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7/28/2009 8:39:03 AM

ha I was just messing around when I said that. I know mechanical is a lot more applicable than aerospace. I just love aerospace, that's all.

7/28/2009 9:15:55 AM

I think my problem with going through EE/CPE was that I wasn't able to get any real world experience (lack of intern/co-op opportunities). And the engineering job market was just starting to pick back up in 2004. It was fairly hard to find anything without experience or a big brain/ego.

So, I didn't really land anything in the field. Ended up doing a software related job. Now I'm in the IT field that I enjoy quite a bit. Which, I guess looking back at it, I could've gotten here without going through the engineering curriculum.

7/28/2009 12:11:12 PM

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"ha I was just messing around when I said that. I know mechanical is a lot more applicable than aerospace. I just love aerospace, that's all."

Figured.
And if things keep looking the way they have been for me around Charlotte, I might be sending an application your way pretty soon.

7/28/2009 1:15:05 PM

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"I didn't read the whole thread, but my guess in the current economy would be civil engineering"

LOL, only if you get a chinese language minor to go along with it.

I'd say computer engineering hands down. It currently has the highest earning potential of the three listed and there is a super wide range of things you can do from programming, to hardware design, to networking. Hell, you can even work with the civil engineers and design traffic systems. You should definitely get the double in EE while you're at it; even if its just for personal marketing purposes (ie resume booster).

7/28/2009 7:02:05 PM

computer.

7/28/2009 7:37:27 PM

i wanna design traffic systems

7/28/2009 7:49:13 PM

Keep in mind that the Big Oil companies will hire you with a EE or ME degree and train you to be a Petroleum Engineer (and give you the paygrade to go along with it).

If my job was exclusively developing software, in the long term I would be a lot more concerned with my job being outsourced.

Within Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical you can pursue a job in an industry where you have to be licensed as a P.E. to do work and therefore your job cannot be outsourced.

7/31/2009 6:39:05 PM

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"LOL, only if you get a chinese language minor to go along with it. I'd say computer engineering hands down. It currently has the highest earning potential of the three listed and there is a super wide range of things you can do from programming, to hardware design, to networking. Hell, you can even work with the civil engineers and design traffic systems. You should definitely get the double in EE while you're at it; even if its just for personal marketing purposes (ie resume booster)."

Every major municipality has an electrical engineer, all power plants, larger power companies have them everywhere, contractors for all of the above... Instruments, sensors, automotive, data, controls, automation, biological, medical, telecom...

If there's information or power involved, there's probably an EE somewhere associated with it.

7/31/2009 6:50:22 PM