<p>Hey, </p>
<p>Title asks the question.... </p>
<p>If you have any other info on getting a engineering job, I would appreciate it if you put that info. here </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Engineering is an enormous field with a ton of different jobs available for graduates. Depending on what interests you, apply to schools with those programs. Do research on different types of engineering and then come up with a list of schools to suit the types that interest you most. When you find overlap, those are schools that would be good for applying. For example… suppose you find that you are interested in potentially doing civil engineering, petroleum engineering, bioengineering and/or chemical engineering. If you are looking in Pennsylvania, Villanova has civil and chemical; Penn has bio and chemical; Penn State has all four; Drexel has civil and chemical. If you go to Penn State, you will have the most options available to you; if you choose one type of engineering but find yourself disinterested in the field after a year, you can switch programs within a school very easily and not worry about doing a full transfer.</p>
<p>At the same time, you need to consider where you will enjoy yourself the most. You’re going to be at school 8 months out of the year, but unlike high school, you will be immersed in school. You will only have 15-20 hours of class a week, unlike the 30-35 hours in high school, but you may have a day when you have a class 9:00-10:00AM, noon-1:00PM and 6:00-9:00PM… when you are not in class, you are surrounded by students 24/7. If you don’t like your school, you will not like life for four years, and being unhappy with life for 20% of the years you are alive… no fun.</p>
<p>All that said, research programs, find out where you could see yourself, and look there. If you are just interested in money and don’t care about anything else, look at an engineering salary survey and apply to programs in that field.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response, </p>
<p>I’m pretty much fine with most schools… </p>
<p>but what are the recruiting opportunities at schools like…</p>
<p>UC-Berkely
Georgia Tech
Carnegie Mellon
Stanford
UW-Madison </p>
<p>in chemical and petroleum engineering?</p>
<p>Well, I can tell you that you won’t get anywhere in petroleum engineering at those schools except Stanford, since none of them offer the program. I can’t really speak to chemical engineering very well, though I know that Tech, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford offer good programs. At the same time, Penn also offers a terrific chem engineering program, so maybe consider that.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in petro, look at Texas A&M and Penn State. A&M is considered one of the best petroleum engineering programs in the world, and Penn State is one of the top in the United States… in fact, my best friend is graduating from PSU and was set with a $1,000 a week internship after his freshman year. It is a tremendous field (pun intended), but it is so specialized that if you don’t like it after freshman year, you really need to change majors, so I would highly recommend going to a very large school. </p>
<p>For what it is worth, if you are interested in petroleum engineering, do not be afraid of the cost of tuition at any school; the average starting salary is 90-100K straight out of college, and with only about 20 programs in the US, graduates are very highly sought after!</p>
<p>Wait, so even if you got a chemical engineering major and took a lot of petro related courses (geology, physics, fluid dynamics), you can’t get a job as a petro engineer?</p>
<p>You theoretically could, but your learning curve would be crazy, and the petroleum engineering courses are very specific: well analysis, reservoir analysis, primary extraction, secondary extraction, etc. Pursuing a petro job that petroleum engineers are seeking as a chemical engineer would be like racing in the Daytona 500 right after you got your driver’s license and never drove stick before. You could technically do it, but you’d be miles behind everybody else.</p>
<p>That said, oil companies DO look for chemical engineers, but I am presuming that you would want to go into the petro aspect of the industry. Chemical engineers are used at refineries, but they are paid pretty significantly less than the petroleum engineers. They still make a crazy amount of money (we’re talking somewhere around 70K starting), but it is nothing compared to the petroleum engineers (around 100k starting)</p>
<p>Sweet! Thank you for all the information!</p>