What kind of engineering.. Or MATH?

jwxie
Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:57:51 +0000

running business for limited natural resources…

I don’t get it?
I think turning dungs into a fuel is very good business (a Boston park is doing it - an MIT art graduate implemented it). Beside that, if we collect enough dungs, we can actually power up all the fabrications labs that AMD, Intel, and MS have! The amount of dungs is quite limited



My ultimate dream is serving missionary work as an engineer.

One I can think of, even as a student, is the “Engineer Without Broader” initiative. You can search it on Google. It’s one of the most well-known initiatives where engineering students traveled to a foreign place (usually a third-world, or under-development country) and implement a solution for whatever the given problem was. For example, setting a water pipe and tank for a village, where the water resource comes a river, or a lake, about “some hours” of distance from the village.

EWB is usually populated by civil engineering students. But anyone is welcome. I have seen problems where EE is required. There are some environmental engineers too (even though some CE concentrates on water system, but environmental also does a similar track with water).

Another one would definitely be the UN mission. It is not necessarily a “missionary” which is usually the Christian type. If you wished, there are various Christian organizations out there!



My father, who is a mechanical engineer, wants me to go into engineering field…
He recommends me electrical, but some of my peers say it will be too hard for me.

I met you online so I can’t evaluate your strengths at all. SAT and GPA can tell us your ability as an exam taker, and a student, respectively. But they don’t tell us whether you are a good engineer or not.
I have to admit that I am not a smart person when it comes to science and math. I am a slow learner compare to some of my peers. But am I a good engineering student? Will I become a good engineer? If you are interested in the subject, and you can implement something outside your classroom (maybe some years later), and that you are a responbile and a hard working student, you are a good engineer.

Perseverance is what majority of people lack of today. Don’t be discourage by what your peers say. However, should you take their comments into consideration before making a decision. You still have some months, or a year or two (if you wished -___-) before declaring a major.

You should speak to your father and see what kind of works he performs. Ask him why did he choose to become an ME, instead of EE, or CpE, or Civil Engineer, etc.

Math is a cool major, and is very useful. You will be amazed by the things that a math major can do these days.
But just don’t pick a major because we said so.