Engineering?

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Anonymous wrote:Boy, this got off-track quickly. Back to the OP's question, I have relatives that got engineering degrees at Union College in upstate New York and Bucknell in Pennsylania. All of them loved their college experiences and went on to very prestigious engineering PhD programs. Good luck to your son!

slight s/o here: What do people with engineering PhDs do besides teach? (I'm curious b/c 2 of my kids will be getting BS degrees in engineering, so DH and I -- both history majors -- are trying to educate ourselves about this profession.)

A Masters in Engineering is usually the terminal degree for engineers. We have one friend who is a PhD in Engineering and he works for a big four accounting firm and audits electric companies- to make sure they are doing things safely.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boy, this got off-track quickly. Back to the OP's question, I have relatives that got engineering degrees at Union College in upstate New York and Bucknell in Pennsylania. All of them loved their college experiences and went on to very prestigious engineering PhD programs. Good luck to your son!

slight s/o here: What do people with engineering PhDs do besides teach? (I'm curious b/c 2 of my kids will be getting BS degrees in engineering, so DH and I -- both history majors -- are trying to educate ourselves about this profession.)

Research.

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Work for the government - DARPA, Army Research Lab, NIST and more...

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Anonymous wrote:Work for the government - DARPA, Army Research Lab, NIST and more...

NTSB.

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Anonymous wrote:Work for the government - DARPA, Army Research Lab, NIST and more...

NTSB.

Also alot of the contractors to NASA and USGS (LandSat) are engineers -- Aerospace Corp. and others. Sometimes you are a true engineer and sometimes you are a systems engineer or program coordinator. I have a friend who has a PhD and he is an investigator at NTSB.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the input! His list so far as of now: UMD Purdue Michigan

I would add UIUC (University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Work for the government - DARPA, Army Research Lab, NIST and more...

NTSB.

Also alot of the contractors to NASA and USGS (LandSat) are engineers -- Aerospace Corp. and others. Sometimes you are a true engineer and sometimes you are a systems engineer or program coordinator. I have a friend who has a PhD and he is an investigator at NTSB.

What does a systems engineer do? Does this simply mean that you manage an interdisciplinary staff and budget? Also, what do engineers who go the MBA route do?

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If he's looking at Purdue and Michigaon, think about adding Notre Dame And U of Illonois to the list.

Perhaps Drexel too - at least several years ago they had a great coop program