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[nitewulf]

as a design engineer for con edison. no, dont send complaints about your electricity bills to me, thats another department.
anyway, i'd advice the 3rd year engineering students to SLOW DOWN and get internships instead of trying to graduate too fast. get yourself some summer internships, they will help you out much more than you can imagine. dont just take courses like a dumbass in order to graduate...SLOW DOWN.
if you are thinking about an engineering career, and live in a big city...dont go for electrical, go for structural/civil, that is if you like your city life and wanna stick around. jobs in this field are plentiful in cities. electrical is tough/abstract and should be done out of passion, not to make money, IMO, electrical jobs are mostly in middle of nowhere defense firms, or microprocessor labs...or utility/service areas like power and transportation (con edison, MTA etc). so if you want money go for civil...and if you wanna be cutting edge, go for bio-medical engineering.
ok, next up...so i wont be around here as much anymore. which kinda sucks, as e3 is coming up and xenon and ps3 are exciting. people who wanted to chat on MSN...i'll install it pretty soon so i'll give you guys a heads up when thats done.
lastly, i remember all the frustrated posts by newly grads throughout last year. ok, here is the thing...do not give up. send out millions of resumes, hit as many career fairs as you can. keep it up. you can't give up.
giving up = die
get a part time job at a coffee shop to pay your bills, hit the net on your free time, submit resume.
if an interview hits, talk sharp. dont lie, be confident. be true. dont hesitate, take a moment to think about your answer, and answer. if you can get a job in your field, but it pays shit...take it. hell tell your boss that you dont want money, as long as you get a good reference and learn some stuff. very important.

 

[themadcowtipper]

Boring thread tittle and a long thread,I advice you to try again to get more replies.

 

[Fragamemnon]

Internships with decent firms are gold. As long as you're not a total f-up at the company, it is an assured job when you graduate, and if you don't want to work for that company when you graduate, you're still better off than "Summer 2005: played CS:Source and hit the bong thrice daily" or what not.

 

[MoxManiac]

You don't get paid for Internships though, do you? I could never do that.

Not that it matters. I haven't even started school yet. Haha.

 

[rastex]

I don't get it, why won't you be around as much?

With work you'll probably have more time than ever to post on GAF. Is this your first job out of University?

edit: To Mox. A lot of American internships are unpaid, but Canadian co-op jobs, even ones with American companies are all paid. It rocks getting to graduate without any debt.

 

[Bobety]

so...i got a new job...

Hey me too! High-five!

 

[firebricks3]

Are you saying that if you are into Electrical Engineering, you should be expected to move around the country alot? I'm a sophomore EE student and I don't entirely understand what those statements meant. (And your completely right about the whole internship thing)

 

[MoxManiac]

That seems like a better deal. I understand internships are a great way to get experience and a foot in the door in your chosen field, but I have a hard enough time giving up time when I get paid for it, let alone interning, heh. I guess I just don't have enough ambition.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

You don't get paid for Internships though, do you? I could never do that.

Not that it matters. I haven't even started school yet. Haha.

Depends on the internship. Some pay. I have an internship at NIH this summer that pays me $1,800 a month.

Any advice for biomedical engineers?

 

[galeninjapan]

I like paragraphs and indentions.

 

[nitewulf]

Are you saying that if you are into Electrical Engineering, you should be expected to move around the country alot? I'm a sophomore EE student and I don't entirely understand what those statements meant. (And your completely right about the whole internship thing)

yes...expect to move. EE jobs are mostly in rural areas. make sure you have basic elements ready like driver's licence and confidence. EE = gotta be tough AND a people's person at the same time.

I don't get it, why won't you be around as much?

With work you'll probably have more time than ever to post on GAF. Is this your first job out of University?

oh because they monitor the net at work, so i wont be able to browse from there...nor will i have the time due to projects. not my first job out of school, i was working for a local small electrical contracting firm studying/doing schematics and etc...this is a higher level job basically, with a huge company.

 

[nitewulf]

You don't get paid for Internships though, do you? I could never do that.

Not that it matters. I haven't even started school yet. Haha.

depends on the internship actually. but even so, it's actually quite tough to get a full time job in your field w/o internships. so even w/o pay i'd suggest it. later on you suffer a lot.

as for bio-medical...again, look for internships with pharmaceuticals, eventually they'll hire you right out. its a booming field. conglomeration of various engineering aspects. good stuff.

 

[dmann]

I'm graduating soon with an EE degree from GaTech. I'm kinda scared that I won't be able to find a job anytime once I graduate. I have little to no experience (no internships/co-op), and also will be graduating with a sub-par GPA. I know a lot of students at my school who are in the same boat as me.

I don't plan to put off my graduation just to secure an internship. I guess I'll just take my chances once I graduate.

 

[Maxwell House]

Most all internships nowadays are paid. Very few internships are of the non paid variety.

I graduated from Ga Tech too. I wouldn't worry about having too bad of a GPA from there. I know the average graduating GPA for engineers at Ga Tech is 2.75. It is a very tough school and employers realize that.

EE degress from Ga tech are very impressive. I don't see any reason you should have a problem finding a job.

 

[AntoneM]

waaa?!?! unpaid internships? I've never seen one, maybe I'm just looking in the right places.

 

[Chrono]

EE = gotta be tough AND a people's person at the same time.

Doesn't that apply everywhere in life? I mean being a people's person with confidence will help you in every field.

Congratulations btw.

 

[truffleshuffle83]

im in my senior year of electrical engineering right now focusing on emag. luckily the nations biggest air force base is in the city so EE jobs should be plentiful as they do alot of R&D here. many companies would pick up EE because it is the foundation for most technical engineering. a BME is essentially a EE with a few more science and ME classes

 

[nitewulf]

Doesn't that apply everywhere in life? I mean being a people's person with confidence will help you in every field.

Congratulations btw.

yes now that i'm looking at it, it is very general advice. yesterday was a long orientation day, filling up 100s of forms, listening to lectures about employment conduct all day...so i came home, took a hot shower, ate something and went straight for my bottle of bombay saphhire. so i guess i was taking a bit loosely. however, the main point i was trying to make is, its tough to get EE jobs in cities, take nyc for example. EE jobs are offered by power and transport companies. MTA, Con Edison, Keyspan etc, Verizon also hires EEs, but for IT jobs mostly. OTOH you have Motorolla, Nextel that hires EEs for RF engineering, but they are way out in jersey. commuting isnt possible.
but construction/civil is HUGE, looking at job postings you couldnt guess we are going through a crisis. so if you are a city boy, just going into college and wondering whats a financially lucrative major, then civil engineering is it. i was giving advice to a specific group of people i guess.
as for georgia tech, atlanta in general has EE jobs, and you have power companies in the south (alabama, florida) that hire lots of EEs so you are in a good area. just wasnt feasible for me to move to alabama all the way, i dont know anybody there.

 

[ghostface]

Hey congrats on your job. I know ALOT of newly graduated engineers who are having a horrible time finding jobs.

What can you say/recommend about mechanical engineering? I still have a little while to finish, but I'm still curious.