<p>I'm a incoming freshman who's planning on transferring into engineering after my freshman year (I'm currently listed as a bio-major). Somehow, I have an affinity for jobs that will allow me to travel. Don't get me wrong, I do understand that if I find a job that forces me to go out of the country, most of it will be for business reasons only and I probably won't get to go sight-seeing, but just being able to interact with people on an international scale and taking a break from the daily grind of going to the same office with the same people is appealing to me. I'm not sure if this is a legit reason, but even if I can't go sight-seeing I still think traveling internationally would be exciting.</p>
<p>In case my interests matter (which they should), I find EE and Chem E to be the most appealing. With EE, I would probably enjoy doing computer hardware stuff, and with Chem E, I'd like to work with energy (although I hear this is a dying field), or any of the biomedical applications. </p>
<p>So is there a job that involves international travel, and is somewhat lucrative at the same time within engineering? And I am willing to go for a MBA or JD if that's what is necessary.</p>
<p>The OP in that thread asked pretty much the same thing as you. </p>
<p>In addition to what I mentioned on that thread, I know a lot of the work going on the building design and construction in Dubai is being done by international firms. In recent years, it has become more and more common for civil engineering projects to be composed of teams from all over the world. My research in grad school was about international multi-cultural work actually.</p>
<p>A friend of mine was a chemE major and is now working for a large pharmaceutical company. In a couple of years, they're sending her to South America to do work at some of their other sites. This isn't typical though... they only send a couple of people every year, but the opportunity exists, at least in this company. </p>
<p>Not sure where you're going to school, but if it's prestigious enough to be recruited by management consulting firms, that may be the way to go if you're willing to go outside of engineering. A friend of a friend of mine has pretty much travelled the world, all while on business.</p>
<p>There may be some EE jobs that will allow you to travel, though I'm personally not aware of any.</p>
<p>I'm going to UT-Austin. It's a state school (although a decent one), so I doubt it'll get anywhere with MC. Anyone else? Thanks for the link btw.</p>
<p>The oil industry certainly has the largest number of expats working in other countries. It's usually "medium term" (2-5 years) assignments. You can make a ton of money, it's certainly not 'easy'. </p>
<p>You generally have three choices.
1) Places where you catch a cold.
2) Places where you catch heat stroke.
3) Places where you catch a bullet.</p>
<p>I am a recent graduate of UT-Austin and received many consulting firm offers. Any engineering major is recruited for consulting at UT and the highly ranked Petroleum engineering program can also yield ample international opportunities.</p>
<p>well, I'm not so sure if the oil/petroleum industry is for me. It's a declining field (and yes, I know there will still be some uses for it), and I don't really want to work in Alaska lol. </p>
<p>If Engineering doesn't have jobs that will allow me to go international, what about business itself?</p>
<p>In my graduating class, there were many engineers who worked abroad that were not in the Petroleum engineering field. For example, some went to France to work with Air Liquide, others to Japan to work at Merryl Lynch and a few went to London to do consulting. </p>
<p>My experience at UT has taught me that engineers are able to secure a very wide variety of jobs, including the lucrative business jobs (I-banking/consulting) and are heavily recruited.</p>
<p>My dad was an industrial engineer and used to travel to the USSR, all over Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Japan, North America, a occasionally to Asia. It was kinda scary each time he'd get arrested by the KGB, but I know he really loved the work.</p>
<p>racin, what type of work specifically did your dad do? I think industrial engineering is the one where you try and optimize stuff, but what industry within it (like engineering, money, etc.) was he in if you don't mind me asking?</p>
<p>He was involved with setting up new factories and helping organize large scale public works projects. I think it's similar to what Tom Hanks was doing at the beginning of Cast Away. He worked for a fairly large company for a long time, then joined a smaller company he and a few friends founded in order to do similar work (since their branch at the former company was being restructured into nonexistence). Sadly, a few of his coworkers were too trustworthy of their Russian business associates, and a few million dollars wound up getting embezzled, forcing them out of business. :(</p>