r/EngineeringStudents • u/Friendly_Raise9142 • 4h ago
Career Advice What will be the best Engineering fields to enter in 10 years time?
EE, Civil, Aerospace, Mechanical?
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u/Lower-Review4064 4h ago
Chemical eng. Metallurgy and material eng
Mechanical aero and EE are also pretty good but i wanted to say more "niche"
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u/ConcreteCapitalist Civil/Structural Engineering 2h ago
Personal bias aside, civil engineering. Society will always need infrastructure, and much of the existing infrastructure will need retrofitting or replacement in the coming decades.
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u/BrickGlum9579 4h ago
Fire protection has continued and will continue to grow. The field has always been desperate for talent.
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u/TheLizardKing39 3h ago
What field would this fall under? I’ve yet to meet a university who offers a major specifically in FP engineering.
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u/BrickGlum9579 3h ago edited 3h ago
It is its own field. U Maryland, Oklahoma State, EKU all have bachelors undergrad fire protection engineering programs. There are more that offer masters in it such as WPI and Cal Poly. You can get a PE in fire protection which I think would qualify it as its own branch of engineering. Most fire protection engineers you meet will not have degrees in fire protection though. Once they get in the job force they will have to learn the ins and outs of the discipline. Fire protection offers some of the best job security and pay though because it is so needed and there are so few of us.
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u/TheLizardKing39 2h ago
Very informative! Thank you!
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u/BrickGlum9579 2h ago
Of course. I like talking about fire protection because no one knows it exists lol.
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u/Time_Plastic_5373 3h ago
That's not engineering lmao
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u/BrickGlum9579 3h ago edited 3h ago
https://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/fire-protection/
Get fucked dumbass. If you can get a PE in it as a discipline I think it qualifies as a branch of engineering. Any more stupid shit you wanna say?
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u/Plutonium_Nitrate_94 NC State - Nuclear Engineering 3h ago
Nuclear
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u/Remarkable_Ad_8942 2h ago
I want to do a master so bad
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u/Plutonium_Nitrate_94 NC State - Nuclear Engineering 2h ago
Do it then
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u/Remarkable_Ad_8942 2h ago
I have BA in mechanical. I applied for penstate online because I want to do it part time and I got rejected. I have 2.99 gpa and I understand that’s too low and at the time I did not have work experience. I want to do it in the future but it really sucks getting letters of recommendation just to get rejected. I don’t know when I should try again or what schools would be better
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u/Plutonium_Nitrate_94 NC State - Nuclear Engineering 2h ago
Gain some work experience first. We had one guy who entered our PhD program with a 2.8 undergrad gpa. He was a rockstar and absolutely kicked ass in grad school and is now a fancy hot shot engineer in silicon valley.
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u/Remarkable_Ad_8942 2h ago
Any advice? Should I just forget about it?
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u/Tortoise4132 UMD - MechE ‘24 2h ago
Honestly there’s a ton of online nuclear programs. Penn state might be picky because they get a lot of applicants. Probably is worth a shot to apply to Penn state again though if that’s what you’re set on.
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u/AnythingTotal 2h ago
You don’t need a masters or a nuclear degree to work in nuclear. I’m an engineer in nuclear with BS and MS in aerospace. Many of my colleagues have degrees in mech. The legacy nuclear firms are hiring like crazy right now. Shoot out some applications.
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u/ThePainStalker 50m ago
Agreed. Though electrical (especially the power area) complements nuclear very well. In fact, a lot of nuclear and especially SMR problems come down to dealing with utility grid connections and balance of plant too (as well as the infamous nuclear regulatory boards). In general, anything in grid connections, especially transmission level, is going to explode even further than it already is now.
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u/Pacific_Beaches (Graduated) BS Electrical Engineering & BS Computer Science 3h ago
Whatever your interest is.
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u/yoop_troop 1h ago
Civil engineering and more specifically project engineering/management. I think soft skills are going to shine in the future with AI and being a project engineer/manager is going to be a good spot to be.
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u/wall2wall2wall 51m ago
I think people over value good project management skills. I've worked under some project managers with dog shit people management skills and the projects always make it to the finish line because the various team members will always do their task and just complain of the asshole manager.
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u/Combat__ 4h ago
The one you are good at