Students that need to interview an engineer for a school assignment

• Please use the list of engineers willing to be interviewed in the sidebar, under Resources.

• r/engineering maintains another list in their sidebar.

• Making a new post to request interviews is not allowed and will be removed on sight.

Students seeking advice on college major

If this is you, read the following articles BEFORE posting:

1. "What's your average day like as an engineer?"

2. "Does it matter which university I attend for my undergraduate degree?"

3. "What's the demand for engineers? / Is engineering going to be obsolete in X years? (U.S. Only)"

Making a new thread asking what engineering major you should pick is against the rules and it will be removed. This is to prevent AskEngineers from getting spammed with the same questions every week.

Only AFTER you've done your due diligence and come up with specific followup questions should you consider making a new post.

The only exception to this rule is if you're asking about a discipline that isn't well represented in the wiki threads.

Exceptions are allowed for the following disciplines:

Last Update: March 2020

Industrial Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Ocean, Marine, and Maritime Engineering

Nuclear Engineering

Systems Engineering

Petroleum (Oil & Gas) Engineering

Background

Every year, AskEngineers gets flooded with hundreds of posts by students asking for advice on which engineering major to pick.

To address this problem, the mod team decided way back in 2014 to host a yearly thread to collect the experiences of engineers from various industries. This helps students learn what engineers do at work, and also gives engineers insight into what their counterparts do in other jobs/industries.

If you have any career-related questions, I highly encourage you to post them in the latest r/engineering Weekly Career Discussion Thread, where engineers will give you advice and feedback on your job hunt if you ask for it. A new one is posted every Monday morning.

The weekly thread is a good place if you:

• need career advice, feedback on your résumé, or other career-related guidance
• are asking about salary, job demand, switching industries, etc.
• are a student asking about engineering majors and/or universities

Additional Resources

1. The r/engineering Quarterly Hiring Thread is a good place to look for jobs in addition to the usual job search engines. A new one is posted on the first Monday of every quarter.

2. If you're interested in Computer Science or a career in software development, go to /r/cscareerquestions.

3. "How do I figure out how much salary to ask for? (U.S. Only)"

4. "How do I negotiate my salary?"