Recent content by daric soldar

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There aren't enough pure physics research positions in the world for every single physics graduate. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's just the way the world works. Supply and demand. There are many more positions in engineering to go around. Once you get outside the comfortable...

Engineers the "Oompah Loompahs of Science"? Has anyone seen "The Big Bang Theory" episode where Sheldon basically loses his job, so he follows his other friends and tries to help them out with their work? When he goes to Howard's lab with the other engineers, he refers to them as "Oompah...

In my opinion, not everyone has to go to college to be successful. An entrepreneur doesn't have to be a Business college graduate. A painter or comic book artist doesn't have to be an Art graduate. However, some fields require you have a degree for obvious legal reasons. For instance, you...

Very few universities have a dedicated "software engineering" degree. At my local university, everyone took the same core computer science classes and could specialize in several fields, such as networking, security, software engineering, etc. This is most likely the case with most...

First of all, what are you studying? How far do you plan to go (M.S., PhD, another professional degree such as an MBA, ME, etc.) ? I don't have all the answers, but more information would greatly help those that do :D EDIT: Sorry; missed the information you put into the title. In that case...

An award will hardly be necessary. But I could certainly use some help when I take my first introductory Nuclear Engineering course in the fall :biggrin: And if you've heard of the ludicrous "re-imagining" of the TMNT film by Michael Bay, by the same token you could say it was "Turtle Power".

My university doesn't have an aerospace undergraduate program, either. I would talk to an advisor to see if you can earn a Mechanical Engineering BS (most closely related to Aerospace Engineering than any other discipline, in my opinion) with an emphasis in Aerospace courses. You might be able...

Indiana Jones was a pill that was much easier to swallow when Lucas chalked it up to divine power. You never hear anyone debate how the Ark melted everyone's faces off, or the knight that guarded the Grail was able to live for hundreds of years. Man, sometimes I miss the '80's.

While I agree that the more theoretical subjects such as physics or math would be more difficult conceptually, I feel like the work load as an ME student is incredibly high. Your post only confirms this, jehan. It kinda makes sense, though, doesn't it? You wouldn't drive a car designed by a...

I work with a lot of MPE's at my job. We're typically at the tail-end of the building process of any part. It's already been designed, and most of the kinks should already be out (although, often times there are still many to iron out). Assemblers who build the product are expected to make...

The equation was found using experimentation, finding the variables of a system that impact the lift and drag forces the most, and using dimensional analysis (basically it's mixing up variables with SI units that are known that eventually all cancel out to give you a term with no units, or a...

I'm simply a co-op engineer working with other engineers, but the two attributes I've found to be most important in other engineers I've seen are humility and dedication. If you have graduated with a BS, it proves you can figure out the types of problems you're given. But it doesn't...

One thing to consider is to continue the track you're on now and get a CivE BS degree, which is a broader degree than Nuclear Engineering (even broader degrees would be EE or ME). Simultaneously, you could either get a minor in NE (as tiperez mentioned) or go on to earn a graduate (MS or PhD)...

Like others have stated on the board, as long as the university you are attending for your undergraduate engineering degree is ABET accredited, it's not a huge deal where you go. Your graduate degree, however, will depend much more on what university you attend (especially if you want to go...