (Yet Another College Thread, from yours truely)

T_Yamamoto

T_Yamamoto

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During my time banned from here, I finished my homework a lot quicker and browsed Reddit, but I also pondered about my college major and what college I'd want to attend. I first had thought SIS (Systems and Information Sciences) and something along the lines of computer security. Then I began to think about myself. What I could bring to the table. I instantly thought of my creativity and my (sometimes unorthodox) ability to come up with solutions. That's where it led me to my current major, mech e. Specifically, getting a job designing computer cases. I know I want to be around computers, designing something for them. I love designing all sorts of weird stuff for them. To me, I've checked a lot of big companies (Antec, Bitfenix, Fractal Design) and they all seem not to be hiring any designers or mech e people. I also plan on pursuing this major at one of the best engineering schools on the east coast.

Tl😀r want to get mech e major
Want to go to NCSU
Want to be case designer
Does anyone know how to land my dream job?

Kind regards
Takumi
 
A computer case designer? Uh, good luck with that (i.e. finding a good paying job doing so).

Mechanical Engineering is great, but I wouldn't limit myself or expect to only work on computer cases.
 
IMO going to a 4-year school to train for a specific job isn't really the right attitude. you should have lots of opportunities with an engineering degree though.
 
Mech E is great - You don't need that degree to build computer cases. You can do something much more exciting and interesting than building computer cases.
 
Designing computer cases would probably be better matched by an industrial design degree. It's a more focused, more tech school type of degree that is more CAD, stress calculations, and screws per foot.

When I got my masters in MechE, I was surrounded by a bunch of car buffs. Aerospace Engineering was a bunch of space / plane junkies. If I had known beforehand, I would have gotten my masters in EE to meet other computer nerds.

Hey neat, my advisor for my MS got her PhD at NCSU.
 
It ain't gonna happen. If you really want to do "case designing" (which sounds boring as fuck btw), do it on your own time and maybe you can fill some sort of niche market.
 
clamum said:
A computer case designer? Uh, good luck with that (i.e. finding a good paying job doing so).

Mechanical Engineering is great, but I wouldn't limit myself or expect to only work on computer cases.
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This, not to mention that by the time you graduate, even fewer people will be using desktops in their home than now.
 
I just want to be surrounded with computers. I know I'm being narrow minded right now, but I guess my eyes will open up to opportunities once they arise. Anyone have a mech e degree? Wanna tell me what kinda stuff you do? I've been taking drafting classes and we're currently playing around in autoCAD. I personally like Inventor better.
 
LoL, this thread ... WINNING !! TrindenT and Yama sharing a crack house in LA with an unorthodox will to win friends and influence people.
 
T_Yamamoto said:
I just want to be surrounded with computers. I know I'm being narrow minded right now, but I guess my eyes will open up to opportunities once they arise. Anyone have a mech e degree? Wanna tell me what kinda stuff you do? I've been taking drafting classes and we're currently playing around in autoCAD. I personally like Inventor better.
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drafting/modeling is such a limited part of engineering that it should barely be considered. You'll learn one thing and a job will require another.

I'm a mech e graduate and currently work as an applications engineer for a major pump manufacturer. I do very little engineering work and will probably start going into a more of a supply chain or product management role in the future.

There are millions of mechanical engineers but very few of them are actually design engineers. Doing something as mundane as computer cases (or enclosures in general) is not something a mechanical engineer would do - it would be something that an drafter with a 2 year technical degree would do as well as an industrial engineer of some sort.
 
T_Yamamoto said:
During my time banned from here, I finished my homework a lot quicker and browsed Reddit, but I also pondered about my college major and what college I'd want to attend. I first had thought SIS (Systems and Information Sciences) and something along the lines of computer security. Then I began to think about myself. What I could bring to the table. I instantly thought of my creativity and my (sometimes unorthodox) ability to come up with solutions. That's where it led me to my current major, mech e. Specifically, getting a job designing computer cases. I know I want to be around computers, designing something for them. I love designing all sorts of weird stuff for them. To me, I've checked a lot of big companies (Antec, Bitfenix, Fractal Design) and they all seem not to be hiring any designers or mech e people. I also plan on pursuing this major at one of the best engineering schools on the east coast.

Tl😀r want to get mech e major
Want to go to NCSU
Want to be case designer
Does anyone know how to land my dream job?

Kind regards
Takumi
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Try broadening your career goals, there are thousands of engineering jobs doing way more complex tasks then designing cheap plastic boxes to be sold for the lowest price.
 
T_Yamamoto said:
Trying to be nice and mature for once and I'm getting trolled.

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You're actually getting sincere advice from about half of the people. (The other half, well, this is ATOT. We can't be 100% serious all the time.)

To give you an idea of why being a mechanical engineer isn't a good path to designing cases, think about what goes into deigning a case, then go look at the coursework you'll have in your Mech E program. You'll find that the courses are deigned to prepare you to build engines, aircraft, and power plants. By the end, you'll be massively overqualified to build cases.

Now, that said, I still recommend you go forward with your plan, but with a more open mind. Chances are, you'll find something else along the way that you'd be totally happy (perhaps even more so) to be working on, and that will dominate your plans until something else comes along.

Realize, also, that it's OK if you go in thinking you'll do one thing and end up with something else. At each step of my education, I've entered thinking I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and I've left with a completely different set of ideas. That's totally normal.
 
crashtestdummy said:
You're actually getting sincere advice from about half of the people. (The other half, well, this is ATOT. We can't be 100% serious all the time.)

To give you an idea of why being a mechanical engineer isn't a good path to designing cases, think about what goes into deigning a case, then go look at the coursework you'll have in your Mech E program. You'll find that the courses are deigned to prepare you to build engines, aircraft, and power plants. By the end, you'll be massively overqualified to build cases.

Now, that said, I still recommend you go forward with your plan, but with a more open mind. Chances are, you'll find something else along the way that you'd be totally happy (perhaps even more so) to be working on, and that will dominate your plans until something else comes along.

Realize, also, that it's OK if you go in thinking you'll do one thing and end up with something else. At each step of my education, I've entered thinking I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and I've left with a completely different set of ideas. That's totally normal.
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I guess I'm not totally set on a major yet then. Those classes look awfully boring in my opinion.
 
T_Yamamoto said:
I guess I'm not totally set on a major yet then. Those classes look awfully boring in my opinion.
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Enter as an engineering student. Pretty much all engineering undergrads take the same courses in the first year, and you'll also get some lightweight exposure to a few different fields, enough to see which of them you like best. If, at the end of all this, you still don't like engineering, it's easy to move from engineering to another major (but much harder to go the other way).
 
if you want to be surrounded by computers, EE is a better bet. regardless you can start in the engineering program, its the later classes that usually differentiate the degree
 
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