What's up with all the engineering majors?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In general, it's still a fairly small number majoring. Google says there were 82,500 kids graduating with a Bachelor's degree in engineering in 1990 and it's 200,000 today.

Assume a 50% dropout rate, but those are still small numbers compared to the entire college population.

Like many other careers, the engineers who are best able to use AI to increase their productivity 5x will be in high demand.

There are 2 million freshmen every year. So engineers are 10%? That seems like a lot.

Sadly, engineering has a high dropout rate, about 50%. The math is challenging for most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's great...until you spend your days breathing in carcinogens in a refinery or paper mill.

Wait, what do you think engineers do?

Those would be industrial engineers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's great...until you spend your days breathing in carcinogens in a refinery or paper mill.

Wait, what do you think engineers do?

Those would be industrial engineers.

you're kidding right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In general, it's still a fairly small number majoring. Google says there were 82,500 kids graduating with a Bachelor's degree in engineering in 1990 and it's 200,000 today.

Assume a 50% dropout rate, but those are still small numbers compared to the entire college population.

Like many other careers, the engineers who are best able to use AI to increase their productivity 5x will be in high demand.

There are 2 million freshmen every year. So engineers are 10%? That seems like a lot.

Sadly, engineering has a high dropout rate, about 50%. The math is challenging for most.

I think posters that hate on engineering majors on this board know they couldn't survive nor have the math/science aptitude for that curriculum so they spend the rest of the time posting how humanities is the new major in this new age technology. lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In general, it's still a fairly small number majoring. Google says there were 82,500 kids graduating with a Bachelor's degree in engineering in 1990 and it's 200,000 today.

Assume a 50% dropout rate, but those are still small numbers compared to the entire college population.

Like many other careers, the engineers who are best able to use AI to increase their productivity 5x will be in high demand.

There are 2 million freshmen every year. So engineers are 10%? That seems like a lot.

Sadly, engineering has a high dropout rate, about 50%. The math is challenging for most.

Good programs will graduate 85% or more of their engineering students and they will leave with an engineering degree.

[Anonymous]

Engineering is incredibly hard. You end up with a job. Signed two engineers that graduated in 2001

[Anonymous]

I know a ton of engineers. Graduated from Stanford in the late 80s when Page Mill Road was just a dusty road on a hill behind the university. The ones who did really well and had interesting careers are those who somehow learned to write and communicate really well, and who have great people skills. So, you need to not be like most engineers to rise to the top. I also know a ton of people who work in tech firms (admin side - marketing, managing, creating, etc...) and make ridiculous money but who were humanities or social science majors.

[Anonymous]

I think most engineers will wind up working for non-engineers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think most engineers will wind up working for non-engineers.

Humanities grad Amiright? Sorry not smart enough

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think most engineers will wind up working for non-engineers.

Humanities grad Amiright? Sorry not smart enough

Is applied mathematics humanities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's great...until you spend your days breathing in carcinogens in a refinery or paper mill.

Wait, what do you think engineers do?

Those would be industrial engineers.

you're kidding right?

Fine. Call them process engineers if you like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's great...until you spend your days breathing in carcinogens in a refinery or paper mill.

Wait, what do you think engineers do?

Those would be industrial engineers.

you're kidding right?

Fine. Call them process engineers if you like.

lol Industrial Engineering is does not mean what you think it does. Most the industrial engineers I know are in Corporate and Management. It's more of a science, systems and math business degree .

[Anonymous]

IMO engineering is the only actually valuable/impressive undergrad degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's great...until you spend your days breathing in carcinogens in a refinery or paper mill.

Wait, what do you think engineers do?

Those would be industrial engineers.

you're kidding right?

Fine. Call them process engineers if you like.

lol Industrial Engineering is does not mean what you think it does. Most the industrial engineers I know are in Corporate and Management. It's more of a science, systems and math business degree .

+2

I’m in healthcare administration and have worked with a ton of industrial engineers. It’s essentially process optimization.

My husband is an engineer (electrical) and his cohort would call industrial engineers “imagineers.”

[Anonymous]

Some places offer Systems Engineering in lieu of industrial Engineering. They are very similar, but not identical.