What engineering discipline are you in?

Thanks for starting this!

Mechanical Engineering degree but work as a instrumentation and controls engineer. I love the variety it offers.

 

My first degree was a BSME from UNH in 1985, followed by MSE, Cincinnati, Systems and Occupational Safety Engineering, IE, from the School of Mechanical, Industrial, Nuclear Engineering, and stuck around for the PhD, but never finished my research. But by then I was making MORE than all but the senior professors in my department.

Our program was started by an ex-NASA guy, a certain N. Armstrong, who might have flown once or twice, to the moon.

My work is as the ONLY Safety Engineer in a 10k plus person organization, and I do ALL the analysis on the layout of civilian industrial sites manufacturing military explosives, roughly 200 sites across the country, but mainly stick to the South East. I do have some "interesting" travel...

Needless to say, I do quite a bit of old school modeling.

Howard

 

Don't actually have an engineering degree but B.S Physics instead. But I've been classified as an engineer by my employer for over 30 years now, due to taking some additional classes and passing the state EIT exam.

Mostly work with embedded computers and software maintenance in the aviation world.

 

Civil Engineering with a focus in Water Resources Engineering. Do a lot of projects for FDOT

 

I was waiting for you to join in here, Walt.

 

Civil doing transmission line design, specializing in deep foundations for big ass steel monopoles and lattice towers.

 

Are you with LM? The EIT exam certainly qualifies you as a engineer...

Howard

 

Teach me, sir wise one.

 

Electrical Engineering, Currently working as a Naval Engineer in the Coast Guard (CWO). I started as an Electrician then worked my way up through the ranks to senior Chief then I was selected for Warrant.

 

We have several people here that are "engineers" without the degree. We have several business degrees that are working in Project Management, but we title them Engineers. Training on site is better than schooling in my opinion.

Physics is a great degree. I minored in it, and wish I'd have studied some more on the subject. My school was heavy into physics in general.

 

Started as a Mechanical Engineer/Thermodynamics, migrated through Combustion and Process Systems and have spent the last decade as a Controls Integration Engineer.
I mainly changed disciplines in order to not have to relocate, far better for the children that way. The Integration work provides me with a endless stream of puzzles that I truly enjoy.

 

Education - mechanical engineering

Primarily most of my career has been within the quality organization running studies to finalize process and product specifications as well as support filing submissions.

More recently I transitioned back to the R&D side of the business.

 

Graduated May 2014 with a B.S.M.E. and a B.A. in English.

I worked as a mechanical design engineer for a combined heat and power start-up full time before getting my current job. I still consult for that company part time.

I work full time as a mechanical design engineer designing automated packaging equipment. I take loose bottles/cans and bundle 'em up into nice packages real fast.

edit: fixed some of my grammar before "english major cant english lol"

 

ME here! Working doing govt contracting in design and finite element analysis.

My work primarily involves designing stuff and then proving it won't fail when a helicopter crashes. Sometimes I get a break and get to do some ground vehicle component design. It's nice being able to throw material at something and call it a day haha.

 

BSME, EIT Dec 2014
Currently working as a PM/Project Engineer. I turned down a few design jobs at the same time I took this one. I decided that I valued the variety and opportunity to be onsite at various civil works projects more than sitting in a cubicle(which is mostly what the ME dept at my employer does).

 

Which is what I do. At least I have a nice cubicle. It's got a big window and its pretty big and private.

I like listening to podcasts and building things in inventor all day. Not a bad way to make a living.

 

I've got an AAS in Mechanical Engineering Tech. It's kind of a Swiss army ME degree with a focus on manufacturing and machining.

Currently working as a Design/Project Engineer at a consulting firm doing HVAC and Plumbing design for commercial construction projects.

 

I suppose I am lucky because (in hindsight) a degree in physics really wasn't the best fit for me since I had no interest in going into research work. I did really well and loved the general (freshman/soph) level classes but struggled with a lot of the advanced theoretical stuff in the upper class years. I probably would have come out with a better GPA if I had chosen engineering from the start. Not because it is easier, but I do much better when I have a real tangible system or at least a good mental picture of the thing I am analyzing. Hard to do that with a lot of the concepts in quantum theory for example.

 

I never said anything was wrong with it. You are absolutely right that its not a bad way to make a living. I just decided it wasn't for me at this point. My knees are pretty jacked so I figured I would be up and walking around while I still can. haha

 

You didn't come across as saying that something was wrong with it, 'sitting in a cubicle all day' is just a loaded phrase and I wanted to add my positive experience with sitting in a cubicle all day to the thread. That said, now that I think about it, I'm down on the shop floor like 25% of the day usually...

I don't think I really qualify as sitting in a cubicle all day.