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I am in High school and I am taking all regular classes and a 4 year pre-engineering high school class. I was wondering if I could get any advice from engineers on what they do, how much they make, how to prepare, etc.
What kind of Engineering? You should specialize in a certain area. I suppose that will come later, but it is something you should be aware of. Pick something that interests you. Somethin you like to do. Then apply your learning towards that particular interest. Even after you finish college, you will have to pick an area, or one will be picked for you, just like after high school. Some Engineers go on the get Masters, then Doctorates in a specialized field. I suppose you can generalize like I do. I know a little bit about everything and a lot about nothing. There is the good and bad in both choices. Somebody could specialize in a specific field, but then it is harder to find work and sometimes those fields just up and disappear due to the rapid change in technology. There are Doctors, but there are all kinds of doctors. General Practitioner - Just a general doctor. The kind you normally see for a checkup. Pediatrician - Specializes with babies Ear, Nose and throat - Female Parts doctors - Orthapedic Surgeon - Works with bones etc. This is typically what an engineer does. There is a problem. Your job find a way fix it. You may work on your own, or with a variety of other engineers in different engineering disciplines. Decide what you need to take care of that responsibility. Determine the time and cost to do such a project Go to review meetings each week to check on your progress and the progress of others. Make the necessary changes as required. Test your engineering job. Fix stuff that doesn't work. Finalize it. Ship it. Shift the project to support engineering. Support engineers take care of any problems that may develop in the hands of the consumer.
What engineering degree shouldI take and what college toaccompany it?
I am taking up engineering. What would be some similar and beneficial majors to look at. I will probably get more than one since I am planning to run my dad's business. I'm looking at architecture, civil engineering, and electrical engineering majors. Maybe two of them. I don't know which ones are in the most demand or anything. I can also go to any college in the United States to learn these things. I'd also like to know a good college to teach me engineering. Any advice?
The different engineering disciplines are different beasts. Many of the mathematical skills will be the same (calculus differentiation and integration, sometimes partial differential equations), but the laws and concepts to understand will be very different. Civil engineering deals with static (not moving) physics and strengths of materials, as well as large water systems and geological things. Beginning pay is around $40,000/yr, and there's not a particularly high demand for them. In my intro engineering class, about 60% of the students were majoring in civil engineering. Mechanical engineering deals more with dynamic physics (things that move) as well as a lot of fluid dynamics (pumps, valves and pressure, and hydraulics) and thermodynamics. There's also a little bit of programming involved, such as configuring electronic controls. Base pay is around $40,000 per year, and about 35% of the students in my intro class were majoring in mechanical engineering. Electrical engineering deals (obviously) with electricity. There are generally two aspects of it. There is the higher voltage aspect, such as power systems, and there is the lower voltage aspect, such as electronics and wireless communications. Electrodynamics and electrostatics can get very difficult - calculating electric fields becomes especially difficult when dealing with anything that has corners, because you have to use integration and partial integration to do it. There is also a lot of programming involved in both aspects. Pay generally starts at around $50,000 per year, but it's hard NOT to find a job - people will come to you. This is what I'm majoring in - specifically, electronics and signal processing. Computer engineering is much like electrical engineering, only much more focused on computer systems than any other electrical systems. They have to understand computer architecture, and they deal with how to physically create memory and how to store and access it, as well as know how to tell a machine how to do something. They have to know how to build hardware to handle different things. There is tons of programming involved, as well as very interesting problem-solving techniques using algorithms. Base pay is about $50,000 per year, and people will come to you. Chemical engineering is very difficult stuff, but also very rewarding as well. The guys who figure out how to make stuff go boom? Chemical engineers. The guys who figured out how to make your scratch-resistant glasses, shatterproof bottles, and your oh-so-soft memory foam mattress? Also chemical engineers. A lot of them work for oil companies (because that falls under organic chemistry), but they are needed for a lot of things. The hard part? Chemistry is a difficult concept for most people to grasp anyway, but add that to a whole bunch of psycho partial differential equations, and that's your job. There is a huge demand for them, and the starting pay is over $60,000. There are other engineering fields out there, but generally they would fall under either degrees in physics, chemistry, or computer science. Some examples would be acoustic engineering, metallurgical engineering, software engineering, and biomedical engineering.
How does electricalengineering compare tochemical engineeringdifficulty wise?
I'm deciding what I should major in next year. How hard is chemical engineering compared to electrical engineering. I know for a fact that it is easier to get into a university as a chem engineer major than an electrical engineer. I'm planning to go to UC Berkeley.
Which one do you think you'll like more? As cliche as it might sound, the one that you'll like more will be the easier one. I've looked at some of the work that Chem E's do and it really did not look appealing to me. I'm only a freshman right now but I'm handling the EECS material well so far though I probably won't be able to say the same for chemistry if I were Chem E. On another note, I had the same question when applying to Berkeley but eventually decided on EECS even though I thought I would be ok with Chem E. If your gpa is pretty high (4.3+ weighted or so) and SAT scores are pretty high (2200+ SAT or ACT equivalent), then you'll probably get into EECS, provided that you write a good essay. At that point, it doesn't matter which major you'll apply for, as you'll have a decent shot at any of the colleges in Berkeley. If you do get into EECS and find that you don't like it, you can switch out of the College of Engineering into the College of Chemistry. However, I know that switching INTO the College of Engineering is quite a challenge. Just throwing another piece of information out there.
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