How can a BSEET grad get a real engineering job?

YeahReally
Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:47:57 +0000

That is why as smart as some engineers really are with logic…they have very little common sense. If they truly work with variables, the biggest one missed is when it comes to people. I’m in a field where if I want to advance, I have to get a degree. Since I am in the same boat as the original poster, the choices available are not even close to what people like your husband understand. There are more BSEE’s coming from other countries and working for less money. I know personally a guy that is in the top 5% of his field and has no paper. I also know another guy that has the “right” paper that would not know what an electron was if it bit him on the nose. Might be able to solve a math problem but could not do anything else. It is people that don’t have the “right papers” that catch why a design is flawed and causes issues. This being said, the “right” engineers are relying more on the experienced technicians until they “catch on” which I have seen take 3-5 years. Technicians are expected to be proficient in as few as 6 months with 3 months of shadowing. Again the reason why the field gets saturated with the wrong people is because they have the “right” paper…