Engineers
 

Any enginerds on this board? any field.

Kind of...

well.....we're waiting

My degree is in civil engineering but I went in another direction for work.

cool. wasent interested in civil after all or just got offered a job too good to pass up?

ex-aerospace. Now startups.

Rolla.

What do engineers use for birth control?



Their personalities

Teh Innurwebz are fun

What year? I have the same pedigree.

Degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Use Civil3d and work with civils daily...

Thinking about going back to school part time for it so I can get my PE.

What did you change to?

Where did you get your degree?

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cool. that'd be legit. you're like 3 years pt away? do it

embedded software

Whoo whoo!

Chugga chugga chugga chugga...

What?

An engineer with a great sense of humor?

You are a rare duck, my friend.

Yeah...trying to get work to pay for it. Don't know where I would go...or if there is a good online program.

I will be paying my graduate loans for a while and the wife would kill me if I took out another loan for a 3rd degree.

And why are you inquiring?

Just wanting to know who is an engineer? Are you in the field...? Looking to get into it?

Yea just curious to see who on here are engineers. I quit my job acouple months ago, took out a student loan and am back in school for an enginerd degree. was always interested in science and never was bad at math. hated my bullshit finance job /didn't feel like it was taking me anywhere so said **** it and pulled the trigger before it was too late

Where are you going to school?

ku

Electrical & computer. Is there a question?

I don't know anything about KU's engineering program but good for you realizing that the change of course you took will benefit you in the long run. Excel at doing the work and you won't have to worry about long term employment. You'll be set for life.

Yeah that's one of the reasons for pulling the trigger. solid employment. you getting rich from fracking up there in the dakotas?

Mining engineer here. Not many of us around, and there is a huge labor shortage on the horizon. I'm 33 and there are hardly any mining engineers between myself and the 55+ crowd. Pay is usually petroleum engineers, but ahead of most other kinds. Not many schools have a program, but if you're a Missouri person then there's a good program at UMR.

I'm thinking about doing pe....love geology. what you mining out in co? I was just out there and my buddy pointed out the mine right off i70 just past Floyd hill he said it was a muscovite mine...?amazing they can profit from mining a mineral like muscovite right there if that's true

LOL, no but when I retire from my current gig and it's still going on up there I'll figure out a way to get there and open a diner for the workers except that's a long way out.

My son is a CE major at a great engineering school in Rapid City though. Unlimited possibilities.

awesome

smart kid for choosing engineering straight outta high school

Good luck to you my friend. Hard work ahead but knock it out.

That one's actually just a rock quarry, but mining nonetheless. There's not a lot of mining going on in CO these days compared to what it used to be. There are a lot of mining companies based here though. The company I work for is a private equity exploration company. We have projects around the world which is exciting and makes it a great place to work.

Instead of dating, I watched old episodes of Abbott and Costello.

Class of 1986.

sounds awesome...is there a specific thing your company mines for or how does that work?

Not an engineer, but a Bio Major who takes a shit ton of Physics and electronics classes.... and I must say they are some of the few classes I've paid for in my life that I feel held some value.

School of Mines in both South Dakota Colorado are excellent if you're serious about a mining degree.

Not engineering, per se, but my company considers us to be quality engineers. (Nondestructive Inspection)

Systems engineer, bs in cs and mba in supply chain management

Mechanical Engineer

Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, retired.
Tough but great challenges.

nice. what do you do

This except for computer engineering.

I design drilling motors. The job is ok, but the location (Houston) is not. Happily, I only have 2 weeks left.

Curious: did you do Rolla? Before my junior year, I transferred to Oklahoma and got a degree in meteorology (my first love) instead, but I'm 33 as well and did UMR August '98 - May '00.

what's wrong with h town?

are you staying in the o&g industry?

You can't put a price tag on piece of mind. The summers are brutal, anything outside that doesn't rust rots, traffic and to many people.

The interesting thing about the mining industry is that there are companies whose soul purpose is to find deposits and develop them to a point where a bigger company buys it and builds a mine. These companies are called junior mining companies, the buyers are called majors. My company is a junior and have no real intent to ever mine anything. We just find the deposits that will become mines. In terms of what we look for, it is mostly gold, silver and copper deposits that we look for.

Missouri State Control Systems Engineer

This. Some people like it here, but I am not one of them.

Nope, construction equipment.

I know you. You're the guy who leads the donkey out of the mountains and yells, "There's gold in them thar hills!"

I would rep you for the great answer but i'm on my phone and it doesn't let me. Sounds awesome though

Graduating with my BSME on Friday, but headed towards project management instead of design engineering.

Nah, I went to Colorado School of Mines for my degree. I would have been a year behind you anyway. A good friend of mine went to OU for a masters in geophysics after CSM.

Yeah, we've talked about engineering before. Our offices are pretty close to yours downtown.

Cool... You mentioned Rolla, so thought I'd check. CSM's pretty hefty as well (probably more so) from what I understand.

No worries, just look it up and consider it. Of course, I'll tell you to check out my alma mater Colorado School of Mines. It's worth a look, especially if you like geology.

Maybe even closer. Aren't you on the east end of the mall? We moved down that way.

I'm pretty partial to CSM, of course, but UMR is a good school. I figured the OP was in MO (this being a Chiefs board) and may be more inclined to go to school in state. Your education only really helps you get the first job. Where you go from there is up to you.

Yeah, we just moved across the street last November. We're at Lincoln and 17th.

I'd love to go to mines but im already more than half way done at ku

Well shit, I'm too late! Best of luck, and keep up the good work. This country needs more engineers.

To the optimist the glass is half-full.
To the pessimist the glass is half-empty.
To the engineer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

I start school in the fall to get an associates in marine engineering.

My title at my last job was Tech Rep/Engineer.

<---- Structural Engineer

Good luck on the studies.

Go towards sustainability. I am a mechanical with a PE working as an energy conservation consultant. We are constantly hiring young engineers for our group. The demand for this field is exloding and will continue to for a long time due to increasing regulations. I am finally in the right place at the right time. It took three decades.

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Heh, I work with a bunch of them and a buddy of mine that works at one of the refineries I deal with has this on his door. :)
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Open the rep box in a new window.

To me and I could be wrong, but you aren't truly an engineer until you have a degree from an acredited school AND have a PE. (depends on discipline)

My job title has engineer in it, but I am not truly am engineer.

What's your job title?

It's kind of like software engineer, where you are not that kind of engineer.

Yeah, I've spent most of my career labeled as a "network engineer" or "communications engineer". Currently, I am an "enterprise architect" (which is actually governed by standards such as TOGAF) but I'm neither an architect nor engineer in the traditional sense of those words.

I'm an electrical engineer.

My oldest son is going to school for Chemical Engineering. That looks pretty interesting.

I loved civil engineering, especially the structural aspect. I didn't have any work experience and got offered a network engineering job for the phone company. Couldn't pass it up.

Changed to network engineering (I guess that's what it's considered) and working for the phone company. I got my degree from the University of Toledo.

nice. that's the thing i've also noticed about an engineering degree. you can apply to pretty much any job cus employers know you're not a moron. maybe socially inept but they know they can teach you fast ha

sweet. what do you do?

I got my BS in mechanical engineering, but I didn't like the internship I had as a design engineer. I went into business/tech integration consulting instead.

Does software engineering count?

I design environmental controls (temperature, humidity, CO2, etc) for large storage buildings. I also design refrigeration controllers. I am the main design engineer for the company I work for and do everything from designing the circuit boards on up. Most of my job, though, is programming the micros that run the boards.

Very nice. I have mostly supervised aero engineers and currently sit on the board of a small engineering firm. I however do not have an engineering degree. It is the exceptional engineer that desires to lead people.

I'd say yes