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Servius_Fulvius
United States947 Posts
On June 15 2010 04:12 Art.FeeL wrote: As of myself, I love physics but I think that it would be pretty useless to study just physics coz I am more of a type of person that is interested in how the nature works so he could use it to improve human life. And how about finding job? I am sure that every engineer will probably find a work, but which are do you think will have the major breakthrough in the next 10 years? Please discuss, I am really interested in your opinion. EDIT: I changed the list, coz I made some mistakes If you love physics, you should definitely see if there isn't some facet in that massive field that fits what you're looking for. When I got out of high school I knew I loved chemistry and thought very hard about becoming a chemist. Life didn't work out that way and I went for chemical engineering. I did so because of the love of chemistry and the love of problem solving. It took over a year to find out what a chemical engineer actually did and another 6 months for me to accept it. A lot of chem-e's with bachelor degrees go on to work in a process plant while fast-tracking their way into plant management. I was skeptical about this until my internship. A process engineer just seemed to be a stepping stone where all I was really interested in was becoming a scientist. For the longest time it looked like I was in the wrong field. At the end of that second year I took a course on environmental engineering and found that I loved the idea of pollution abatement and environmental cleanup. Like a lot of people in their early 20's I wanted to save the world and this was a place I saw myself doing it. I took as many chemical engineering classes on the enviornment as I could. My senior year, I finally found where I fit in. I went to a conference where numerous individuals lectured about green-collared jobs. Setting my sights on this, I decided to take a full fifth year to minor in environmental studies. I went to the conference again and at one point got into a conversation where Ifelt "Wow, these peopel have interests just like me!". They were all University professors researching the environment. Several months later I apply for grad school and in the fall I start work in a 5-year PhD program at a school with two professors studying abatement and remediation. So why this personal diatribe? Engineering majors aren't entirely what you think they are. There's a huge gap between what they tell you in school and what the job is really like. A lot of these field of study aren't even described very well and when reality hits you may not like it. Nevertheless, if you love physics I'd suggest looking into electrical, mechanical, and nuclear engineering as they deal with phsyics the most. If you want to improve human life you need to look into potential employers as much as possible when the time comes. Remember that the goal of business is to make money, not necessarily improve human life (as I found with the environment). In the next few years alternative energy is going to become huge, at least in the chemical and mechanical engineering fields. | ||
Chill
Calgary25981 Posts
On June 15 2010 14:54 Art.FeeL wrote: No need for you to answer if you don't know how to contribute. That's why I opened it as a blog Haha fantastic way of interpreting this. Best of luck. | ||
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