<p>is it okay to write that you have a M.S. Structural Engineering, when really you have a M.S. Civil Engineering, and your program was in Structural Engineering?</p>
<p>...in the context of say, writing resumes, or perhaps your linkedin profile.....</p>
<p>what do you guys think?</p>
<p>Mine was just, “M.S. Engineering,” so I wrote “M.S. Engineering (Structures).”</p>
<p>ic. thanks!</p>
<p>any other opinions?</p>
<p>If your concentration or thesis topic was within Structural Engineering, I don’t see a problem. Problems would occur if you claimed you were say a Petroleum engineer or Naval engineer.</p>
<p>Throw in “invented the column,” that should impress them.</p>
<p>i assume you’re joking…</p>
<p>and yeah nshah, i believe my transcript will say M.S. Civil Engineering, but i’m in the structural engineering program/concentration ([Program</a> Overview](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/group/strgeo/overview.html]Program”>http://www.stanford.edu/group/strgeo/overview.html)) …</p>
<p>My degree simply says I have a degree in engineering from the school of engineering at so and so university. It says nothing about me studying comp sci.</p>
<p>eh, I don’t think it will matter if you put down structural, but if you are really that concerned, just put down M.S. Civil Engineering and then on the next line say something like Concentration on Structural Engineering. Also, you will eventually list your thesis title there anyway, so it will be pretty clearly a structural emphasis based on that, so it probably isn’t that big of a deal if it doesn’t say Structural Engineering.</p>
<p>You could always write. Civil: focus in Structual Engineering.</p>
<p>I have a poly sci background and did the international relations option (but didn’t show up on degree/transcript). I just typed on resume Poly Sci: Int’l Relations focus.</p>
<p>yeah i know i figure i cud just write “focus: structural engineering” at the end. </p>
<p>BUT i like “MS Structural Engineering” — it looks so much cooler! haha</p>
<p>^^^^ Oh, that would be fine to write, too! People know what you mean.</p>
<p>Tip to those of you who will be sending out resumes by mail: Please make sure you include proper postage! Today we got a 6-page resume from someone, and we have to pay the postman 17 cents in postage due! The guy also listed a lot of the projects he’s worked on, but didn’t list former employers! It annoyed me so much that I e-mailed him. You can’t be that sloppy in this economy and hope to get a job. </p>
<p>It’s also surprising how often we get resumes with typos and spelling errors. Employers DO notice these things!</p>
<p>University of Illinois’s degree in structural engineering is technically an “MS in Civil Engineering” and then you say that your concentration was in structural engineering but nobody calls it that. They just say you got a masters in structural engineering from Illinois. You apply to the structural engineering program, you go through the structural engineering program, you have very little contact with anybody outside of the structural engineering program… It’s a structural engineering degree.</p>
<p>So yeah, if it’s something like that, it’s okay. Just make sure you truthfully represent the general nature of your degree and correctly imply what your competencies are. If you got an MS where most of your classes were in water resources and you took a lone concrete class for giggles, you can’t paint yourself as a structural engineer.</p>
<p>oh great, thanks alot for the reassurance aibarr!</p>
<p>yeah, i’m in stanford’s “structural engineering and geomechanics” program of their CEE department. yeah, most of my classes are structural engineering =)</p>