To answer your question regarding consulting: In order to be a “real” consultant, you need years of experience. Companies will usually reach out to you specifically for special projects that need to be done and will look for you to advise on how to complete it. I think the best path for doing consulting in engineering is to create your own…[Read more]

Outside of of the pros of industry salary and academia tenure, I would argue that there are certain pros and cons with the type of people and personalities you can expect to work with in industry and academia.

I believe many people in industry, especially upper management, is very “Type A”. These are your people who like to compete, need to have…[Read more]

I don’t believe there is a right or wrong answer as to what the ratio should be that is offered. I believe that it is solely dependent on what ones overlying goal is upon completion of their degree.

Sure, NJIT can offer more practical courses that will help in industry. However, I believe, they offer a lot of classes that provide SKILLS as…[Read more]

Everyone in this forum keeps stating “get an internship or co-op”. For a lot of people trying to break into the field, this is actually a lot more challenging then it seems. When companies are recruiting at schools, they have a limited number of roles open (usually 2-3) and can have between 50-100 students vying for these selective roles.

I had…[Read more]