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> This will signal to every student that there's a steady career in nuclear engineering. Signaling likely not required. It was an open secret at my alma mater
by metaphor 8y ago
> This will signal to every student that there's a steady career in nuclear engineering.
Signaling likely not required. It was an open secret at my alma mater that the number of students accepted into the nuclear engineering program was artificially kept low.
- arduanika 8y agoWoah...why? How? I'd be interested to hear more details. There were more interested students, but they were deterred?
- metaphor 8y agoI'm an EE but had a few close friends who completed the program. Girlfriend at the time was dissuaded towards chemical engineering...ended up doing NMR spectroscopy research as an undergrad before moving to USC for PhD. Another close friend who interned every summer at a nuclear plant in Crystal River, FL suspected the status quo was upheld to ensure graduating engineers would continue to command relatively high salaries in industy. He also mentioned how industry would swoop in on Navy submarine vets that came out of Kings Bay, but I'm not certain those guys competed for the same plant positions that professional engineers did.