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January 15, 2007 |
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Chemical Engineering:
This major is extremely difficult, but entirely rewarding. If you are considering this major, you must realize that you are going to be spending MANY late nights working and you will get more frustrated than you can imagine. But in the end, if you are cut out for it, you will love it
I would recommend the major to someone who enjoys math, physics, and trying to understand why things work. It is crucial that you understand concepts as opposed to memorizing facts. The surest way to fail, in school or on the job, is to not fully understand how to correctly apply a certain equation and the consequences can be huge in industry.
I liked my chemical engineering program mainly because there was little rote memorization involved. As a result of the huge library of equations a chemical engineer must use, professors usually come to the conclusion that they would rather see if you can find the correct equation and use it in the right way rather than test your memorization skills.
I would definitely choose this major again. I play guitar, rebuild engines, and read philosophy and for me there's no other major. After college you can go out and do just about whatever you want with your degree, you're not limited to any one industry. |
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January 12, 2007 |
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Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologies / Technicians, Other:
I'm a M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, and in my studies I focussed mainly on telecommunication and information theory.
I enjoyed learning more about a technology that affects everyones daily life - everyone can enjoy the fact that the various electronic daily life gadgets get better, smaller, and cheaper due to development in techology.
I'm not so sure my mother (or me, for that matter) would notice wheter the bridge she's crossing in her car is brand new, or ten years old. But she'd notice if she uses a ten years old mobile phone!
Although I don't work as a developer today, my understanding of technology enables me to grasp the challenges that faces developers of different kinds, to reason with developers and engineers, and then "translate" the problems to non-techies (i.e. business people... :-) |
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January 07, 2007 |
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Petroleum Engineering:
I cannot recommend Petroleum Engineering as a major, even though graduates are commanding very impressive salaries right now.
My reasoning is as follows: Petroleum Engineering is very mark dependent - which is why it is a highly paying career right now. Twenty years ago, when I earned my PE degree, such was not the case and many hundreds to thousands of PE's went unemployed and were forced to find other careers.
If the oil and gas industry is nonetheless intriguing enough to you to seek employment there, you can get hired with other degrees, which I WOULD recommend getting - for example, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering graduates routinely get hired by oil and gas companies. However, if there is a market downturn, those individuals are not limited to only one sector of the economy, as the Petroleum Engineering graduates are. Mechanical and Chemical Engineers can find work in numerous other sectors and companies whose viability does NOT depend on the price of oil and/or gas.
Give yourself some flexibility - study one of the more "generalized" engineering fields. You'll be happy with the variety of career options they offer you. |
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January 04, 2007 |
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Chemical Engineering:
If you're going to be a chemical engineer (or anything, really), you need to be positive about two things: (1) Do I want to work in the environment where I'm likely to work? (For me, spending much of my time in a plant or refinery environment was a real turnoff.) (2) Do I want to apply myself to the types of problems and situations I'll be confronting for the next decade or so. (Again, the answer was no.)
So if I had to do it all over again, given the career I've had, I would *not* major in chemical engineering. That said, it prepared me reasonably well for what I have done the last 20 years (software/systems development). The discipline to get long/large, complex tasks done, taking a logical approach to problem solving, the willingness to experiment, etc. are all helpful foundational tools.
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