I am a fresh Mechanical engineering graduate,what are my future prospeccts?

Answer 1

Your prospects for opportunities are very good. The job market seems better than in recent years. Mechanical Engineering has specialties and your best prospects with a resume will be with a job objective that matches the posted job listing. Networking with people in your field will find an interview faster than trolling the internet job sites. There are career networking sites and IEEE meetings for you to find.
Best of luck. Engineering has been good to me.

Answer 2

It does not guarantee anything. In any business enterprise, even as an engineer you will have to generate a profit, pay for yourself. Too many engineerswho were good at bookwork where money was not an issue, approach a field project impractically and without any concern for how much it will cost the client to build. I see plans and finished work all the time in the petroleum industry where I find myself asking how in the hell some engineer dreamed this up. It really has to do with a design engineer who has had no practical field experience. Never got his or her hands dirty. Some things cannot be taught in a classroom. The best engineers are those who came up in the field in my opinion. They offer straight forward cost effective solutions, and they can assess a situation and make a decision quickly because they have been there and done it. Get your degree, and go do some hard labor in your field while you're young. It'll put you ahead in the long run.

Answer 3

Helios was either lucky or not actually employed yet. The truth is if you are American your prospects suck. If you are from India or Pakistan (studious, but know what it's like to live with very little, comparitively to Americans) your prospects are pretty good. American companies have been increasingly abusing an unregulated "exchange" type loophole to hire foreign engineering talent for less money than American engineers. If you think I'm off my rocker, contact your local chapter of the American Association of Mechanical Engineers (or Chemical Engineers) and see how the memebership has declined over the past 10 years nationwide and what has happened to the salaries. If you're American, Civil Engineering would be a safer bet.

Answer 4

You need to be geographically flexible to achieve your goals...otherwise you will be "planted" into an area, get roots (i.e. get involved with someone, maybe married, friends, kids, etc.) and not want to leave. Don't limit your search geographically (especially if you want to work in aerospace, automotive, etc.)

At this phase of your career you should be more concerned with working to LEARN and not working to EARN. You can chase dum dum engineer jobs that will pay you astronomical salaries on a contract basis and learn nothing but how to draw someone else's design OR you can work for a company that has a mantra of training their employees, mentoring them, and "growing" engineers.

I work as an ME for a company that does just that. We are seeking actively an entry level engineer, so feel free to e-mail me your resume if you want. The salary, is however, very competitve (and we've received bonuses = 5% our annual salaries for the past 3 years running...TWICE A YEAR!). Okay, enough of the plug! :)

Seriously though, if you take away anything from my rant, you will carefully consider your first employer to ensure you grow as an engineer (i.e. pick a place that exercises ALL your skills: thermal, structures, dynamics, etc and NOT someplace like an o-ring vendor where you do pressure calcs 10 times and then it's cookie cutter from there out--you will be bored---as an engineer, you need to be CHALLENGED).

Then, when you have some experience (at least 2 years), you can think about those high paying contract jobs (Can you say 6 figures?!)

Answer 5

In short, good. Salaries vary significantly by region, but they are generally good for whatever region you happen to find yourself. Be careful taking a job as a technician to learn expecting to move up. Degree or not once you're pegged as a technician, you are unlikely to move up without a lot of trouble. The best way to find a job is through friends, (networking). If you had the foresight/opportunity you did an internship of some sort. This would be a great place to start. Instructors and graduate students might also be able to help. Ironically I've found that ASME functions are lacking in networking opportunities, but it never hurts to try there as well. Job hunting ettiquette is often more influential in finding a job than technical skills. Make a resume that is as good as you can. Call to make sure the resume is received and ask to schedule an interview; then keep following up until they tell you the position is filled or they schedule an interview. If they're willing to hire you, they'll appreciate the persistence. If they're not willing to hire you, it is still their job to answer your questions. Get a book on commonly asked interview questions and what they are looking for, read it and practice. Then follow up with the people you interview with, by card and phone. If you'd like you can send me a resume. I can critique it and/or keep an eye out for positions locally (Panama City, Florida). Good luck.

Answer 6

55k if you were smart enough to have summer internships than 60k. If you were a lousy student and don't know jack 50k. Don't worry that you spelled prospects wrong either, you can pay your secretary $10 an hour to fix that while you do the calcs.

K thx bye

Notice the next guy is an employer (he wants to low ball ya). Hold out, you'll get your 60k, you're worth it with all the baby boomers retiring. I'm in an unrelated engineering field and have been offered between 62k and 68k already.

Answer 7

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