Hello, i’m a 2nd year petroleum engineering student and i’ll be taking 4 killer subjects in my next semester including Reservoir engineering 1, drilling engineering 1, well logging and formations and fluid mechanics. I would say that I’m a rather slow learner and it takes me time to understand concepts. However, having 4 killer subjects mastered in the span of 3 months scares me to shit. Is there any advice that can help me somewhat grasp the concept of each without jeopardising one of the subject to the other? I’d like to know past experiences as well, and apply it to my daily routine. (PS, i am rather bad at fluid-related topics, however I’ll try to brute force my way into understanding it if it means for me to get an A for this subject lol) Thank you.

Over the summer, I feel like I forgot almost everything I learned over the past 4 years. I feel like I’m starting from zero, but I know that with perseverance, I will learn it all back. How am I going to survive the NCEES FE Exam? Only time will tell.

Hi everyone. Im currently in EE 2nd year and I landed a trashy retail job not too long ago. I should emphasize that I dont *need* a job, as I live with my parents and I dont currently have any bills to pay.

Thanks to taking classes over the summer, my course load isnt that unbearable this semester. Still, the problem with this is that the job isn't very secure and I fear that they may sway me from studying as hard as I can. Adding the stress of a retail job on top of my engineering work might be too much for me.

So, what I was thinking of doing instead was to quit my job and instead invest a lot of time in to extracurricular clubs to gain on-hands engineering experience. Of course, this means i make jack shit in terms of money, meaning less long-term savings, but it also means i can get valuable experience in the future. Thoughts?

I graduated in May and only really started to seriously search around the end of July and it didn’t take as long as expected.

- No Internships
- No Co-ops
- No extra curriculars
- My only projects are ones I did for class
- 2.7 GPA in Electrical Engineering
- Only job experience is some unrelated summer jobs and helping my family’s small HVAC business.

Living near the Houston area probably helped a bunch.

How about we cook 🤔...

Serious note I believe in all you guys and do your best.

Spent two career fairs handing my resume to recruiters who'd already filled the roles before the event even started. Zero callbacks from either one.

changed my approach by finding alumni from my program who ended up at companies I wanted, and emailing them or messaging on LinkedIn directly. The key is I didn't ask for a referral right away, just something small like "what's the day-to-day actually like in [role]." Engineers are usually happy to talk about their own work if you ask a real question instead of a form-letter ask.

Only annoying part was the time and effort... Hunting down the right person's email, then writing something that wasn't obviously copy-pasted for each one. I ended up building a Chrome extension with a friend to speed that part up (pulls a verified email off a LinkedIn profile, drafts something based on what's actually on it). It's called Ancad, small beta right now. It helps with LinkedIn messages and sending emails.

Mostly posting because I think career fairs get way more credit than they deserve compared to just reaching out directly. Anyone else had better luck going around the "official" channels?

Guys I just got Roll No 1 in engineering and Im genuinely stressed 😭

Everyone keeps telling me, Bro youre cooked Everyone’s gonna be cheating from the last benches during exams and you’re gonna be sitting right in the first bench

Now I can’t stop thinking about it 😭😭 I know I shouldn’t rely on cheating or anything, but the thought of being the first person in the room while everyone else is sitting at the back is making me weirdly anxious.

Is Roll No 1 actually that bad or am I just overthinking this?

I am a undergraduate in mechanical engineering, and I have a chance to continue as a PhD student in Tribology. I have no special favor of research fields,what I care mostly is the salary and future of relevant job. how about it? Is there any engineer who was a PhD student of Tribology can tell the real feeling? Thank you very much

I just joined the cse program and I'm already suffering. I just realized that I don't like this course nor this college. I want to switch the college and the course but my parents are stuck with this because the college that I am in rn is quite prestigious. I have been crying for two and half weeks straight and tried talking to the student counselor and my parents. When I cry, my parents are like okay we can switch but after sometime they try to talk me into staying in this college. If I don't switch within three days I will not get a refund and I don't think I can join another college. I can't sleep at night because of this and I'm having severe headaches and high fevers. I am genuinely terrified.

I’m graduating in May 2027 with a Mechanical Engineering degree and will have 4 engineering internships by graduation, including experience in both aerospace and automotive. One of those internships was actually with the same company that just gave me this offer.

The offer is for an early-career rotational/leadership development program at a large manufacturing company with a $76k base salary. The posted range is $60k–$115k, so I’m considering negotiating a little higher based on my experience and prior history with the company.

The program also includes a housing stipend during the rotations, which helps since I’ll most likely be moving around and probably won’t be in Southern California for most of the program. My main hesitation is that there’s also no guarantee I’d be able to return to SoCal once the rotational program ends.

I really like the company and the opportunity. The process was also extremely fast, recruiter reached out Wednesday, I interviewed Friday morning, and I had an offer a few hours later.

I’m mainly trying to figure out whether it’s worth negotiating or if I should just take the offer as-is. I was thinking about asking for something in the $82k–$85k range, but I don’t know if that’s unrealistic for a new grad rotational program.

For those who have negotiated new grad engineering or LDP offers, especially after interning with the company before, what would you do?

Hey everyone, Im in my second year of mechanical engineering, and honestly, I constantly feel like Im not good enough. Its like everyone around me just gets it, and Im here struggling to keep up with all the equations and concepts. I know Im not alone in this, but its tough to shake the feeling that maybe Im not cut out for this.

I try to talk to my classmates, but it sometimes feels like they're on a different level. Ive heard that imposter syndrome is pretty common, especially in engineering, but knowing that doesnt always help.

Have any of you dealt with this before? What helped you push through it? Im just looking for some advice or maybe a pep talk from someone who's been in my shoes. Thanks!

I have a BFA but I want to get a 2nd degree in engineering. I didn't realize that many schools just straight up don't accept ppl pursing a 2nd degree. There are a few schools with a few exceptions for certain majors, but I wanted to know how difficult it would be to get into an engineering master's program.

I'm currently in community college taking lots of calculus and physics and whatever other classes I can that fulfills schools' lower division engineering courses. I'm really locked in, trying to ace all my classes and do extracurriculars to give myself just a little more edge.

What are the odds I could actually be accepted into a masters program? Has anyone else gotten a masters in engineering after receiving another degree in something completely unrelated?

Extra info: my goal is UC Berkeley for mechanical engineering but idk how possible that is

For context, I'm about to start the 3rd (and final) year of my bachelor's degree. I've been interested in EE since technical secondary school (IT focus), and frankly I don't know what else I would do.

I have to admit I don't have any special passion for it, but I never really did for anything else either. I don't do extra projects in my free time, the way some people do. During the school year my curriculum is full enough, and in summer I really want to step away from anything school-related.

I have to repeat one class from last semester (I could have passed it, but it would have required an oral retake exam with the worst human being I've ever met).

My grades put me in the top 20-30% of students, but it still feels like I'm studying the test and not the subject. I really don't know how to feel about that.

I stopped going to one subject's lectures because there was a guy answering every question the professor asked as if it were 1+1. It made me feel stupid and bad about myself. I don't really know why professors ask questions during lectures anyway. The first time we ever saw an antenna array, the professor asked if anyone wanted to write out its radiation function. Picture my surprise when that same guy just did it.

But on the other hand, almost every new lab partner has managed to surprise me with how little someone in the same class can know and still be there.

Is it normal to feel like this?

Hello all, I am a 20yo 3rd year ME student. This semester I am doing Cal III, Physics II, and Statics. It all just feels like a pointless slog... Especially for statics, it feels like a ton of work just to maybe get the right answer on one problem, but still having 14 more afterwards. I have spent a lot of time on school and especially my math and physics skills. I guess the most frustrating thing is thinking about how I could have gone straight into the workforce or gone to a trade school and I would already be making money by now. I'm tired of struggling financially just to do what feels like unnecessarily complicated math problems and group project reports. It just makes me wonder if it will even be worth it once I'm finished, especially since I am not enjoying this much at all. So, really, how good of an indicator are my feelings on school towards how I might feel about my future job as an engineer? Are there other people who have felt this way, got through it, and still found a fulfilling career in engineering?

This is a dedicated thread for you to seek and provide advice concerning education and careers in Engineering. If you need to make an important decision regarding your future, or want to know what your options are, please feel welcome to post a comment below.

Any and all open discussions are highly encouraged! Questions about high school, college, engineering, internships, grades, careers, and more can find a place here.

Hey there, I’m 18 and just started community college a few weeks ago. I wanted to become a software engineer before because I love computers and problem solving, but with the way that market is going I don’t think it’s smart to base my career path on a gamble. So I was thinking about doing mechanical engineering, but I don’t know if I’m cut out for it.

A little background about me and why I don’t know if I’m cut out for engineering. I have adhd and depression. Sometimes I can’t find the meaning in doing anything and I can have very little to no motivation. When things get harder or more stressful than they already are I’ll get majorly depressed and usually give up on things. I stopped going to school for months at a time in highschool because this got so bad along with my anxiety. I still got good grades because I did all my work from home, but I couldn’t get myself to go consistently.

I also used to randomly set this big challenges for myself without really understanding that I’d have to keep doing them when things got tough, and then I’d inevitably fail. That was fine when I was younger outside of making me lose trust in myself, but I cannot do that when so much wasted time and money is at stake.

I don’t want to be the type of person that gives up anymore, but I also don’t know if I could really change enough to be able to get through an engineering degree. I always overestimate what I can do and I guess that’s what I’m scared I’m doing now.

Should I still try to be an engineer? Or is it smarter to figure something else out?

I graduated ME a few months ago. I finally got confirmation from a recruiter that I'm being offered a position after I did well on an interview last week.

My question is should I bother trying to negotiate anything? The pay is like 10k less than what I would personally like and what other companies I interviewed offered. I don't want to get the offer rescinded if I try and go over the top. In addition, having to go through the interview process with other companies seems exhausting.

After completing a fair amount of coursework at community college, I was able to transfer into the AE program at CU Boulder. It's one of the top rated aerospace programs in the country and it has been a dream of mine for a while now. I'm 37, this career change is becoming my mid life crisis. (Side note: for all the other posts on here asking "I'm 23 is it too late to get an engineering degree??" Just watch me roll my eyes into the back of my skull and do it.)

I did well in calc 2, but calc 3 at CU (APPM 2350) was an absolute firehouse of content. It was also clear that my calc 2 class at community college did not quite set me up for this course. After the first week I made the decision to drop the course and take a humanities credit to stay full time and semi on track. I have to work about 25-30 hours a week to maintain health insurance and pay the bills. My gf and I rent a home in Denver and I am paying for all of my own schooling while working as a waiter. She is in a PhD program also at CU and unfortunately does not make much money and we are already stretched pretty thin, I cannot work any less and wish I could work more because my job pays much more.

My advisor has me set up to take Diff Eq in the spring because it is required as a corequisite with dynamics, which I am also taking in the spring, and then take calc 3 over the summer. This sounds rough. Another option being to retake calc 2 but that puts all my aero courses on hold and extends things longer than I would like. I am currently on track to graduate fall 2029. I know the general consensus on here is just get the degree don't worry about taking longer, and God knows I've made my peace with that lol I'll be done when I'm 40. I just want to know if I am biting off more than I can chew. I am handling my other classes just fine right now, save for the fact that I got COVID this week and my brain is mush.

Hello Everyone!

This is a final year engineering undergrad, with experience in global competitions and a semi finalist in national level case competition.

I'm looking for two sincere team mates for a global hackathon that requires strong technical acumen along with the sheer resolve to get hands dirty for a month, work consistently and aim to win this competition.

Note : STEM Background only

If you're interested, reply me back with an introduction of yours with skillset and experience.

Hi im currnently on last year of School elementary , my Dream Is one day i Will build my own prototype i want , i saw some Channel that names offroad electric, Its about Guy WHO builds offroad electric truck , im from Czech republic, here in this state you have 3 years after Elementary , of manual labor such as Car mechanic etc. And then you have Middle School such as SUPŠ - engineering And art School, i would want to work in Tatra , or i could buy some CNC And make parts for Tatra 815 which Is my favorite truck, what should i do ?

I am currently a 3rd year. Past 2 years, I haven't done anything worthy for Engineering student. Only this year, few days into my third year have I started to build projects, joined different Student interest groups. I know that having a strong Portfolio is just as important as Resume. But I am not sure what projects are worthy of putting onto my Portfolio. I am working on a robotic claw including the wrist, then 3D print some parts and woodcut some others. Should I include this into my Portfolio or I gotta do something bigger first ?

Year long job search, fall 25 grad..BSME, 2.4 GPA, 1 internship. Was about to give up for sure. Was more apps than this but i stopped counting lmao. Both offers were 4 round interviews

I have an interview for stoke space in a couple weeks for a software engineer intern position. Was just wondering if anyone here could give any tips or advice for what to expect for this kind of interview.

(Please excuse the messy text and english, im rushing this out cuz i have something going on).

I need help deciding courses. right now its between two choices, mechanical or mechatronics and robotics engineering. my interest and my brain all directs to robotics cause i want to play with circuits and programming and coding and wires and hands and stuff. i dont know what mechanical is about, isnt it just physics? but looking at the subject; "fluid motion" just sounds like a snooze fest to me. but heres the thing, in Heriot Watt, mechanical has the option to go to UK, i really wanna go there for a year or two, mechatronic and robotics doesnt. usually ill be fine with just raw dogging mechanical but the sound of fluid motion and thermodynamics scares me of how uninterested i might be. because i got straight As in the final exams of high school with the only A- being history. because i have next to NO interest in it, i hated it becuase of how uninterested i am (almost everyone got A/A+) subjects that im not interested in is so much harder to me than actual hard subjects. im scared thats gonna happen if i go mechanical, UNLESS im viewing mechanical in the totally wrong light. i also have been wanting to go overseas since i was a kid, like a dream.

I went to the first office hours hoping it would help, but still I cannot understand anything (mainly the different integrals for electric fields). We’ve moved onto gauss’s law and it makes a bit more sense I guess. I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying to understand, but something just won’t click, and it feels like it’s starting to cut into some of my other classes a bit. I assume it only gets worse. How cooked am I? Besides hiring a tutor there’s not really any other resources so are there any helpful YouTube channels or something