I'll try this again & hope that I don't hit another bad key combination that resets the video and loses everything I had typed.... If your college is similar to the one I went to, there are two separate, antagonistic to each other, groups of Professors: Practical & Theoretical. I honestly believe that most of my "theoretical" Professors never worked at a practical job (i.e., in industry) and after their PhDs, they immediately went into academia. They only teach what they know -- theory. My college had a few fairly practical courses in the Junior & Senior years, like Senior Project and some design classes that used real examples of problems that you might see in industry. If your new degree requires a Senior Project, or equal, contact the Professor(s) that teach(es) the course and ask for details so that you can start at least thinking about *your* Project. My project was based on converting a manually-run 5-ton punch press into an automatic punch press. In the last year of High School & both years at Junior College, I was a "Jack of all Trades" and set-up & ran the punch presses along with everything else that I did. I knew the 5-ton punch press very well. I designed the "upgrade" as inexpensively & simply as I could because the business was a family-owned business and didn't have "big bucks" to spend on things like that. I think that by doing that, where it could actually be put into use, disappointed several of my Professors because I didn't design something with all kinds of bells & whistles. But I did get a good grade from the Professor that ran that course. ;P One course (a Controls course) arranged for Teams of 4-5 students to visit local industry to study a problem that they had with the intent of using the Controls information to attempt to provide the businesses with a recommendation on how to solve their problem. My Team went to Ampex where they were manufacturing magnetic tape (I'm definitely dating myself here!) where they were having problems controlling the variable tensioning of their huge rolls of newly manufactured tape while the tape was slit into whatever finished width of tape was needed for their cassettes, video tapes, tapes used to record music in studios, etc. I don't recall what we recommended, but I definitely remember the visit to their manufacturing plant. Some Engineering colleges have (I think) non-credit programs where interested students worked on projects where they got good experience with design, planning, finances, manufacturing, teamwork, etc., to end up with things like a Baja race car designed & built by the students themselves with the requirement that they couldn't spend more than a set amount. Then the participating colleges all over the country (I think only in the U.S., but it could be internationally) competed by racing their cars against the other Teams. Think a small, "home" made amphibious cross-country type vehicle. I wasn't able to participate in my college's Baja project, but it certainly would have been fun! As far as getting a Certification or Professional Engineering (P.E.) License, you've first got to pass the E.I.T. test, work at least 5 years under a P.E. (or equivalent), and then pass the P.E. test for whichever State you are planning to work in as a P.E. Often other States won't recognize P.E. Licenses from "your" State (wherever you are) (at least they didn't always do so when I graduated), so you may not be able to work in other States as a P.E, without retaking the P.E. test there too. My college required that all students take & pass the E.I.T. before graduation, or you couldn't graduate.
I got a ton of tools for my home lab. And subscribed to teachers' Patreons, found TH-cam channels to teach and challenge me, hired private tutors to go over challenging concepts and get way ahead of the game. I get emails about breakthroughs in the industry. I muse about projects and inventions with my friends. I play around with the social element of being involved in such an incredible study (and as a woman). Very little of my confidence or satisfaction came from school my first semester. But once those fundamentals are laid, and provided you do a lot of self study on your own, and you get deeper into the academics, I think you'll be challenged and satisfied and by that time have a network of great people & you will have figured out the applications of the knowledge and skills well enough to bring yourself fulfillment. It sounds a bit like you're facing the issue of the bored overachiever while the school has to tend to the people who are new to all of it. We have to feed that hunger on our own most of the time. I apprenticed under someone who was much older and more skilled than me and I also had my own cell phone repair service for a short time. I had to take a break from school & work to have an amputation & now I have an incredible piece of technology that allows me to walk and many friends who also use prosthetics who have been inspired to find their way into that industry. I'm not sure what you're experiencing but I know it's for yours and others' betterment. You're stretching yourself & addressing possible inadequacies in your system of learning & producing which you had to experience to notice & then fix. And you will, I think. Hope this comment was of any value to you.
@@krlabs5472Awesome I thought electrical but maybe in civil you do some electrical, or maybe you're pursuing electrical on the side. I wrote a really long comment which has now disappeared for me, maybe it posted or maybe it failed to post, but it probably didn't have much to do with your situation anyway. Lol
@@krlabs5472 But shorter version of that comment - do you think it being generalized instead of specialized is contributing to this feeling? What are you most passionate about so far? Do you plan to pursue that in more depth or wait and see where all of this is going?
Man I’m so glad I found this channel a few days ago. Thank you for this videos.
I'll try this again & hope that I don't hit another bad key combination that resets the video and loses everything I had typed....
If your college is similar to the one I went to, there are two separate, antagonistic to each other, groups of Professors: Practical & Theoretical. I honestly believe that most of my "theoretical" Professors never worked at a practical job (i.e., in industry) and after their PhDs, they immediately went into academia. They only teach what they know -- theory. My college had a few fairly practical courses in the Junior & Senior years, like Senior Project and some design classes that used real examples of problems that you might see in industry. If your new degree requires a Senior Project, or equal, contact the Professor(s) that teach(es) the course and ask for details so that you can start at least thinking about *your* Project. My project was based on converting a manually-run 5-ton punch press into an automatic punch press. In the last year of High School & both years at Junior College, I was a "Jack of all Trades" and set-up & ran the punch presses along with everything else that I did. I knew the 5-ton punch press very well. I designed the "upgrade" as inexpensively & simply as I could because the business was a family-owned business and didn't have "big bucks" to spend on things like that. I think that by doing that, where it could actually be put into use, disappointed several of my Professors because I didn't design something with all kinds of bells & whistles. But I did get a good grade from the Professor that ran that course. ;P
One course (a Controls course) arranged for Teams of 4-5 students to visit local industry to study a problem that they had with the intent of using the Controls information to attempt to provide the businesses with a recommendation on how to solve their problem. My Team went to Ampex where they were manufacturing magnetic tape (I'm definitely dating myself here!) where they were having problems controlling the variable tensioning of their huge rolls of newly manufactured tape while the tape was slit into whatever finished width of tape was needed for their cassettes, video tapes, tapes used to record music in studios, etc. I don't recall what we recommended, but I definitely remember the visit to their manufacturing plant.
Some Engineering colleges have (I think) non-credit programs where interested students worked on projects where they got good experience with design, planning, finances, manufacturing, teamwork, etc., to end up with things like a Baja race car designed & built by the students themselves with the requirement that they couldn't spend more than a set amount. Then the participating colleges all over the country (I think only in the U.S., but it could be internationally) competed by racing their cars against the other Teams. Think a small, "home" made amphibious cross-country type vehicle. I wasn't able to participate in my college's Baja project, but it certainly would have been fun!
As far as getting a Certification or Professional Engineering (P.E.) License, you've first got to pass the E.I.T. test, work at least 5 years under a P.E. (or equivalent), and then pass the P.E. test for whichever State you are planning to work in as a P.E. Often other States won't recognize P.E. Licenses from "your" State (wherever you are) (at least they didn't always do so when I graduated), so you may not be able to work in other States as a P.E, without retaking the P.E. test there too. My college required that all students take & pass the E.I.T. before graduation, or you couldn't graduate.
What branch?
@@SevenofEleven general
Curriculum tends toward civil however
I got a ton of tools for my home lab. And subscribed to teachers' Patreons, found TH-cam channels to teach and challenge me, hired private tutors to go over challenging concepts and get way ahead of the game. I get emails about breakthroughs in the industry. I muse about projects and inventions with my friends. I play around with the social element of being involved in such an incredible study (and as a woman). Very little of my confidence or satisfaction came from school my first semester. But once those fundamentals are laid, and provided you do a lot of self study on your own, and you get deeper into the academics, I think you'll be challenged and satisfied and by that time have a network of great people & you will have figured out the applications of the knowledge and skills well enough to bring yourself fulfillment. It sounds a bit like you're facing the issue of the bored overachiever while the school has to tend to the people who are new to all of it. We have to feed that hunger on our own most of the time. I apprenticed under someone who was much older and more skilled than me and I also had my own cell phone repair service for a short time. I had to take a break from school & work to have an amputation & now I have an incredible piece of technology that allows me to walk and many friends who also use prosthetics who have been inspired to find their way into that industry. I'm not sure what you're experiencing but I know it's for yours and others' betterment. You're stretching yourself & addressing possible inadequacies in your system of learning & producing which you had to experience to notice & then fix. And you will, I think. Hope this comment was of any value to you.
@@krlabs5472Awesome
I thought electrical but maybe in civil you do some electrical, or maybe you're pursuing electrical on the side.
I wrote a really long comment which has now disappeared for me, maybe it posted or maybe it failed to post, but it probably didn't have much to do with your situation anyway. Lol
@@krlabs5472 But shorter version of that comment - do you think it being generalized instead of specialized is contributing to this feeling? What are you most passionate about so far? Do you plan to pursue that in more depth or wait and see where all of this is going?