TonyD71502
Structural
- May 16, 2013
- 13
Greetings Eng-Tips community,
At the end of August, I will be beginning graduate school. I will be attending two classes a semester, two nights a week, while still maintaining my current engineering job. I have been out of school for almost four years now. I got my undergrad in Civil and Environmental with a concentration in structural. I have grown tired of being in front of a computer screen for 40 hours a week with no possibility of out of office work. I was considering switching gears from structural to environmental, water resources, or even construction management in hopes of getting a job upon graduation, or before graduation, that will allow me to be out in the field a lot more. What are your experiences with this? Ideally, I think, I would like to get into the oil & gas industry, the railroad, or something like the army corps of engineers. However, I don't have much perspective on these fields, I was just thinking they would be the ones that allow for the most travel/time outdoors. I am not tied down in life and am not opposed to moving for a job. I know this is a vague question and it sounds like I don't know what I want to do. I just know I don't want to be stuck behind a computer screen for the rest of my life.
Also, I have read these forums quite a lot when time permits, and I have heard many people saying that graduate school classes may not be worth while or applicable in the real world. I would like your opinion on which of the classes I have to choose from would potentially benefit me. Perhaps some of you have even taken similar ones. After weeding out the classes I know are just theory, which I've had plenty of, and the classes that I took as an undergrad, the list is as follows: Slope Stability, Engineering Geology, Pavement Design, Transportation Systems Analysis, Enviro Eng Microbiology, Enviro Eng Chemistry, Phys/Chem Principles in Enviro Eng, Sediment Transport, Construction Methods and Equipment, Construction Finance & Cost Control, Construction & Cost of Electrical Systems, Mine Ventilation, and Intro to Mining Eng. I don't know what will be available in the future semesters, so I want to get the two most worth while.
Sorry for rambling on.
Regards
At the end of August, I will be beginning graduate school. I will be attending two classes a semester, two nights a week, while still maintaining my current engineering job. I have been out of school for almost four years now. I got my undergrad in Civil and Environmental with a concentration in structural. I have grown tired of being in front of a computer screen for 40 hours a week with no possibility of out of office work. I was considering switching gears from structural to environmental, water resources, or even construction management in hopes of getting a job upon graduation, or before graduation, that will allow me to be out in the field a lot more. What are your experiences with this? Ideally, I think, I would like to get into the oil & gas industry, the railroad, or something like the army corps of engineers. However, I don't have much perspective on these fields, I was just thinking they would be the ones that allow for the most travel/time outdoors. I am not tied down in life and am not opposed to moving for a job. I know this is a vague question and it sounds like I don't know what I want to do. I just know I don't want to be stuck behind a computer screen for the rest of my life.
Also, I have read these forums quite a lot when time permits, and I have heard many people saying that graduate school classes may not be worth while or applicable in the real world. I would like your opinion on which of the classes I have to choose from would potentially benefit me. Perhaps some of you have even taken similar ones. After weeding out the classes I know are just theory, which I've had plenty of, and the classes that I took as an undergrad, the list is as follows: Slope Stability, Engineering Geology, Pavement Design, Transportation Systems Analysis, Enviro Eng Microbiology, Enviro Eng Chemistry, Phys/Chem Principles in Enviro Eng, Sediment Transport, Construction Methods and Equipment, Construction Finance & Cost Control, Construction & Cost of Electrical Systems, Mine Ventilation, and Intro to Mining Eng. I don't know what will be available in the future semesters, so I want to get the two most worth while.
Sorry for rambling on.
Regards