The mine again

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45 minutes ago, DADAKOTA said:

Guess I got lucky then.

I'm two out of 3 and the third is a senior at Rolla with two summer jobs since internships got cancelled.  So I'm thankful because I've seen what @fishinwrench is talking about.

 

[DADAKOTA]

Good luck to the Rolla senior.  Graduated from UMR in 83 long before the name change.

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19 minutes ago, DADAKOTA said:

Good luck to the Rolla senior.  Graduated from UMR in 83 long before the name change.

Craziest thing about Rolla.  It was the first school she visited and said this is it.  She wouldn't even visit another school.  My wife was all sideways because she wanted do the college tour of schools but she wouldn't go.  She's packing up this week to head back.  She finished her major in 3.5 years (engineering management) and needs another year for her minor in Information Systems..

 

 

[Gavin]

Good for your daughter. She has a great career path ahead of her.

[Devan S.]

Engineering Management is a good route. I was given a lot of flack at Rolla for taking the "easy" way out between 2008 and 2012 probably still the same stigma today. The hardcore mechanical/electrical guys all said we weren't real engineers.

The benefit is you aren't at all locked into anything specific. I use my EMAN coursework 10 to 1 in the real world vs. sitting behind a desk doing true core engineering work. 

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57 minutes ago, Devan S. said:

Engineering Management is a good route. I was given a lot of flack at Rolla for taking the "easy" way out between 2008 and 2012 probably still the same stigma today. The hardcore mechanical/electrical guys all said we weren't real engineers.

The benefit is you aren't at all locked into anything specific. I use my EMAN coursework 10 to 1 in the real world vs. sitting behind a desk doing true core engineering work. 

She didn't want to do job site work like civil and did not want any factory or industrial work either.  She'll follow her mom into the communications industry.  She had a shot at an internship at Comcast but Covid ended that.  

[Gumboot]

One of mine graduated from there 8 years ago as a nuclear engineer, then decided he didn't want to work in that field.  He's a mechanical engineer with a company here in KC.  If you don't have a job coming out of that school you ain't trying.

[ColdWaterFshr]

Taking my son back to S&T on Saturday.  He'll be a sophomore.  Hoping he passes Calculus and Chemistry this semester.  Summer school for those two classes was a disaster and he had to drop.  A bit worried he might "math-out" as they say.  

Not too worried about it.  Mostly looking forward to some BBQ at Randy's Roadkill. . . 

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Gumboot said:

One of mine graduated from there 8 years ago as a nuclear engineer, then decided he didn't want to work in that field.  He's a mechanical engineer with a company here in KC.  If you don't have a job coming out of that school you ain't trying.

He might be working with my kid.  Is he with Designer Group?

[slosh]

I had a blast for the 2.5 years I was there. Gradumucated back in Dec 97.