**The Official Engineers/Engineering Thread V2**

[axiom15]

3 weeks, done nothing pay hasn't changed but some people are gone. Grin and bear it, newbies. Even my bosses bosses are saying oil is donesky

Damn, where you located at?
Got one more semester til I get my BS in mechanical engineering, was planning on going to oilfield fuu

[Kurnuk]

wassup[ my engineers. been a year since i posted on here. whose fukcing ready for the semester to start! **** i cant wait. srs

You can go attend my semester too . Half of my teachers are ****in awful. I'd rather stay home, watch a ten minute tube clip explaining the essentials, instead of sitting close to two hours in a class where the teacher doesn't do much else than read twenty powerpoint slides word to word. As they say, Finnish schooling system is definitely one of the best.

[cncman]

Damn, where you located at?
Got one more semester til I get my BS in mechanical engineering, was planning on going to oilfield fuu

good degree, just take a field engineer job and milk that 75k for all its worth. I am finally going back out on jobs again though. I'm now in Victoria, Tx (absolute ****hole full of convict righands of peace)

[M0hi]

wassup[ my engineers. been a year since i posted on here. whose fukcing ready for the semester to start! **** i cant wait. srs

I have already taken a lot of engineering courses, but before I get into the purely engineering classes only part of my curriculum my last obstacle is physics 2. The worst class in the entire engineering curriculum at my school because of the combo of tough material + horrible faculty. I magically managed a B in physics 1 and learned so much about the world, but I still don't feel like I actually understand physics as much as I'd like.
So no, I would appreciate if next semester just never started. I am all for taking challenges head-on but I am heading into a losing battle. Other than that the rest of my classes should be fun.
Diff EQ is easy at my school
I am taking a hard 400 level bio class on animal behavior that apparently is really hard unless you love the subject, but I have a huge interest in animals.
Physics 2
really easy bioengineering class

I also slacked off really bad and should have gotten myself into another lab for undergrad research so I am gonna try and clutch and get into a lab hopefully within 2 weeks and have the paperwork turned in for research to count as elective credits.


Also there's two internships I am applying to
1. in Seattle at Univ of Washington, 10 weeks, free housing, 5k stipend. Would kill to do all that traveling because I have never been west of Omaha Nebraska. Would go see bruce lee monument, mt st helen, pacific ocean charter, sturgeon fishing oregon/washington border. Would love it.
2. At a university in NYC, 10 weeks, 4k stipend. NYC would be cool to experience for 10 weeks and getting to actually live in NYC. But I'd prefer washington, if it didn't happen through this internship I may never get the chance to visit there again. But then again Washington is a 30hr drive lol.

[Plyoz]

Trying to avoid the oilfield at all costs.

I'm also taking Physics 2 which is our worst class and I'm not too excited. But Physics 1 was pretty much a blowoff A for me so I'm not too worried about Statics this semester.

[McLarenGTR]

extremely glad i'm done with physics 2. awful class and lab. brb not one person knew how to do the labs, including the TA. only thing i remember is V=IR. was my only B the semester too, somehow got a B+ in it (Ty curve)

[boutTreefiddy]

not excited for this semester. fukkkkkk time to study harder than ever. good luck brahs.

thermo
solids
civil engineering systems
soil science
english (eng. communication)

[kneedragger519]

Decided to get an early start on this semester before classes officially start next week. Spent a few hours in the library today working on mechanics stuff.... going to be a rough semester

I'm going to try and be at least a chapter ahead in both mechanics and thermo this semester. I fear if I fall behind at all in these classes I will be ****ed. The fear is real.

Good luck this semester, everyone.

[auroturtle]

Do you guys have any tips for career fairs?

Elevator speech or nah?

Importance of making an impression? Or do they just pile all the resumes together?

I'm planning on not wearing a suit, just dress pants, shoes, shirt and tie... i hear it makes you stand out a little more from everyone wearing a suit (and I don't own one).

Tips??? hehe ty men

and this is for an internship/coop as a 2nd year

[TXDStone]

3 weeks, done nothing pay hasn't changed but some people are gone. Grin and bear it, newbies. Even my bosses bosses are saying oil is donesky

Oh lawd

[BenGetReal]

Fuuu brahs, im in the middle of a process engineering degree. Will I even get a job if the oil industry collapses?

[cncman]

Oh lawd

I'm back to 4 on 3 off so that's ok. Really slow though, lots of engineers aren't out on jobs. Too much standing around the shop or doing online trainings

Fuuu brahs, im in the middle of a process engineering degree. Will I even get a job if the oil industry collapses?

semiconductors

[Gt3x24x7]

Greetings and salutations my brethren-in-knowledge and paper

I sensed the radio waves and microwaves that you brahs broadcasted towards me

Alas the nuclear brah is in here

[TXDStone]

I'm back to 4 on 3 off so that's ok. Really slow though, lots of engineers aren't out on jobs. Too much standing around the shop or doing online trainings

semiconductors

That sounds like a pretty good rotation, I usually work a 10-4 which kind of sucks since I spend 7 hours driving one way to get back to Austin or wherever. What area are you working in right now both geographically and type of engineering?

I'm sure y'all will weather the storm better than us, we are canceling a decent amount of future AFE work, fracks, and are starting to leave the lower producing wells offline if they go down and aren't holding a lease or something.

[cncman]

That sounds like a pretty good rotation, I usually work a 10-4 which kind of sucks since I spend 7 hours driving one way to get back to Austin or wherever. What area are you working in right now both geographically and type of engineering?

I'm sure y'all will weather the storm better than us, we are canceling a decent amount of future AFE work, fracks, and are starting to leave the lower producing wells offline if they go down and aren't holding a lease or something.

Wireline, Houston area. I moved to BH and I'm an FE. Just sit in a truck. H&P is shutting OPS down in West Texas, and everyone was told the Permian would be unaffected. I got a buddy in completions over there and he's slow too. My contacts in Tyler are doing alright supposedly at EOG. Eagle Ford is slow AF overall. Normally the office is quiet, everyone was there today but 2 trucks go out in the morning, one of which I prepared with some operators because the spool wasn't braking properly.

Edit: BH/HAL let 50 go the other day in colorado, all new FE's and administration.

[cncman]

Word on the street is NOV and Weatherford are now considering merging, and GE is looking to buyout someone. It'll get interesting once SLB says fuk it, we'll buy everyone and create an anti trust war.

[GhostCat]

Wireline, Houston area. I moved to BH and I'm an FE. Just sit in a truck. H&P is shutting OPS down in West Texas, and everyone was told the Permian would be unaffected. I got a buddy in completions over there and he's slow too. My contacts in Tyler are doing alright supposedly at EOG. Eagle Ford is slow AF overall. Normally the office is quiet, everyone was there today but 2 trucks go out in the morning, one of which I prepared with some operators because the spool wasn't braking properly.

Edit: BH/HAL let 50 go the other day in colorado, all new FE's and administration.

interesting, how is completions this slow if the rig number are still pretty? Canadas rig numbers went up this month also by 100.

[auroturtle]

any tips for career fairs and landing an internship/co-op as a sophomore?

[auroturtle]

also, u mirin this post #?

[cncman]

interesting, how is completions this slow if the rig number are still pretty? Canadas rig numbers went up this month also by 100.

US rig count steadily dropping, and doing so-so in Canada. E&P closed up operations in west texas today at several rigsites. Completions is slow because the tools aren't being used much. All I did today was calibrate tools.

[TXDStone]

US rig count steadily dropping, and doing so-so in Canada. E&P closed up operations in west texas today at several rigsites. Completions is slow because the tools aren't being used much. All I did today was calibrate tools.

It was announced today we are dropping down to one rig which will be in west texas, we had five going a few months ago across multiple fields (we are small).

[aaronstamp]

Anyone have any Certs?

I was looking into the certs at UCLA which offer six sigma, the one for medical device. Like 6k for 2 years all said and done after 2 years of work post-BS minimum, is it worth it? Any experience?

[KeepinOn2]

any tips for career fairs and landing an internship/co-op as a sophomore?

Be black, hispanic, or a woman. Guaranteed to get a job (srs)
Otherwise it is really hard to get an internship/co-op as a sophomore.
Most engineering programs don't start with specialization until junior year and you've probable only done the basic pre-reqs like physics and calc.

Have a killer resume (If you need help feel free to pm me it and I will give you pointers).
Most importantly, know what you want to do for the company and be passionate. (Speak with enthusiasm and smile)

[cncman]

It was announced today we are dropping down to one rig which will be in west texas, we had five going a few months ago across multiple fields (we are small).

There are a LOT of places down to 1-2 rigs. Hal starts another layoff in Houston next week. Brace yourself...Permian basin unaffected my angus. Natty gas is low too.

[cncman]

[GhostCat]

lmao, wireline crew always was a lot of odd balls.

so can someone please tell me where to go in this country to find work. Oil was the last place where you could walk in apply and have work. Online ****s pointless as **** it seems.

[TMaC828]

Any Aerospace Eng majors/graduates in here? Yes I realize I could search, but I don't know who's active and who isn't.

Still semi-undecided regarding major. Freshmen at a JUCO, just got out of the Air Force. And if anything appears to grasp my interest, it's definitely Aerospace.

If so... any advice you wish someone gave you early on, or advice in general?

[GhostCat]

Any Aerospace Eng majors/graduates in here? Yes I realize I could search, but I don't know who's active and who isn't.

Still semi-undecided regarding major. Freshmen at a JUCO, just got out of the Air Force. And if anything appears to grasp my interest, it's definitely Aerospace.

If so... any advice you wish someone gave you early on, or advice in general?

word is just major in mechanical. keeps your options open, both majors are pretty much the same really for the most part but HR wont know that. plus you already got airforce on resume so that would help get in industry.

[TMaC828]

word is just major in mechanical. keeps your options open, both majors are pretty much the same really for the most part but HR wont know that. plus you already got airforce on resume so that would help get in industry.

Thanks man.

I'm declared as Mechanical as of now...

And yeah I was an MP in the Air Force nothing technical and my security clearance will have expired by the time I graduate.

[TXDStone]

Brb becoming lease operator