**The Official Engineers/Engineering Thread V2**

[TXDStone]

Recruiters calling this late, all I can think is why didn't you recruit me in the Fall?

[CycloneDude]

Recruiters calling this late, all I can think is why didn't you recruit me in the Fall?

Typically when they call this late it is because their first and 2nd choices received offers and then declined them. I help with recruiting at my university and this is normally the case. They just need to fill it now.

[CycloneDude]

$16/hr, 8 hour work day. No state income tax and I get to live for free with my parents, so I get to pocket a good amount of that money

Internships pay that low? Odd, I normally see around the 23-28 range.

[Rayaarito]

Guys i need serious advice. I'm quitting my job and going to school full time for electrical engineering, i'm technically a transfer student. I can either take 18 credits a semester and finish in 3 years or 15 credits a semester and finish in 4 years. My orientation is in 2-3 weeks so I'm trying to figure out my schedule so I can just walk in and out.

How killer is 18 credits a semester? have any of you done it? if so, what gpa did you pull that semester? How was your social life?

Thanks guys

[SouthDakotaBrah]

Internships pay that low? Odd, I normally see around the 23-28 range.

Jesus christ, what internships are you talking about that pay $28 an hour? Both offers I received were $16/hr, and everybody I know who has internships is also making $16/hr, with a couple making $18-20/hr (juniors). I want to say internships in the midwest generally pay lower due to cost of living and whatnot (plus no state income tax here) but from the sounds of it, you are also in the midwest (if I'm correct in assuming your name refers to Iowa State?)

$28/hr is like $55k per year, that would be insane as a college student

[CycloneDude]

Jesus christ, what internships are you talking about that pay $28 an hour? Both offers I received were $16/hr, and everybody I know who has internships is also making $16/hr, with a couple making $18-20/hr (juniors). I want to say internships in the midwest generally pay lower due to cost of living and whatnot (plus no state income tax here) but from the sounds of it, you are also in the midwest (if I'm correct in assuming your name refers to Iowa State?)

$28/hr is like $55k per year, that would be insane as a college student

Yep, go cyclones. I'm in the midwest. I work in Chicagoland area now. The company i work with pays 26/hr for interns. I believe a few of my friend's got internships in the low 20's range as well. I remember when my friend told her parents how much she made and they were pretty pissed that she made more than them right off the bat, and only an internship on top of that. I just realized you're an EE. It could be that Chem E's are high in demand right now so people are paying top dollar for them.

[Freek314]

Any current engineers have comments for an Electrical/Instrumentation/Control Tech with an associates degree and experience in motor control (VFDs included)/NEC/advanced PLC programming/Digital and analog calibration of sensors/instrumentation controllers/valve control?

[educated_Derelict]

Jesus christ, what internships are you talking about that pay $28 an hour? Both offers I received were $16/hr, and everybody I know who has internships is also making $16/hr, with a couple making $18-20/hr (juniors). I want to say internships in the midwest generally pay lower due to cost of living and whatnot (plus no state income tax here) but from the sounds of it, you are also in the midwest (if I'm correct in assuming your name refers to Iowa State?)

$28/hr is like $55k per year, that would be insane as a college student

not in anyway a brag or a fraud, but I have a west coast internship that pays $22.5/hr, most are around $20 / hr.

and meanwhile at google, apple, and ********, interns make 7k a month. good game

[Rayaarito]

Guys i need serious advice. I'm quitting my job and going to school full time for electrical engineering, i'm technically a transfer student. I can either take 18 credits a semester and finish in 3 years or 15 credits a semester and finish in 4 years. My orientation is in 2-3 weeks so I'm trying to figure out my schedule so I can just walk in and out.

How killer is 18 credits a semester? have any of you done it? if so, what gpa did you pull that semester? How was your social life?

Thanks guys

Anyone?

[fcb1012]

Been full time now for 2 years but I did Co-op 2 semesters and first paid about $18 and second was $20+ as an EE.

[JitnikoVi]

Anyone?

my university requires engineers to have 6 courses per semester, this is mandatory for first year, if u take summer school you can take 4/5 per semester afterwards. that being said, engineers usually do have the lowest averages, and about 1/3 of them either drop out or transfer by second year. you cannot fail any courses or u will not be eligble for several 2nd year classes. we have grading on a 0-12 scale where 0 is fail and 12 is 90+, must maintain an average of 4 (C) in your first year to continue

in top 5 canada uni
(also not in engineering)

[Rayaarito]

Been full time now for 2 years but I did Co-op 2 semesters and first paid about $18 and second was $20+ as an EE.

Full time meaning 18 credits? How was your GPA for that? Over here, full time means anything 12 credits and above

my university requires engineers to have 6 courses per semester, this is mandatory for first year, if u take summer school you can take 4/5 per semester afterwards.

im in top 5 canada uni
(also not in engineering)

Interesting....so i'm not crazy for thinking it then. Had some people tell me I'm nuts if I think I can handle that many science and math courses in a semester

[dweeegs]

Guys i need serious advice. I'm quitting my job and going to school full time for electrical engineering, i'm technically a transfer student. I can either take 18 credits a semester and finish in 3 years or 15 credits a semester and finish in 4 years. My orientation is in 2-3 weeks so I'm trying to figure out my schedule so I can just walk in and out.

How killer is 18 credits a semester? have any of you done it? if so, what gpa did you pull that semester? How was your social life?

Thanks guys

Depends on how tough it is, can't really tell. I took a ton of hard electives for a nanoscience minor and there's no way in hell I could handle 18 credits my senior year. I did 17 twice I think, that was freshman/sophomore year and it wasn't bad because the classes required less work and there were a lot of CORE's sprinkled in there.

If you have the drive then go for it and save the cash from a 4th year

[SouthDakotaBrah]

Been full time now for 2 years but I did Co-op 2 semesters and first paid about $18 and second was $20+ as an EE.

This is typically what I hear, I think the company I'm at now said $18-$20 is what I'd be paid if I interned a second summer

[fcb1012]

Full time meaning 18 credits? How was your GPA for that? Over here, full time means anything 12 credits and above

Sorry bro, meant full time as in job. Graduated 2 years ago, and those numbers I posted was what I made as a co-op for 2 semesters. I did take 18 credits my last semester, and was married, and I'm not exaggerating when I say for most of that semester I only saw my wife on Friday/Saturdays because I got home at crazy hours, 1-2am from school then stay up studying till 6am or so, go to bed and head back to school for first class about 12. I averaged about 5-5.5 hours of sleep a night that whole semester. If I ever got 7 or more that felt great even on the weekends. I was taking my senior design class in those 18 and that took much more than a typical class. I did learn time management that semester though. So, I would say you could do 18 credits depending on the type of coursework. My 18 credits were all engineering except one course, an elective. But I think no matter the course work 18 credits will leave you with hardly any social time.

[The Experiment]

$16 an hour in South Dakota is the equivalent to mid 20s in Chicagoland. In some places like the Bay Area, you'd need to make about double to have a COL equivalent. If you want to work in an area with cheap cost of living, you're probably going to be making less money.

[fcb1012]

Yep and I'm completely unsuccessful so far

Had a phone interview with a software company today, the guy kept saying "so you don't have any internship experience". Like I know man don't rub it in

Will say, and I usually tell all students, to intern/co-op if at all possible...make it happen at least once. When I was in school, I attended our career fair and 11 of the 12 companies I met with, their first question was asking if I've co-op'ed before. Not my gpa or what classes I've taken. Now that I've been working full time for 2 years now, we have hired a hand full of people since me and every one had co-op'ed during school.

[dweeegs]

Will say, and I usually tell all students, to intern/co-op if at all possible...make it happen at least once. When I was in school, I attended our career fair and 11 of the 12 companies I met with, their first question was asking if I've co-op'ed before. Not my gpa or what classes I've taken. Now that I've been working full time for 2 years now, we have hired a hand full of people since me and every one had co-op'ed during school.

I tried man. My GPA was poop my first two years and I didn't have any connections.

I interned at the FDA but everything I have is academia not industry, which is a problem.

[Rayaarito]

But I think no matter the course work 18 credits will leave you with hardly any social time.

Maybe...i should take only 15 then. I'm going to need some relaxing time when i get stressed out with the work load. But then that means i need more money for school. Such a controversy...

[CycloneDude]

$16 an hour in South Dakota is the equivalent to mid 20s in Chicagoland. In some places like the Bay Area, you'd need to make about double to have a COL equivalent. If you want to work in an area with cheap cost of living, you're probably going to be making less money.

My friends make $20's an hour in iowa as well. It really depends on the company.

[RussBuss]

Anyone ever done work as a subsea engineer or worked on an oil rig?

Started my internship with Shell on Wednesday, I'm in the subsea open water installations group. Going to go offshore at some point this summer. Anyone have general advice for an intern who wants to get a full time offer at end of the summer, and also anyone who has specific experience in the oil and gas field - where is the best place for me to educate myself on everything? I feel like as a Mechanical most of the stuff I have studied really doesn't apply to what I am going to be working on.

[Freek314]

Any current engineers have comments for an Electrical/Instrumentation/Control Tech with an associates degree and experience in motor control (VFDs included)/NEC/advanced PLC programming/Digital and analog calibration of sensors/instrumentation controllers/valve control?

Anyone?

[BTC1556]

Do you have what it takes??

[CycloneDude]

Do you have what it takes??

So anyone smart enough to just use google to find it, or know that it's probably their phone number :P

[TugOfPeace]

Do you have what it takes??

if you're in a respectable engineering program this problem isn't difficult at all

[Love-Feet]

if you're in a respectable engineering program this problem isn't difficult at all

Any engineer whose been working for a couple of years could never do that

[BTC1556]

Any engineer whose been working for a couple of years could never do that

Whaaaaat? You're telling me you don't use double-integrals everyday on the job?

[CycloneDude]

if you're in a respectable engineering program this problem isn't difficult at all

Well, there is multiple ways of doing this :

1. Do it the nitty gritty way
2. Grab a calc table book and go through all of them
3. Ti89 calculator it
4. Google it
5. Think of the most logical answer it would be

Honestly, if you were in a respectable engineering program I'd expect you not to do it. Engineering is about being efficient.

[dweeegs]

Well, there is multiple ways of doing this :

1. Do it the nitty gritty way
2. Grab a calc table book and go through all of them
3. Ti89 calculator it
4. Google it
5. Think of the most logical answer it would be

Honestly, if you were in a respectable engineering program I'd expect you not to do it. Engineering is about being efficient.

[CycloneDude]

Never used it. After college the only things available is excel and Aspen haha.