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I've recently finished my first year of Civil Engineering. It was hard like hell, because Belgian universities maintain a sorting system: in the first year, they treat you like cattle and hope that you will drop out. This is because the studies are very cheap and everyone can attend them without entrance exams.
So after being soaked in hydrodynamics, probability theory and other necessary topics until the vectors were pointing out every hole in my body, I was one of the 1/3 of all students passing my exams.
Now I'm heading for my second year. Now, we get to choose our specialization. If in the first year it was an all-science year, equal for everyone, now we will be taught more profession-specific subjects.
The reason for opening this thread is that I've heard that many of you are Engineers in some sort, ranging from Combat Engineers in the Canadian Armed Forces to electronics specialists, and I would like to know more about your profession. All of the specializations seem equally "juicy" and I can't choose one. In fact, in 2 years, when I'll commence my Master studies, I'm planning to study Industrial/Systems Engineering, and I can commence it with every bachelor diploma of Engineering available on our university, no matter if I choose Chemical Engineering or Computer Technology.
But plans might change, and I might want to continue in my specialization that I'll commence this autumn instead of switching to ISE. Therefore it would be very interesting to hear every detail, even the seemingly irrelevant ones, about your profession.
For those who wonder, I have a choise of:
-Constructional Engineering (towers, roads, bridges, the classical stuff)
-Chemical Engineering (production and development of chemicals)
-Electrotechnics (circuits, electronics, information transfer, communication and so on, can later be specialized into "strict" electricity-related topics such as generator production, or more information-related things such as network connections)
-Computer Technology (fusion between a programmer and an engineer, development of software and hardware)
-Electrotechnics-Tool Design (the widest specialization, in the Master it splits itself into many a topic:
-mechanical construction: engines, turbines, you name it,
-mechanical production methods: one researches and develops production methods such as welding ... ,
-automatization: one stands in for the automatization of construction processes and things in general, like elevators, cranes, ...
-ship building: one becomes a shipwright
Industrial/Systems Engineering can be accessed in the Master by possessing one of the abovementioned Bachelor Diplomas.
Thank you upon forehand!
So after being soaked in hydrodynamics, probability theory and other necessary topics until the vectors were pointing out every hole in my body, I was one of the 1/3 of all students passing my exams.
Now I'm heading for my second year. Now, we get to choose our specialization. If in the first year it was an all-science year, equal for everyone, now we will be taught more profession-specific subjects.
The reason for opening this thread is that I've heard that many of you are Engineers in some sort, ranging from Combat Engineers in the Canadian Armed Forces to electronics specialists, and I would like to know more about your profession. All of the specializations seem equally "juicy" and I can't choose one. In fact, in 2 years, when I'll commence my Master studies, I'm planning to study Industrial/Systems Engineering, and I can commence it with every bachelor diploma of Engineering available on our university, no matter if I choose Chemical Engineering or Computer Technology.
But plans might change, and I might want to continue in my specialization that I'll commence this autumn instead of switching to ISE. Therefore it would be very interesting to hear every detail, even the seemingly irrelevant ones, about your profession.
For those who wonder, I have a choise of:
-Constructional Engineering (towers, roads, bridges, the classical stuff)
-Chemical Engineering (production and development of chemicals)
-Electrotechnics (circuits, electronics, information transfer, communication and so on, can later be specialized into "strict" electricity-related topics such as generator production, or more information-related things such as network connections)
-Computer Technology (fusion between a programmer and an engineer, development of software and hardware)
-Electrotechnics-Tool Design (the widest specialization, in the Master it splits itself into many a topic:
-mechanical construction: engines, turbines, you name it,
-mechanical production methods: one researches and develops production methods such as welding ... ,
-automatization: one stands in for the automatization of construction processes and things in general, like elevators, cranes, ...
-ship building: one becomes a shipwright
Industrial/Systems Engineering can be accessed in the Master by possessing one of the abovementioned Bachelor Diplomas.
Thank you upon forehand!
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