Do most engineering majors go to grad school

[Anonymous]

They can go to law school and become a patent attorney

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most don’t.

This. Most work in jobs as Professional Engineers after undergrad and passing their licensing tests. You don't need grad school to work as a P.E.

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Anonymous wrote:Most don’t.

This. Most work in jobs as Professional Engineers after undergrad and passing their licensing tests. You don't need grad school to work as a P.E.

Is professional malpractice insurance required if one practices as a P.E.?

[Anonymous]

For biomedical engineering, yes, she’ll pretty much need to go to grad school but it’s paid for by grants from the federal government. She’ll have to get into a phd program of course, so have her make sure she has good grades and some experience in a lab and it will be a big help.

Source: wife is a PI at a med school (also on admissions committee and talks about the applicants who have lab experience and a good sense of what they’re interested in)

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a junior interested in bio or biomedical engineering. I see a lot of posts saying “go to state school and save money for grad school”, but do most engineers go to grad school? DD really likes JHU (if she can get in), but wondering if it’s worth the money instead if state school.

If you're in MD, UMD is a great engineering school. If your kid gets in, s/he should go. My DS didn't get in. She did well as an undergrad elsewhere, and is now in a top grad engineering program. But I think she might have been working now and skipped grad school if she'd gotten into UMD. Her undergrad college didn't offer engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a junior interested in bio or biomedical engineering. I see a lot of posts saying “go to state school and save money for grad school”, but do most engineers go to grad school? DD really likes JHU (if she can get in), but wondering if it’s worth the money instead if state school.

If you're in MD, UMD is a great engineering school. If your kid gets in, s/he should go. My DS didn't get in. She did well as an undergrad elsewhere, and is now in a top grad engineering program. But I think she might have been working now and skipped grad school if she'd gotten into UMD. Her undergrad college didn't offer engineering.

Wasn't aware you could go to graduate engineering school without having studied engineering as an undergrad. What did your DS study in college?

[Anonymous]

Johns Hopkins would be very expensive. Not sure the engineering curriculum varies in any meaningful way from what's taught a state schools.

Have you looked at Buffalo or Akron? Another thread on this board suggests that rust belt schools are the new, big thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most don’t.

This. Most work in jobs as Professional Engineers after undergrad and passing their licensing tests. You don't need grad school to work as a P.E.

This is really dependent on the industry and field. Engineers working for the big corporations like Lockheed Martin or IBM or something aren’t general PEs. Your local structural or civil engineer helping to construct houses are going to be PEs
Becoming a PE is pretty trivial for any good engineering student though.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a junior interested in bio or biomedical engineering. I see a lot of posts saying “go to state school and save money for grad school”, but do most engineers go to grad school? DD really likes JHU (if she can get in), but wondering if it’s worth the money instead if state school.

If you're in MD, UMD is a great engineering school. If your kid gets in, s/he should go. My DS didn't get in. She did well as an undergrad elsewhere, and is now in a top grad engineering program. But I think she might have been working now and skipped grad school if she'd gotten into UMD. Her undergrad college didn't offer engineering.

Wasn't aware you could go to graduate engineering school without having studied engineering as an undergrad. What did your DS study in college?

Not PP. But, a physics major can easily handle engineering for grad school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many, many work straight out of school and don’t necessarily got to grad school. As PP said, engineers usually get grad school paid for by grants or employers.

This. You have to have work experience to take the PE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A JMU degree will probably lead to grad school a few years out. That is a general degree and not from an engineering school. It is a fine program, but ideally your kid will work a bit, gain a focus and want the masters.

Sorry. I misread the H for an M.

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Anonymous wrote:Every engineer I know save one has gone to grad school.

Right, but did they go directly from undergrad to grad school?
I’m an engineer and me and everyone else I know who are practicing engineers went to work right after undergrad, and then had our employers pay for masters degrees (often multiple masters).

I know a mix of EE PhDs and systems engineers.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a junior interested in bio or biomedical engineering. I see a lot of posts saying “go to state school and save money for grad school”, but do most engineers go to grad school? DD really likes JHU (if she can get in), but wondering if it’s worth the money instead if state school.

If you're in MD, UMD is a great engineering school. If your kid gets in, s/he should go. My DS didn't get in. She did well as an undergrad elsewhere, and is now in a top grad engineering program. But I think she might have been working now and skipped grad school if she'd gotten into UMD. Her undergrad college didn't offer engineering.

Wasn't aware you could go to graduate engineering school without having studied engineering as an undergrad. What did your DS study in college?

Not PP. But, a physics major can easily handle engineering for grad school.

I doubt that. LOL.

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My husband is an engineer in a small-ish civil/structural firm. Everyone in his company has a master's or is currently getting one. There are even a few PhD's. They hire a lot of people from the same few graduate schools, so I would maybe agree that it would be okay to get your undergrad from a state school, get excellent grades, and get a master's from a higher profile school.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a junior interested in bio or biomedical engineering. I see a lot of posts saying “go to state school and save money for grad school”, but do most engineers go to grad school? DD really likes JHU (if she can get in), but wondering if it’s worth the money instead if state school.

If you're in MD, UMD is a great engineering school. If your kid gets in, s/he should go. My DS didn't get in. She did well as an undergrad elsewhere, and is now in a top grad engineering program. But I think she might have been working now and skipped grad school if she'd gotten into UMD. Her undergrad college didn't offer engineering.

Wasn't aware you could go to graduate engineering school without having studied engineering as an undergrad. What did your DS study in college?

Not PP. But, a physics major can easily handle engineering for grad school.

I doubt that. LOL.

Depends on the program. A very research based, theoretical program will in some cases take physicists and mathematicians in preference to engineering majors. A more professionally focused graduate program may not. But in general, it's easier to go from physics to engineering than engineering to physics. I know a guy who worked for 30 years as a lead electrical engineer and no engineering training, just a physics PhD.