<p>“I think its a common issue with liberal art colleges. But I feel that a lot of Mudd students dont really do hardcore engineering as soon as they graduate, but instead want to learn more and advance their skills in Grad/Biz School. Normally, they end up in engineering companies, but at higher managerial positions. I am not sure if this is true (just saying from my common sense) but looking at the salary potentials, its seems to be so.”</p>
<p>nah. mudders tend to stick to technical work after graduation. i made fairly good money out of school and i mostly do high performance mechanical design. you know, parts designed from nickel alloys and titanium alloys and are trimmed to hold safety margins of only 1.25. i’m certain that many other mudders to equally demanding technical work out of school. i don’t hear about too many people going into business per se.</p>
<p>“Got into a huge argument with my brother-in-law. He has a small 40 people M/E/P engineering company in Houston. He said he had never heard of HMC ,didn’t know what to make of a general engineering degree and that low GPA’s would be an issue for him. He gets engineers from those engineering factories UT, TAMU mostly, with 3.8-4.0 GPA’s. He
starts them out at about 90K with benefits. Now I know Caltech, MIT, HMC students would not want to work at a place like this, but what gives? Is this just last century engineering with all the cool stuff being done at these premier schools? He said if you want to work in Texas and thats a Big if, then the UT brand for his type of engineering means more. My kid doesn’t want to work in that field. This whole thing is making me crazy”</p>
<p>don’t worry about it. these types of companies are probably doing grunt engineering. i know for a fact that hmc is on the radar of people such as this: [url=<a href=“http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1894289_1894278,00.html]Jeff”>http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1894289_1894278,00.html]Jeff</a> Bezos<a href=“and%20not%20merely%20for%20software%20engineering”>/url</a></p>