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It is great to hear! The Eulerian description makes it easy when working in the laboratory, since your class is theoretical that is why they stick to the Lagrangian description. I agree, one of the issues engineering students face is the lack of math skills, specially in the U.S, where the whole educational system is screwed up. Since I was initially a physics major, I learned much of the mathematics there. I love the subject of fluid mechanics because it is so much attached to the applications of numerical methods since most of the equations do not have closed solutions. I wish you luck, thanks for keeping us updated!

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@ ALI and JohannBernoulli1667.

We seriously are like the three compadres. I am so proud of us!! I too am an engineer. I have a BS in civil engineering and minor in applied math from cal state long beach. And a MS in structural/earthquake engineering front ucla. I want to get another masters in structural mechanics.

I passed my E.I.T. on the first attempt.

Great to hear. I am proud of us too. I just wish I was not stuck here for much longer. It is nice to know that there are plenty of us out there. How long did it take you to finish your masters? Did you pay out of pocket?

It took me 9 months. Yes out of pocket. I didn't do a thesis just took a comprehensive exam. How long will it take you to finish your degree?

I'm actually finished with my BS in mechanical engineering as well. I'm a graduate special student right now still trying to decide whether to pursue an MSc in EE or CSE (computer science and engineering). I'd rather not state my school since i'm one of the few hispanics in the college and it would be easy to spot me out (by last name). Let's just say it is a Tier 1 school and one of only 13 Universities in the US that offer Ph.D.'s in Mining Engineering (among others)... that pretty much narrows it down.

Your professor and class sound pretty cool Bernoulli. I had a graduate student (PhD) from the Ukraine (former USSR) teach our numerical methods class one time, dude was also super smart, freaking DERIVED EVERYTHING and came into class with NO NOTES but a cup of coffee. A lot of respect for some of these former USSR students... some of the best notes i ever took and best teachers i ever had (the dude is now working at Oakridge National Laboratory).

I'm taking foundations of MEMS and advanced c++ currently.

What??? 9 moths??? You took 36 hours in 9 months??? How did you do this???

I just started, I am taking two classes and I am paying out of pocket too. I work 40 hours a week to pay for it. It took me 3 years and a half to get my B.S and it will take me almost the same to finish my masters.


Very nice, is your major EE? I could use some programming help. Honestly talking about this in this forum makes me want to go get a book and study hard right now. Fuck our situation no one can prevent us from learning and enjoying the beautiful things in science.

I love this thread!! Yaay, go engineers! We need more threads where we talk about what we actually like to do and not focus on how bad things are. Keep this up! I still practice a lot of Math as part of my daily work, but nothing challenging. I miss having those hard unsolvable problems and figuring them out. Or taking something apart and trying to figure out how to better improve it's design.

I am a Biomedical Engineering. I want to go to further studies but right now I am not sure what will happen to Dreamers so I don't know if I should get a Master's in US since it won't really help me much. Plus, I don't know about funding options. Also, I don't want to leave the states because my only family is here and I would not be able to see them because of the 10 yr ban. So I have decided to take a time out for the next 1-2 yrs, unless something comes up that I can't say no to.

Haven't decided quite yet, i plan on doing my MSc in either EE or CSE (computer science and engineering). Right now though, i'm kind of leaning more towards EE because i seem to enjoy it more and physics and applied math seem to appear more strongly in these classes. This, and my favorites subjects seem to just revolve around control systems, fluid dynamics, and modern dynamics (Lagrangian or Hamiltonian). The overall subject of CSE would just seem to gradually get too boring for me.

I consider my c++ programming pretty strong though (considering this is not my background), if you ever needed some help or something. I basically taught myself and then aced my first c++ course. I would consider procedural programming my strong suit but i do know a little bit of OOP, although as an ME i never use the latter as much.

You mentioned you are taking Turbulence, is that your third course in fluid mechanics or second? Just curious because at my Uni this would be like a third course in fluids, after fundamentals and Intermediate fluid mechanics.

I did three quarters at ucla. I took 3 classes per quarter each class was 4 units for a total of 36 units. I have seen in your post that you were able to obtain an engineering job. I am currently in the hunt for an engineering job/internship. can you give me some advice as to what to do? where to look, big or small companies? and ultimately how did you tell your bosses about our status. should i tell them during the interview? Any additional info will be greatly appreciated.

You got your BS very quick, it took me 6 years to get my BS. WOW! 3 years for a masters is a long time, are you planning on doing it part time?