Anyone have siblings studying CS or Engineering as well.

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<p>Today I found out my younger brother is studying Electrical Engineering. That makes 4 out of 6 of going into the tech industry. My sister has a C.S degree from UMich and I am pursuing a C.S degree as well. My other brother is majoring in Computer Engineering. Plus my father is a technician.</p>

<p>I have found that the many people I talk to who are CS major either had a parent or a sibling who also majored in CS. Do you think that more people are likely to study computers when a parent or sibling aslo has studied it. Have any of you studying CS or Engineering noticed this as well in your own family or other families of people you’ve talk to.</p>

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<p>I wish I could sit and talk with all you guys so I could figure out whether I want to major in cs, ce, or ee… hahah</p>

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<p>3 cousins doing civil, and I’m doing petroleum. We will be the first engineers in our family so I doubt that being related to a person with a similar degree may influence that much into a decision.</p>

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<p>Interesting question. DW is a programmer and I started out as a CS major (eventually pre-business). Son#1 is a CS major. Son#2 will start next year as a CompEng.</p>

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<p>I’m an only child, but my cousin is a mechanical engineer and my uncle is an electrical engineer.</p>

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<p>5 cousins, 2 brothers -> all non-technical (econ/mba + 1 film)
Dad has engineering degree + MBA, he initially discouraged me from going engineering (at the time he was right).</p>

<p>Oddly enough my wife has a BFA, but now works for a lucrative defense software company (not as a software engineer though).</p>

<p>Most of my friends outside of school are CS majors though, I’ll pose the question at the LAN party this Saturday.</p>

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<p>Nope, just me in my immediate family. I think one of my aunts majored in CS or IT though, but I don’t have any close relation to her.</p>

<p>We do have a family friend (about my parent’s age) who got a Masters in Industrial Engineering. But I have no blood relation to him.</p>

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<p>When I meet other female structural engineers, I always ask them if their dad was/is an engineer. I think I’ve met only two women whose fathers WEREN’T! My dad is an engineering prof. My sister is a teacher - so my dad passed on his teaching AND engineering genes.</p>

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<p>This is tradition back in my home country - my older daughter is 3rd generation building/construction related (architecture), a bunch of cousins all studied economics, two of wife’s siblings dentists, etc. My younger daughter will likely follow her parents into CS or Bioinformatics. In general it’s easier because you can see what a major involves.</p>

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<p>I’m a mentor for a FIRST Robotics team. There was one year where every student on the team had a father who was an engineer.</p>

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<p>I think it fairly common to see family themes. DH and I are both Mech Eng, and we’ve noticed many other students at our son’s engineering school have two parents that are engineers. Our D also tried engineering, but for her Econ is better fit.</p>

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<p>The kids’ father is a CS major. I’m an RN now, but was a technician back in the day. (I don’t think the kids even know that.) I have two kids currently majoring in ChemE and a high schooler that has also declared their desire to be a ChemE, all girls.</p>

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<p>My daughter is a CS major, but neither I nor her mother nor any other relatives are engineers or computer scientists.</p>