JohnInCarolina said:

Just learned one of my top PhD recruits is coming to Duke next year.  3.9 GPA in Mechanical Engineering.  Not too shabby.

Borderline credentials.  But I know your standards.

lousubcap said:

@JohnInCarolina - That student must have had great judgement for his undergrad...too bad you threw all the $$ to land him...Do I sense a roll-off of the NCAA B'ball twist here??  

Nobody gets rich getting their PhD, but we do "throw money" at these students.  They don't pay tuition to attend (that is charged to grants) and they receive over $30k a year as a stipend (also charged to grants).  

When I was an engineering student, people told me this was the deal at pretty much all of the top schools.  I didn't believe it myself until it happened to me.  Just seems too good to be true.  Most of the hard sciences are like this as well. 

Botch said:

Mechanical Engineers understand heat transfer and just enough chemistry to be, head-and-shoulders, the best barbequers amongst all the lesser engineering disciplines.  

I agree with that.  Their IT skills however is a different matter...

Botch said:

Mechanical Engineers understand heat transfer and just enough chemistry to be, head-and-shoulders, the best barbequers amongst all the lesser engineering disciplines.  

It’s the best engineering major if you ask me.  Always has been.

bgebrent said:  
Their IT skills however is a different matter...

And I definitely agree with that!  

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

Mechanical Engineers understand heat transfer and just enough chemistry to be, head-and-shoulders, the best barbequers amongst all the lesser engineering disciplines.  

It’s the best engineering major if you ask me.  Always has been.

I started out as an Aerospace Engineer at Iowa State. 169 of us were winnowed down to 30 by the time "they" hit their senior year (I gave up first quarter Junior year) and only 19 of them actually graduated on time.
It turned out to be a silver lining.  Aerospace engineering jobs are few and far between now, even in Air Force civil service; MEs, on the other hand, are required in just about everything except IT (and marketing/politics).  I've only been unemployed 18 days out of my adult life because of that ME degree, and for that I'm thankful.    

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

Mechanical Engineers understand heat transfer and just enough chemistry to be, head-and-shoulders, the best barbequers amongst all the lesser engineering disciplines.  

It’s the best engineering major if you ask me.  Always has been.

I started out as an Aerospace Engineer at Iowa State. 169 of us were winnowed down to 30 by the time "they" hit their senior year (I gave up first quarter Junior year) and only 19 of them actually graduated on time.
It turned out to be a silver lining.  Aerospace engineering jobs are few and far between now, even in Air Force civil service; MEs, on the other hand, are required in just about everything except IT (and marketing/politics).  I've only been unemployed 18 days out of my adult life because of that ME degree, and for that I'm thankful.    

When I was getting my degree, only about a quarter of the MEs were able to graduate in four years.  Everyone else needed at least five.

It was a crazy major.  We routinely had five classes a semester, and three of those had labs.  I had two full semesters of materials science, two full semesters of circuits and signals, two semesters of control theory, on and on.  Our exams were impossible.  High scores of 75 were routine.  

But everyone who graduated with the degree besides me got real jobs.  

FTFY.

Absolutely killer @SciAggie

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

Mechanical Engineers understand heat transfer and just enough chemistry to be, head-and-shoulders, the best barbequers amongst all the lesser engineering disciplines.  

It’s the best engineering major if you ask me.  Always has been.

I started out as an Aerospace Engineer at Iowa State. 169 of us were winnowed down to 30 by the time "they" hit their senior year (I gave up first quarter Junior year) and only 19 of them actually graduated on time.
It turned out to be a silver lining.  Aerospace engineering jobs are few and far between now, even in Air Force civil service; MEs, on the other hand, are required in just about everything except IT (and marketing/politics).  I've only been unemployed 18 days out of my adult life because of that ME degree, and for that I'm thankful.    

When I was getting my degree, only about a quarter of the MEs were able to graduate in four years.  Everyone else needed at least five.

Let me just say that there is nothing wrong with the five year plan....unless you are paying for it.

northGAcock said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

Mechanical Engineers understand heat transfer and just enough chemistry to be, head-and-shoulders, the best barbequers amongst all the lesser engineering disciplines.  

It’s the best engineering major if you ask me.  Always has been.

I started out as an Aerospace Engineer at Iowa State. 169 of us were winnowed down to 30 by the time "they" hit their senior year (I gave up first quarter Junior year) and only 19 of them actually graduated on time.
It turned out to be a silver lining.  Aerospace engineering jobs are few and far between now, even in Air Force civil service; MEs, on the other hand, are required in just about everything except IT (and marketing/politics).  I've only been unemployed 18 days out of my adult life because of that ME degree, and for that I'm thankful.    

When I was getting my degree, only about a quarter of the MEs were able to graduate in four years.  Everyone else needed at least five.

Let me just say that there is nothing wrong with the five year plan....unless you are paying for it.

College.  Best 6 years of my life.

HeavyG said:

TN_Egger said:

northGAcock said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

Mechanical Engineers understand heat transfer and just enough chemistry to be, head-and-shoulders, the best barbequers amongst all the lesser engineering disciplines.  

It’s the best engineering major if you ask me.  Always has been.

I started out as an Aerospace Engineer at Iowa State. 169 of us were winnowed down to 30 by the time "they" hit their senior year (I gave up first quarter Junior year) and only 19 of them actually graduated on time.
It turned out to be a silver lining.  Aerospace engineering jobs are few and far between now, even in Air Force civil service; MEs, on the other hand, are required in just about everything except IT (and marketing/politics).  I've only been unemployed 18 days out of my adult life because of that ME degree, and for that I'm thankful.    

When I was getting my degree, only about a quarter of the MEs were able to graduate in four years.  Everyone else needed at least five.

Let me just say that there is nothing wrong with the five year plan....unless you are paying for it.

College.  Best 6 years of my life.

Eighth grade - best two years of my life.

You finished??  #envious.

Botch said:

Mechanical Engineers understand heat transfer and just enough chemistry to be, head-and-shoulders, the best barbequers amongst all the (lesser) engineering disciplines.  

Top of the engineering tree.

Head's up, Geek Joke.
Three engineers were arguing what kind of Engineer God was.  The ME said, "Of course God was an ME; just look at the fantastic mechanical design he did on the human body!"
The Electrical Engineer said, "No, just look at the fantastic circuitry used to control that body, not to mention the computing power of the brain; God was an EE!"
Both engineers then looked at the Civil Engineer, who only said, "Only a CE would put the playground right next to the toxic waste dump."