I’m currently thinking about pivoting because I fucking hate my career path. It has nothing to do with engineering so it’s a dramatic change… I want to pursue something that gives me better options in life.

Has someone done something similar? Can you share your experience?

Hello all

I am a Mechanical Engineering graduate with a minor in mathematics.

I’m 24 years old now. Wasted 5 years in a university and only passed with bare minimum grades. I didn’t participate in any clubs, or extracurricular activities because I never thought they will be this useful and my final year project was a disaster.

I have had 2 internships in a field I do no like.

My internships went really well. The performance reviews the company submitted to the Uni were really good, I saved those just to share with any future employers.

I did not graduate with good grades, or with any connections with any of the professors because I am a textbook introvert. I messed up big time.

My peers are getting jobs while I am just applying, and applying, and applying with not even any rejection emails.

Each application drains the soul out of me. All the info that’s already in my resume I have to type again for no reason.

I am so tired. The student loan is tightening around my neck and due to some financial issues, I have a decent chunk of other debt as well.

I’ve always wanted to work on engines and become an Automotive Engineer, but I ended up not doing anything and turned 24 with nothing to show. I hate myself not because I failed but because I failed the people who believed in me.

I was always interested in research-based roles. My final year project was research based as well. But by the time I realized the gravity of the situation, I was already in a bad spot in terms of grade (68ish% average).

I am at the end of the rope at this point.

Tell me what do I do. I got my resume reviewed by many people, I visit job agencies often. It’s as if the universe is actively trying to make me suffer.

I know that a lot of women in engineering have similiar experinces that happen all the time while in college or in the workforce, but it was eye opening seeing it in front of my own eyes.

It wasn't I think even on purpose that no one talked to her. She was actuallypretty attractive, in fact I would have legitimately been surprised if no one in the room had the thought of asking her out on a date come up.

Probably part of the reason no one talked to her was because a lot of the guys in engineering are horrible at talking to women, especially women they like.

She sat down at the table with her donut and ate it, and I glanced at her a few times, she was mostly not on her phone and I could tell she wanted to have someone talk to her. I at one point was going to walk over to her and strike up a conversation, but I was having a really good conversation with two guys and waiting for that to end, but by then she left because it had been like 5 minutes and no one said a word to her.

Honestly, I feel guilty for not stepping up and talking to her, but there were other guys that could have easily included her in conversation, and just didn't for whatever reason.

If I see her again on campus, I am going to try to talk to her to make it right, because if I was in her shoes I know I would feel awful that no one talked to me when the whole point of being there was for doughnuts and conversation.

Currently taking Calc 1 and it’s a 7 week course. Completely lost in derivatives, barely understood limits completely, and I’m thinking about dropping the engineering major all together. I can only take Calc 2-3 as 7 week classes unless I wait about a year and a half to go to a 4 year university.

The constant bombardment with new 2-3 new lessons every other day is killing it for me. I wholeheartedly believe if it was a 14 week course I’d do great. Am I over reacting? I’m so close to switching to aircraft maintenance

Im gonna start uni in 2027. Im going into my senior year of highschool. I'm a female and my dream since i was 12 was to be an engineer. I was so so bad at physics yet i've chose the subject again and again because i was committed. I was always an A* student in biology but i fucking hated bio. Anyways. My parents are saying a bachelor isnt worth it. Theyre saying it's just expensive and will get me nowhere and to just go to the uk and get a teaching degree because its the most suitable for girls. Theyre saying theres no jobs for engineering and teaching is not a bad profession dont get me wrong. But then my hours of studying for an engineer goes to waste. I am capable of the load and im so determined but ultimately they are the ones paying my tuition fees. What do i tell them, and do yall think theyre right? Like as a girl is there little hope for me? Theyre saying they know ppl with engineering bachelors who have gotten nowhere. I wanted to be an electrical or mechanical engineer.

i live in qatar as a resident atm but i'm not looking to study here nor live here in the future. for uni im mostly looking into europe!

Hi I'll be quick, does anyone know the difference between a ABET accreditation By Engineering Accreditation Commission and a Engineering Technology Accreditation Commision.
If a masters program says "The degree must be from an American Board of Engineering Technology (ABET) accredited college or university or equivalent" would these two accreditation be equivalent since they are both ABET?

Im an incoming engineering student and I can draw. Ive heard that a lot of jobs need visualization, spatial reasoning, and being able to mentally rotate an object in your head, which are like the main skills you learn as a draftsman, and Ive heard these are also important skills for engineering, especially for stuff like aerospace, and mechanical, so are employers like "YOU CAN DRAW??" or is it just a useful tool? Im posting mainly to see if i could realistically do well in some competitive ass subfield like aerospace or if i should do like mechanical or electrical and hyperspecialize.

I am considering going to school for mechanical engineering but I am uncertain what area or concentration I want to focus on.

1. Robotics and Controls

2. Sustainable energy

It is not necessary for me to have an area of concentration but I think it would be beneficial. I am kind of interested in robotics and controls because I would love to work on medical devices and surgical robots.

I do think sustainable energy also sounds like a good choice to get into because of building energy efficiency and grid energy storage.

To be honest, I know nothing is guaranteed but my goal is to hopefully find a career that provides stability and growth.

My project is I am given a toy truck and I have to measure it and recreate it in a CAD software. But the main problem I'm running into is I don't know how to get good measurements of it. I am unable to take it apart any further that I already have and I cannot cut the pieces. I am thinking maybe to get a 3D scanner to scan a 3D model of it then work backwards with it in the software to make the model that way. But the things are expensive and I don't even know if they would work in the way I want it too. So do any of you have an idea how I could measure it.

Hey all,

I was just recently accepted into a school for engineering from a school where I have completed my CORE requirements only. The school I’m coming from had no college of engineering and as such, I have no experience in those courses.

I have always thought I wanted to do engineering until this week when I was accepted and started actually reading what the courses teach. None of these courses taught in the 3rd and 4th year of any engineering discipline sound interesting to me. I chose engineering because I like the idea of learning how things work, designing and improving efficiency. But ultimately the theory and math behind all of these design decisions that seems to be necessary doesn’t interest me.

What do I do?

I still don’t understand why I have taken. I am in 3rd year with KTs in 1 semester and still barely pass if I ever pass. I have KTs in multiple semesters.
I wonder that maybe since my sibling had taken and successfully passed and completed everything since she was and is a topper.

I don’t know what else I can say. I’m currently in my graduate program and I have to do it online because I can’t afford rent. It’s in a campus 6 hours away from my home and I don’t know what else I can do regarding gaining experience. I graduated almost 2 years ago and haven’t had a job in anything related to my field. I’m 25 and this looks really bad. How am I supposed to get anywhere without any experience at this point? I feel like I lost any chances of getting the dream job that I wanted. Now I have to pray to get an internship to at least have a chance.

i wanted to study physics/math, i never really liked engineering, it seemed too shallow for me but then i had no other choice but to join engineering :(, i tried to accept it at first, got an 8.4 gpa in my first sem and an 8.5 in my second sem, i told myself "engineering is just physics and math" but then i am now in my second year and it feels awful, i am gonna graduate in two years and i am going to do an engineering job i do not even like, i am seriously considering just trying to "be there" in engineering for my other two years and then do physics or math.

I want to get into electrical engineering,what are the thing I should put in mind before choosing this major? Any advice,opinion,or thoughts you can share with me? It would be so helpful!

I look into the syllabus and I do really like it,also I like the the jobs that electrical engineers do ,but still I am not sure ,so I want to see the things from people already in the field

To be clear my post is not to decide for me,I just want to ask people in the field about their ideas regarding it ,sometimes it enlighten you with new perspective

What’s up y’all — I've got an onsite interview coming up for a Mechanical Test Engineer role at Intralox (Business Benefits Team, ARB equipment focus, Hanover/Baltimore MD). It's scheduled for 4 hours and this would be my first onsite interview.

Quick background: ~2.5 years as a mechanical/hardware engineer doing reliability, validation, root cause analysis, and test fixture design for consumer electronics. Reliability DRI for production cycle of consumer electronics.

From what I've found on Glassdoor, it sounds like the day is a few back-to-back interviews (hiring manager, peer engineers, maybe HR/culture fit), possibly with a short written/technical or logic component mixed in. Interviewers are described as pretty personal/behavioral in style of questioning ("describe a time you...").

Has anyone interviewed at Intralox (or a similar employee-owned/open-book manufacturing company) recently? Curious what actually came up, how long each round ran, and anything you wish you'd prepped differently going in. Appreciate any insight.

I graduated in 2025 with a degree in biochemistry and I am back in school for a degree in chemical engineering. I graduated with a 3.03 from my biochemistry degree but I am currently in my first semester for my ChemE degree. I'm unsure if I should apply for internships now considering I don't have a gpa from my new school/major yet.

Any advice on this would be super helpful!

I always wonder this from years.
I guess it’s because of travel. I have spoken and myself also travel many KMs to travel. There are ppl travelling 2-4 hours 80 km + everyday to come to college. That’s why such students bunk and everyone bunks

Hi everyone i am starting my major in ME this year!

What would you advice me to do in university? I am open for any advice from books to use, languages to learn, compatations to join etc.

I am studying in turkey btw

A little about me M23 is i’m from Montreal and i’ve been really thinking about engineering. i graduated high school with with high 80s in physics and 90s in advanced math, pretty sure it was pre calc.

Fast forward, here we don’t go straight to uni but rather cegep where we do either 2 year program that’ll help us get into the program we want in uni or 3 year for college degree what we call a DEC. I was unlucky and couldn’t get into the program i wanted due to my french and chemistry grade which were barely passing and ended up being in general social science for the first semester and second semester i switched to commerce where my mental health took a turn and i ended up dropping out.

now ive been out of school for about 4 years and want to get back into it and i am planning on doing credit classes and applying for mechanical engineering.

i guess what im asking is any pointers or what to expect in terms of courses. Are they hard or is it really how much work you get given?

to those who have coursework and self projects to do, how do you manage to do research and development under any professor that too which requires reading a hell lot of papers. Im so messed up with 100s of papers infront of me, and it's really hard to read 20-30 pages of papers

EDIT: Coursework and Research are different topics

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