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Permalink Reply by Charles Duffield on August 9, 2010 at 7:33am

I'm in my last year of mechanical engineering with background in materials. It gets me into the fields that have interested me since young childhood, so it was a lot of fun to learn (despite the dryness of some units). :)

The background in maths will let you breeze through the degree, so all you have to do is choose where you WANT to apply your knowledge. What do you want to achieve?

I've been absorbed by vehicle suspension design and dynamics since early highschool, so i've never had a problem deciding my direction.

The whole time i've been studying, my girlfriend has been working through a biomedical science/medical degree, so i was always tempted down the road of medical engineering. It interests me greatly, but i don't want to spend my entire life indulging my academic curiosity.

Permalink Reply by Alexandru on August 26, 2010 at 5:14am

I'm an electrical engineer by training, but at the moment I do research in computational electromagnetics, which places me in the awkward meeting place of high-performance computing, numerical methods and theoretical electromagnetism. I hugely enjoy it, although there are a couple of other fields I want to explore (analog ICs and signal processing being just two of them); I'm yet to decide what I'll be following for my Masters degree.

I ended up doing this by accident, although I love every minute of it. My dream was, in fact, to become an astronomer, but you can't get a degree in Astronomy in my country so I eventually settled for my other hobby that was slightly too serious to be just a hobby.

Permalink Reply by Josh Clark on December 24, 2010 at 6:19pm

I'm still in high school, but I plan to study computer engineering, concentrating in network systems and network security.

Permalink Reply by John Thomas on December 25, 2010 at 12:17pm

Hi Mark,

 

I have dual specializations, I am an electrical engineer and fire protection engineer. Working on getting licensed in 2011 to go for the PE. A must in my industry. My electrical background is in controls and drives, and I have grad certificate in fire protection engineering. I design fire alarm systems, suppression systems, and once and while my specialties converge and I do some safety critical controls.

Permalink Reply by Dross on December 27, 2010 at 12:26pm

Computer engineer here. In my experience, it's a great blend of comp sci and electrical engineering.  My jobs have allowed me lots of programming experience and I'm currently a software engineer, but I'm grateful I also got a taste of circuits and electronics during my EE courses, and l look forward to one day putting it to use with DIY audio.

Permalink Reply by RK on January 30, 2011 at 2:21am

Graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from UIUC and now do absolutely nothing at all related to it. :)

 

I still look upon vacant plots of land and imagine what could be done with it and drive around subdivisions wondering how the CE came up with the rough design for the layout...

Permalink Reply by Sean Grogan on January 30, 2011 at 5:55pm

Mining Engineering at McGill University in Montreal, QC.  I am currently on Internship with Syncrude in Ft. McMurray, AB.  Not 100% sure i'll stick with mining, might switch to civil, but we'll see.

Permalink Reply by Forrest Joel Grissom on March 4, 2011 at 12:30am

I am about to finish my BS in aerospace engineering.  I'm hoping to work in missile defense since NASA isn't doing much hiring.  I would like to eventually get my master's in systems engineering.

Permalink Reply by Iosephus Lvcs Gonzalez on September 15, 2011 at 3:41am

Chemical Engineer, torn between pursuing a career in either energy efficiency or nanotech. See what the future brings.