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if you're a civil grad in the next year or two, you're dead in the water. stay in school til government hires again

reduce it to a system of first order ODE with initial conditions. then solve them using Runge Kutta degree four algorithm. I have no idea what this equation represents, maybe some complicated wave equations, or circuits. If you really want I can probably find the algorithm from my numerical...

wow that sucks. But how many hours a week do you have to work to constitute as continuing engineering experience?

Thanks Benbo, most of my work consists of designing seismic anchorages for large equipments and residential buildings, I find very little satisfaction in doing that, the "design" are done by softwares, I find the work quite tedious and not challenging. I go to Stanford, the job market is too...

project engineers actually make 75k. no OT pay, 2 weeks off a year, we're a 23 man firm and only 2 of the assoiates are in the profit sharing plan. End of year bonus is usually a few thousand dollars. Please tell me, what should a PE with 5 years of experience make, what about SE with 10 yrs of...

Thank you everyone for the response. I look around in my firm, and see registered SE's with 10 years of experience making 70k a year, while putting in 50+ hrs a week, the principal nets 110k a year, and drives a camry. personally I have bigger aspirations than that. The work I do is moderately...

I just graduated and working for an consulting firm. The pay sucks, I work 10+ hrs a day sometimes weekend. I'm not sure if this is something I want to do for the rest of my life. I'm a masters student, I'm thinking about taking a few chemistry classes and apply to dental or medical school...

I'm an EIT at a structural consulting firm. The principal and associates don't run any calcs, they don't even detail drawings, and they make the bigger bucks. You're ahead of the learning curve, and most of the "design" in my firm is done by softwares and spread sheets, the only hand calc I do...

If I get my masters degree in a year while working 20 hrs a week (assistant/intern engineer), will I have the experience required to take the PE exam? or do I need 2 years of non overlapping experience? got EIT and BS Civil Engineering all that good stuff. thanks!!

I'm a recent college grad, I have no idea where the stimulus money is going, cause there is no jobs. I just want to remind folks to vote for prop 13 on June 8th. Prop 13 states "Provides that construction to seismically retrofit buildings will not trigger reassessment of property tax value. Set...

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I'm heading to graduate school for a MS in structural engineering. The school do quite a lot of research in risk analysis, this is the first time I've heard that term before. Can anyone tell me exactly what it is? what are the job prospects for structural engineers doing probabilistic risk analysis?

I suggest studying the reference manual inside out, don't give up!

I'm a structural engineering student, my professor told me it would be beneficial to learn one of the programming languages. which one is the most beneficial to learn? C# Visual basic 6.0 or Visual Basic .NET ?

Update: I finally found an internship in Bay Area, CA. It only took me 3 months and applying to about 15-20 different firms. Opportunities are out there, best of luck to everyone.

these are great suggestions! great ideas! thanks a ton guys!

Hello, I'm designing a parking structure for a hospital as my senior project. I'm going to use one way prestress slab and beams, and reinforce concrete column and footings design. The problem is, another group is also designing a parking structure for an airport, so I need to make my parking...

I took the GRE last week, and got 790 Quantitative and 390 Verbal. The vocabularies were ridiculous and the reading comprehension was a bunch of nonsense. I'm pondering whether to take the exam again or not :(

Thanks for everyone's advice, I guess my best bet is to a- get the hell out of California once I graduate. or b- go to a graduate school and wait out this hard time. I've always been told that CE's will always have a job and it's somewhat recession proof, apparently that's not the case. My...

I looked mostly around Bay Area and Central Valley.