<p>What kinds of entry level jobs should a young person look for who is interested in going back to grad school for engineering after working for two or three years? </p>
<p>My daughter is a senior applied math major with a physics minor. She will also have most of a major in Japanese with three years of language. She is not sure what she wants to do because she has such broad interests. Any ideas about what kind of job might expose her to different types of engineering work, so she can make an informed decision about engineering grad school? </p>
<p>She also is taking mathematical modeling classes and some classes in circuits.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>1) Operations Research Engineering (as they call it here in the DC area). Involves, modeling, simulation applied to a variety of engineering applications.</p>
<p>2) Software and Systems Engineering - Software engineering is pretty much explains itself but systems engineering can also use mathematical techniques in order to help produce a quality product. Reliability engineering is also related.</p>
<p>If you consider software engineering actual “engineering”, there is a world of data mining and computational engineering (visualization, algorithm development, etc) that falls in line with using applied math majors.</p>
<p>Of course there are less jobs and less longer projects in the non-software areas but I have always worked in the “cooler stuff” (non-software/non-I.T.) at different times in my career and then go back to software jobs as a “Plan B”.</p>
<p>P.S.: I did the B.S. Math to M.S. Engineering route as far as academics.</p>
<p>Thank you, GLOBALTRAVELER, that gives her a place to start.</p>