<p>1) Anyone know about University of Pittsburgh’s engineering program? Though they have a good rank, I can’t seem to find their career placement/recruitment statistics and information and that bothers me a bit. Do a lot of big name corporations/fortune 500 recruit there? I really love the city of Pittsburgh, and CMU is really not a financial option.</p>
<p>2)Why would someone with a Computer Engineering degree or Computer Science degree want to go into the IT world instead of engineering when they could have entered the IT world with a major not as tedious as an engineering major? I would think that working as an Engineer would be wanted over IT troubleshooting and such. Is IT a good start right out of school for engineering majors, or is that just a matter of preference?</p>
<p>I’m sorry if these could be answered with a search, but I didn’t find anything substantial in my searches.</p>
<p>I.T. not about troubleshooting. Many I.T. groups support engineering groups. A CS major may be called upon to help develop a system that will store the data from say…signal analysis. In many cases, that will require a CS major/Software Engineer to “ramp up” in the fundamentals of signal analysis.</p>
<p>A person modeling the data cannot just model engineering data without some knowledge…and sometime projects do not have the money to have some “signals expert” sit there and explain everything to the CS major.</p>
<p>This is an odd question. Who is doing this? If you get an engineering degree i’d think you got it for a reason, to use it. I could see someone doing this because they can’t find an engineering job. If someone did this under normal circumstances then i’m not sure why they’d bother with all the extra work with an engineering degree. In fact, I don’t think a computer engineer would be equally qualified to do IT as much as an IT grad would.</p>
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<p>*Generally your first job is pretty import because it sets your career in motion. Most engineering jobs you get out of college are based on the type of degree you have, what your gpa is, where you went to school, and any experience you have. You’re hired to be trained. Your second job will be more about your experience and you’ll see that job reqs are pretty specific. If you work in IT for 5 years, it’s gonna make it harder for you to get into a traditional engineering job because you don’t have the experience. You might have to apply for an engineering job that requires 0 to 2 yrs experience in this scenario.</p>
<p>If you’re got the grades for CMU you should definitely apply. I went to CMU and my brother went to Pitt. My tuition wound up being lower than his since I got a few merit scholarships plus financial aid from CMU.</p>
<p>To answer question #2: Because they can’t find a job! Do you know how many people there are out there who work in lower fields than they are educated in due to the economy? There was an article the week about a law school graduate working at Radio Shack. I am sure there are many engineers working out of the engineering profession due to a lack of job opportunities.</p>