Thank you, that’s very nice to hear. I myself am rather frustrated with it: I started out with the intention of leaving with a Save The World pack, but nowadays I’m finishing the degree and finding that it’s more like a Now At Least You Have A Vague Idea Where To Begin pack...
Now you’re at the point where the career center tries to usher you into a job at megacorp or lure you into formal graduate school.
Depending on which region of the world you’re in, the term “Engineer” may have certain regulatory obligations, meaning that you may feel the (sometimes debatable) allure of attempting to work enough years (usually 3) under an accredited engineer to earn your own designation; at least, so it seems in some countries.
Yes, precisely, you wouldn’t believe how much pressure we’re getting in that direction. I’d really like to find a proper study on how advisable that is, the interests and pressures involved, and so on. I don’t mind following the mainstream if it’s the best compromise between speed and safety in achieving my goals, but I’d like to be able to determine that. Right now I fraknly feel like I’m mostly going blind.
Ing. (Ingeniero) in Spain, used as a pre-nominal, for the engineers who have the equivalent to a master’s degree as they studied five or six courses in an Engineering Superior School. Also exists the Ingeniero Técnico (I.T.), who is a professional that holds a Degree and a minimum formation of three courses in an engineering official college. Both types of engineers have full competency in their respective professional field of engineering, being the difference that the three-year Engineers have competence only in their speciality (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, etc.)and the “Engineering Superior School” Engineers have wider competences.
I think we do get all of the legal privileges (we get to sign projects) and responsibilities (we get to be responsible for anything bad that happens afterwards) as soon as we’re out of school, though I need to investigate that...
wait, seriously? I’ve got that along with perhaps slightly stronger programming skills, significantly more math, and a whole slew of concepts from an electrical engineering education.
Any good ideas for independent projects that would coincide with these sorts of skills?
Oh, I didn’t mention electrical engineering (specifically, power lines, motors and generators, static and dynamic converters and transformers) because I thought it was completely irrelevant to this particular task, as were my skills in mechanics and machine theory, thermodynamics and heat transfer, hydraulics, and automated control (off the top of my head). Of course, getting hired by rationalists and working among them would be freaking awesome, so if anyone’s got a job for the likes of me, please do tell.
Well, I must agree that your skill-set sucks for a project like this. But DAMN, that’s a pretty solid skill-set as skill-sets go.
Thank you, that’s very nice to hear. I myself am rather frustrated with it: I started out with the intention of leaving with a Save The World pack, but nowadays I’m finishing the degree and finding that it’s more like a Now At Least You Have A Vague Idea Where To Begin pack...
Now you’re at the point where the career center tries to usher you into a job at megacorp or lure you into formal graduate school.
Depending on which region of the world you’re in, the term “Engineer” may have certain regulatory obligations, meaning that you may feel the (sometimes debatable) allure of attempting to work enough years (usually 3) under an accredited engineer to earn your own designation; at least, so it seems in some countries.
Yes, precisely, you wouldn’t believe how much pressure we’re getting in that direction. I’d really like to find a proper study on how advisable that is, the interests and pressures involved, and so on. I don’t mind following the mainstream if it’s the best compromise between speed and safety in achieving my goals, but I’d like to be able to determine that. Right now I fraknly feel like I’m mostly going blind.
I think we do get all of the legal privileges (we get to sign projects) and responsibilities (we get to be responsible for anything bad that happens afterwards) as soon as we’re out of school, though I need to investigate that...
wait, seriously? I’ve got that along with perhaps slightly stronger programming skills, significantly more math, and a whole slew of concepts from an electrical engineering education.
Any good ideas for independent projects that would coincide with these sorts of skills?
Oh, I didn’t mention electrical engineering (specifically, power lines, motors and generators, static and dynamic converters and transformers) because I thought it was completely irrelevant to this particular task, as were my skills in mechanics and machine theory, thermodynamics and heat transfer, hydraulics, and automated control (off the top of my head). Of course, getting hired by rationalists and working among them would be freaking awesome, so if anyone’s got a job for the likes of me, please do tell.