Why do engineers with low gpa (under 3.0) think they are impressive.

GLOBALTRAVELER
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:13:17 +0000

VTBoy,

Maybe these weren’t the hardest stat courses, but for my M.S. in Engineering, I had to take graduate level:


Calc-based Stat/Probability course
Experimental Design
Statistical Quality Control
Taguchi Methods
Software Reliability Engineering


I breezed through all of those and they mostly involved looking up some values in a table (well the Taguchi used Qualitek software). I got a 4.0 GPA out of those graduate stat courses.

Why am I mentioning this?..I didn’t have a 3.0 GPA as an undergrad.

Also, engineering and computer science is different for the arts. You interview for a job in the arts and you gotta go through 4 rounds of interviews, show off an artistic portfolio and be the best candidate in a 500-mile radius.

In computer science, especially if in the “hot areas” of I.T., all you do is e-mail a resume, do a 10-min phone technical screen, have one formal interview (doesn’t even have to be in a suit) and the offer letter is FedEX to you house.

So a 2.5 in engineering is not bad at all. You will still get hired.