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Why I left the nano engineering program super fast. Come to find out, nobody hires for that. You can go into research only. While a traditional engineering degr
by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Why I left the nano engineering program super fast. Come to find out, nobody hires for that. You can go into research only. While a traditional engineering degree can do research or thousands of jobs.
- throwawaymath 8y agoA traditional engineering degree at the BSc level does not do research. Any exceptions you can think of are rare and have more to do with the individual than the degree.
- 3rdAccount 8y agoI disagree. You can do research in industry. It just probably won't be the kind that gets published. But yea, I meant to point out that after a Masters or PhD, there is still a ton of research in EE, civE, ME, chemE, biomed, and even IE, but there is also tons of industry jobs. Not so much in the fad fields. Even nanotech companies would rather a chemE.
- PascLeRasc 8y agoThis degree is meant for the ML high school virtuosos who know they'll be going on to grad school, just like a pre-med program. All the seven people from my undergrad's engineering physics program are in PhD programs now and I'd suspect your nanoengineering program has a similar trajectory.
- 3rdAccount 8y agoYea, but the problem is a lot of students coming out of highschool don't know that and don't learn it until it is too late. That needs to be explained up front.