Any Engineering students or post-grads here? This section of the forum is particularly barren so I hope this is appropriate.

Undergraduates: What are you studying? Are you enjoying it? Future prospects? Do Physics lecturers tell the worst science jokes or is it just me?

Post grads: What have you studied? Any insight for us current students, regarding Engineering or otherwise? Where did your degree lead you? Future studies? Future prospects?

I am studying Energy and Environmental Engineering, First year of a three year Bachelor Degree.

I thought some of my lecturers' jokes were not too bad. I'm a second year physics undergraduate.
Physics is awesome and I have access to a massive university library where I can get Carl Sagan books without paying for them. :p

Thought I was alone here!

Fantastic! I have two physics lectures and one physics lab a week. Currently focusing on Newtonian mechanics. The jokes are all still awful but he is trying to make the labs less banal for some of the year.

I took 'Daniel Dennet's - Breaking the spell' out recently. What would you recommend by Carl Sagan?

I got a degree in Aeronautical engineering (in 1989...). Do I count? My post graduate degrees are more management stuff thoguh...

Ofcourse you count LarianLeQuella!

That sounds fascinating, any advice for an engineering fresher?

why are so many engineers creationists?

I dont understand the question. Care to elaborate Clive?

Me, I'm a former engineering student (mech engg in 1995, post-grad degrees in systems engineering and management). Hope I'm welcome here.

Clive Durdle wrote:why are so many engineers creationists?

One reason could be that engineers are designers, so they like to infer design and recognize patterns in random data. That said, I haven't actually ever met an engineer who was a creationist. (Maybe some of them like to keep it a secret?)

Here is an electronics engineer. I've been doing it all my adult life and decided to get degreed in 2006 before I took my pension from the forces in 2007. My favorite area is analog RF, but there's just no call for that sort of stuff any more. I'm a network engineer for the NATO military headquarters here in Belgium now.

As for the creationist thing, I've never heard of an engineer who is a creationist.

First year undergrad student in Bioengineering with an emphasis in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Graduated as an Architectural Engineer last year (sept. 2010, Bsc). I graduated in Building Physics (energy, mostly) and Architecture. Currently I work as an advisor on how to build energy efficient houses / buildings.

^^That's so awesome

I got a degree in civil/environmental in 1984, but had a dual major in computer science so I ended up programming rather than designing bridges and sewage treatment plants. I still use a lot of it, though. Starting a house addition in the next week or so, I need to get out my statics and structures texts (if I can find them).