engineering jobs

[binaryterror]

Diify Q as we called it, Differential Equations was kind of easy. Calc 1-3 then Diffy Q was how our school handled things for engineers, though we were not allowed any calculators at all. Diffy Q was more like hands on problems and story problem type things, I found it fun.

GMI/Kettering University BTW...

 

[bustedcrawler]

Diify Q as we called it, Differential Equations was kind of easy. Calc 1-3 then Diffy Q was how our school handled things for engineers, though we were not allowed any calculators at all. Diffy Q was more like hands on problems and story problem type things, I found it fun.

GMI/Kettering University BTW...

I think you meant Diff-e-screw :lol:! No calculators here, only had calcs were allowed. Wasn't really that bad for me anyways. Now Partial Diff Eq is a different story....

Edit: Diff-e-screw had that nickname as it was a rather tough course that would spit out people not willing to work.

 

[JeremyH]

It sounds like you guys were screwed out of a good class.

 

[obijuan]

i have to take cal 123, diff eq, and eng stats. then take all the other crap reqd for manufacturing eng. i cant wait to take more classes. i love the cool crap i get to do.

 

[JeremyH]

Truth of the matter is though a good calculator does just about all of it for you (TI-89). Once you get through the classes that is pretty much the last time you will ever use it again.

I use my 89 everyday.....hell, I am using it right now. It has paid for itself multiple times.

 

[Harley]

I use my 89 everyday.... It has paid for itself multiple times.

understatement of the century. I had two with me at all times as well as spare batteries.

Plus you can get good games for the boring classes

 

[bustedcrawler]

I use my 89 everyday.....hell, I am using it right now. It has paid for itself multiple times.

Not to mention some of the add in apps that are well worth the money, like ME Pro. Some of the best money spent, as I can short cut very simple tasks with it.

 

[JeremyH]

HaHa! Yeah, I have heard you could put games on them....never had the time for that when I was in school....and I sure as hell dont now!

Two?!? Man, when I bought mine, I could barely afford it! I found it on e-bay....NIP ~$45. Pretty sure it was hot since, at the time, they were ~$200.

 

[TLTCrawlin]

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[TLTCrawlin]

I would strongly urge you to put in your two more years and be an official engineer. I have worked with many drafters/mechanical techs and their job sucks. Trust me, drawing stuff sounds like fun, but as a job you're drawing other peoples stuff after they already got to do the fun part. After a little while it's not so fun anymore. The engineers are going to draw all of the fun stuff and give you the crap stuff and redlines. I've done it and it's not fun at all, and I love drafting/drawling.

No way in hell id be a hand drafter!!! I dont want wrist problems, and line contrasting gets annoying. ;-)

 

[Wrecker]

No way in hell id be a hand drafter!!! I dont want wrist problems, and line contrasting gets annoying. ;-)

Sitting and doing cad drafting 10 hours a day is worse. Trust me, been there done that.:lol:

As far as calculators go, they don't let us use calculators in 95% of our classes. The TI-89 I bought rarely ever gets used, it's nice to use on some homeworks to make things a little easier, but you can't use it on the test so you have to learn to do it by hand anyways.

 

[TLTCrawlin]

I wouldnt mind drawing 10 hrs a day.... I already do about an hour a day on my own time!

 

[ghinmi]

I wouldnt mind drawing 10 hrs a day.... I already do about an hour a day on my own time!

I used to be the same way, doing a lot of drafting on my own time. Trust me, you won't be happy with a drafting job for very long. It's not the drawing; it's the deadlines, pressure, long hours, etc. that get to you. The extra couple years of college to get a real Engineering degree are well worth it in the long run.

 

[TLTCrawlin]

my bros friends friend is a free lancer drafter and he makes trusses and gets good pay I thought about doing that!

 

[JeremyH]

As far as calculators go, they don't let us use calculators in 95% of our classes. The TI-89 I bought rarely ever gets used, it's nice to use on some homeworks to make things a little easier, but you can't use it on the test so you have to learn to do it by hand anyways.

I took classes like that. Most of the problems discussed in them were not even close to being true to reality. Hell most of my professors would give us formula sheets....even had one that would give us the test to take home for a week.....I just wished he had worked the problems beforehand and I hadn't wasted a ton of time on problems he created that had no answer.

BTW, I just took a board certification exam where I was only allowed the calculator on a windows PC.....man, I really had to dig up some math for that exam.

 

[bustedcrawler]

I wouldnt mind drawing 10 hrs a day.... I already do about an hour a day on my own time!

Trust us man, it's not the same. Like I said I had to do all the engineering and ALL my own drafting...not fun. AutoCAD or even any of the 3D packages are not any more fun or easier than hand drafting when it is your job. No pressure when it is for fun, and mistakes are ok. Tons of pressure and minimal tolerance for mistakes when you do it for a job.

Not trying to knock the profession here, as I know at my company I could really use more in number and more detail oriented draftsmen.

 

[slolx50]

It took me 6.5 years. But that is becasue I started as CE and switched to ME after two years. I also managed to get my math minor (one extra 500 level class as someone already mentioned), and also deciedt that i wanted to get my MBA as well. So 6.5 years of full credit loads and full summers as well and I had my BSME and MBA. Now I am a year away from trying to get my PE, that should be super fun!

On a side note the only class I had to take multiple time was Calc2, damn I hated that class. And I haven't, more than a handful of times since graduation, used any calc. However the Machinist Handbook had been one of my closest friends!

 

[TLTCrawlin]

I do agree it would get boring, what do you guys think about free lancing? My friend has a friend that is a free lancer and I guess he makes good pay and he might be interested in hiring my friend (my bros best friend but my friend too) but he wants people with basic skill and 1/2 year of college, which all he does is make trusses!

Still so bored:

Only 21 more saves so im gonna stop saving ( Ive made about 4-6 drawings but dont save must of em!

 

[aggressivellc]

Ive done a few free lance jobs while in school there is not much money involved in it unless you are really willing to get out there and push. If you want work you basically have to go out and under bid everybody else.

 

[DKNguyen]

According to CBC college, and my engineering text book
mech. engineer, two years of college, may need 4-6 if your in a higher "ranking" job
Architect is 4 years
Civil engineer is 6.

ALl engineering programs at my university are 4 years. Engineering is geometry...sort of...if you're a MecE and only to a point. I doubt chemical engineering is geometry. I am electrical engineering and it's a strange mix of math and physics.