If you really need a job, relocate to the southeast, mainly Houston. Oil and gas companies are staffing up for upstream work. Downstream work is dead right now. The money as of right now is pulling the stuff out of the ground and not in refining it. The demand isn't there for there to be good...
I bumped into a welling drilling electrician on an airplane flight and got talking with him about the industry. Asking them about how deep they drill, how much the guys get paid, the different positions and such. Well, towards the end of the flight he asks me about a problem he is having with...
Make sure you get paid while it is hot. Piping CADers will be above $60 an hour. Designers will be above $40 an hour easy. PE's that don't know anything will be around $45 dollars an hour and are brought on just to justify billing a client. Same thing is done with fresh grads. PE's that know...
I was recently offered a salary for the exact job that I am interested in with a company that is very well known in the industry. They are employee owned and offer company ownership in lue of 401k. This isn't bad deal if you don't mind putting your eggs in one basket and basically being tied...
It is a crying shame how we let all of our major manufacturing leave. People always talk about this being the information age and that is where all the good jobs are going to be but there is a large base that has neither the interest or education to benefit from an economy that marginalizes...
I don't buy this study. The bottom engineering quarter is making less than what other agencies quote as average starting salaries.
I am guessing they took these salaries from a study that companies benefit from using for their H1B visa numbers. Companies are required to pay prevailing wage...
Just an update. The day after this post, my significant other got me a full body message. Shooting spree averted. The company that I was hoping to get in with is letting me borrow a $4,000 piece of equipment from them for 3 months to run test patterns on something I purchased dirt cheap off of...
I like problem solving and learning about new things. The interest isn't imaginary. I have attended a load of conferences, have a bunch of books that I have gone through, picked up a 30 i/o plc to give me some experience with plc controls, and taken 20+ credits in grad courses. I had a mediocre...
No, I don't believe they are as common as Kenat believes. I know a lot of people who make as much or more than engineers with less stress, liability, hours, and more security. Maybe, this is comparing apples to oranges but I don't think that it should be like this. I like engineering and I...
I just want to give my two cents about the state of the profession.
1. I believe for the most part it is an incredible amount of work for how much money it pays. Many organization expect too much free overtime in name of professionalism and too many meek engineers just give it. Stop it. A god...
I don't know if any group should be encouraged to go into engineering but I do feel the work environment in many industries is heavily biased towards straight white males. I have worked places were interns and junior engineers who weren't this were basically chased off or marginalized.
I don't know. For me, I just kind of wonder when I see this for a summer internship.
REQUIRED ACADEMIC SKILLS: MBA or other advanced degree required. Analytical undergraduate majors in engineering, math, economics, and statistics preferred
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I have taken courses through Michigan Tech and University of Idaho's outreach programs. The courses at Idaho are well organized but their isn't close to as much class discussion (student emails) as in the ones I am taking at Michigan Tech. There are a lot of students at Mich Tech that have been...
I am going to grad school full time (no job) to get my masters after having graduated a number of years back. I applied recently for an internship that a company was advertising in the hope that the reason they were looking for an intern was because they had problems finding someone with...
Am I the only one that thinks the profession pays poorly for the amount of instability you have to deal with? I attend conferences, spend a considerable amount of time outside of work taking course and reading industry literature. I love engineering and the autonomy you can have but it isn't...
My problem just turned out to be that the administrator hadn't given us full rights to the Intergraph program directory. I suspect yours might be the same.
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I am having problems creating a multi-tag specification form. I have set it up so that there are master and slave specifications and so that the non-common fields can be unique. The first page is the standard form, the second page is notes, and the third page is the multi tag list with...
