I'm doing my senior year of highschool and I'm considering becoming an enineer. I have a 95% average accross the board and I find math and physics come very naturally as well I find them very intriguing. Also in Physics I'm constantly finding easier ways to do solve the questions than what is taught, which often lets me do questions twice as fast with half the possibility of error. I'm curious if I should become an engineer because I am also very social and have a strong creative side to me, I'm in all the dramatic arts, I coach improv, and I would consider myself a people person. I'm curious if engineering would be the right job for me, meaning I could utilize my math/science skills as well as my creative side. Also I would like to know what division of engineering sounds best suited for my character. Thank you for you help.
2006-10-12 15:54:54 · 9 answers · asked by tim_bit_ca 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
I thought I was a genius when I was in High School as well. But in engineering school you'll find that being a genius makes you an average engineering student. It didn't bother me but some people can't handle that.
It is sterotypical thinking to assume that improving your math and science skills will hurt creativity. And that being an engineer means you can't be creative.
In the free enterprize system we have a method for determining who best serves their fellow man. They make the most money. The highest paying job will be the most challenging. If I had it to do over again I would still be an engineer but I would have worked harder on my language and communication skills.
The best paying and most rewarding job is one where you develop and guide other people. I would start in engineering and move into management.
2006-10-12 16:21:25 · answer #1 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All engineering requires creativity. What branch of engineering you choose depends on what you feel would be most comfortable to you.
I also agree with the person who warned to be ready to be average in engineering school. I was also at the top of my high school class and found engineering school to be a different world. Once you start, you'll find out whether or not it's for you.
Your communication skills will put you towards the front of what employers look for in engineers.
2006-10-13 01:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by goldnwhite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 18 years old and i'm becoming a mathematician. I almost failed out of high school, I found physics to be stupid and boring, and am quite anti- social. I love math more than anything. Don't waste your time with solving partial differential equations using special functions so you can figure out the maximum load of a dam. Become either a mathematician or a physicist, go for it!
2006-10-12 16:04:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Okay don't listent to what the person said about the environment, that's just a waste of time. Anyways, what I would do is take all the things you are good at or love and put them all together and see what job has all of those qualities together. That's what I'm doing. Anyways, good luck!
2006-10-12 16:03:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say "Mechanical Engineer" first, second Industrial Engineer. You'll find your calling in College, your passion.
Look for colleges with a focus in engineering. Good Luck
2006-10-12 16:07:45 · answer #5 · answered by big dawg 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry old chap yet you will discover it confusing to get a job and in case you do get one it extremely is going to be on the backside of the food chain and you will ought to paintings your way up from there. the element is that to get a place of duty you ought to have the two adventure and skills in the sphere and from what you assert you have not any adventure and doubtless constrained skills
2016-10-16 03:30:29 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say mechanical engineer... because you like physics...
but why not consider to be in aplyed physics .. or applyed math...
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2006-10-12 16:43:15 · answer #7 · answered by Flor M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You sound like an intelligent person. Please take your talents into the world and do something for the environment - make the world a better place!
I wish you well!
2006-10-12 15:59:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
civil engineering, you'll love it
2006-10-12 18:02:19 · answer #9 · answered by Nick G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋