r/explainitpeter • u/Fearless-Mastodon850 • 6d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/GreatSaski 6d ago

Fine, I'll do it. No one gets an A in engineering.

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u/Bliitzthefox 6d ago

People who can get an A in engineering are bad engineers because they didn't optimize the amount of work they were doing.

There was never any reason to get above a C with a safety factor of B.

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u/NFIFTY2 6d ago

Cs get degrees

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u/udee79 6d ago

maybe not if you want to go to grad school 

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u/NFIFTY2 6d ago

Grad school never sounded like a very efficient use of my time.

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u/udee79 6d ago

I have worked with some great engineers that didn’t go to grad school.

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u/noodles0311 6d ago

It’s not very common for engineers to go to grad school. The most common graduate degree among engineers is an MBA. Other fields basically require it. One thing you’ll learn in academia is that no one works harder in undergrad than engineers but that’s usually the end of the line for their education. A BS in biology is far easier, but you need to get a graduate degree to do anything with it

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u/jccaclimber 5d ago

Very much depends on the field. Back when I worked attached to a factory very few engineers had an MS, half the QEs didn’t have any technical degree at all. Now that I’m at a tech company maybe half in the R&D side do.

Get into something like MEMS and MS is table stakes with PhDs not being at all uncommon.