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Uni Stuff => Faculties => Engineering => Topic started by: squance on December 22, 2007, 12:32:46 pm
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Im battling between Civil, Chemical and Software...
They all sound so good to me
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I'm still undecided. Thats whats so great about the first year at Monash
EDIT:
Wow!!! a female doing engineering!!!
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I'm applying for BEng/Bcomm at monash. Does any one know if the clearly-in (2008) enter will rise significantly, as melbourne will no longer provide it? For 2007 the clearly in was 95.05
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I'm applying for BEng/Bcomm at monash. Does any one know if the clearly-in (2008) enter will rise significantly, as melbourne will no longer provide it? For 2007 the clearly in was 95.05
yeah i might be doing the same course as you. more places = roughly same enter hopefully.
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im planning to do engineering thru commerce at UMELB :D
then my masters of engineering majoring in chemical :)
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mechanical engineering :D
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I went to some chemical engineering experience thing at monash and that helped me decide to go for chemical. But I'm still not absolutely certain that it's what I want
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Hmm...I have narrowed it down to chemical and software engineering now....
Im leaning in more towards software since I like computers....but I like chemistry too...
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Software engineering can create big bucks if you couple your knowledge with math and innovation :) (eg. Advanced Audit software for the Big 4 or a physics engine for a game)
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chemical engineering! then follow that with majoring in Petroleum engineering<< ahh the best job man can have (money/Power and soon the women) edit: taken from scarface :D
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Huh? O..k..
Petroleum "engineering" is apart (or subset) or Chemical Engineers. Many chem engineers work in oil giants such as ExxonMobil.
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AEROSPACE!!!!ONEONE
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Aerospace would be cool!
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I'm not sure how stable the IT industry is, since most employers prefer to outsource their jobs. I'm not sure if the same applies for software engineering though.
And with chemical engineering, you could get into all sorts of fun industries, like cosmetics, plastics and petroleum. If you're interested in aerospace, you'd be working on the more exciting parts: composite materials, temperature resistant panels, etc. Flight trajectories would get boring after a while :P
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I'm not sure how stable the IT industry is, since most employers prefer to outsource their jobs. I'm not sure if the same applies for software engineering though.
And with chemical engineering, you could get into all sorts of fun industries, like cosmetics, plastics and petroleum. If you're interested in aerospace, you'd be working on the more exciting parts: composite materials, temperature resistant panels, etc. Flight trajectories would get boring after a while :P
But chemistry as a subject to study in uni is hard is it?........I don't think I could survive....
Think about all the stoichometry!!
How advanced is the chem in first year uni compared to VCE 3/4 just wondering?
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haha. What about Financial Enginnering :p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_engineering
http://www.iafe.org/
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=financial+engineering&btnG=Search&meta=
hahaaha. ;)
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The level of maths is about the same, maybe a little bit harder in semester 2 when you do kinetics of a reaction (you have to understand a bit of calculus).
I think you'd get used to it though.
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I'm trying to decide between Materials and Chemical streams. I'd like to do something in nano or biotech in the future, and for the moment, the nano substream of the chemical eng stream looks attractive.
could someone add the option for materials engineering to the poll please?
Moderator Action: Added Material Engineering by Request, from AppleXY
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im stuck between civil and electrical.. civil = good job opporunities but electrical will be fun but hard studying..
im not really sure what each really are..
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Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and natural built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings.
Careers
There is no one typical career path for civil engineers. Most engineering graduates start with jobs of low responsibility, and as they prove their competence, are given more and more responsible tasks, but within each subfield of civil engineering, and even within different segments of the market within each branch, the details of a career path can vary. In some fields and in some firms, entry-level engineers are put to work primarily monitoring construction in the field, serving as the "eyes and ears" of more senior design engineers; while in other areas, entry-level engineers end up performing the more routine tasks of analysis or design and interpretation. More senior engineers can move into doing more complex analysis or design work, or management of more complex design projects, or management of other engineers, or into specialized consulting, including forensic engineering.
Engineers are in high demand at banks, financial institutions and management consultancies because of their analytical skills.
Electrical engineering — sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering — is an engineering field that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply. The field now covers a range of sub-studies including power, electronics, control systems, signal processing and telecommunications.
I guess it is hard to conceive which one you will like without knowing the sort of maths and physics involved with them. All engineers will require a common base of applied mathematics, and in the University of Melbourne, all streams of engineering have a streamlined maths course for the first 2 years.
Physics-wise, I believe electrical engineering will focus largely on the core concepts of electro-magnetism, and probably a brief knowledge of materials is required to know about conductivity, and resistance losses. This means that study of heat flows would probably be required as well. In civil engineering, I suspect the concepts you learn will be mainly Newtonian mechanics, with study focused on material strength: density, tensile strength, etc.
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I'm not sure how stable the IT industry is, since most employers prefer to outsource their jobs. I'm not sure if the same applies for software engineering though.
And with chemical engineering, you could get into all sorts of fun industries, like cosmetics, plastics and petroleum. If you're interested in aerospace, you'd be working on the more exciting parts: composite materials, temperature resistant panels, etc. Flight trajectories would get boring after a while :P
Ridiculously stable. They don't hand out a whole load of (in my course alone, 28 of them) huge scholarships to Bus. Sys. (and now CS/SE @ Monash as well) students for nothing...the demand is extremely high, yet supply of graduates is very low in IT atm.
http://infotech.monash.edu.au/courses/2008/undergraduate/2770/ibl-stream.html
Outsourcing tends to happen for entry level jobs (data entry, helpdesk etc)...even then, companies have started to realise that it's better to insource them.
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Aerospace sounds pro.
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civil for the win! If i dont get above 98 ill probably go Melbourne Uni for Engineering, from what i understand after talkin to a rep from Engineering Australia, it doesn't necessarily matter what uni, jus as long as u have good results and willin to work etc.. all that stuff
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software engineering ftw :D
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ok i take it back
electrical engineering ftw!
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social engineering for me
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electrical engineering might be too hard :s
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My Dad is a mechanical engineer, and everyday he comes home more depressed than ever. I bet he is enjoying the money though. :P
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do you know why? is it boring? lol
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Lol, I don't think it's boring. I just think that because my dad has been in the business for years that it has heavily impacted on him. I can guarantee you, when he started, he loved being an engineer, but over time, I guess like other things, he has become too familiar with it, and hence, becomes depressed from it.
But don't let this discourage you. :)
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mechanical , civil or electrical?
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mechanical , civil or electrical?
lol same here, i know that i want to do at least one of them but im still not sure which. from what i heard so far they all have a high employee rate which is good but i heard electrical apparently is really hard in years 3 + 4? :S
any suggestions as to which is best?
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Can someone who has/is doing aerospace eng give an opinion on how they find it, similar to what they expected etc?
Thanks
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My Dad is a mechanical engineer, and everyday he comes home more depressed than ever. I bet he is enjoying the money though. :P
Sorry to revive this thread, but after 1 year of engineering I became depressed. It really is like physics/maths with the fun cut out!
It's actually quite common for eng students (particularly electrical) to drop out and major in maths, physics or mathematical physics. This year I spoke to a physics PhD student and before physics he was doing electrical engineering and said it's all just debugging, etc.
Basically to work out whether you are a scientist or an engineer, you need to experience both. Nobody but you can tell you whether you are either an engineer or scientist.
But if you like studying concepts because you want to know why something is the way it is, you are probably a scientist. If you like studying concepts in science so you could use this to improve something you want to design, then your an engineer.
As a rule, engineers hate theory and love practical work, whereas scientists are the opposite.