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Originally Posted by FVT";p="
So what are you doing now for a living? what kind of engineering did you pursue in college?
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I'm a project manager for a conglomerate. The nice thing about it is the relative freedom and variety of activities I get to be involved with. Never the same thing from month to month, nor the same place from month to month (though I do get called into areas where I have deeper process knowledge). Some of the projects are transactional (insourcing/outsourcing of products and facility moves). Other projects are manufacturing related: how to build a better, faster, cheaper, less defective mousetrap? And once an improvement has been established, what's necessary to make it a longterm improvement and not just a flash in the pan. The only thing I don't like is having to deal with people who will tell you that they KNOW something to be true or the root cause of a problem, even though the data says otherwise. That's one reason I enjoy this board. So many people (myself included - though I try not to) will express an opinion as fact, or select an exception and try to present it as the rule. I did take a few sociology classes and that helps (hmm, people!).
That's sort of my problem... I took no engineering classes while in college. Since then, I've taken a number of CAD/CAM, dimensional tolerancing and blueprint classes... but most still see me as the "banker dude" (though I've heard there are a few other names for me too
). But I've always had a great interest in how things worked and were designed and built. My goal (hope) is to retire in about five years. At that point I think I'd like to go back to college and if not get a degree, at least take a number of mechanical engineering classes - purely for my own satisfaction. What I've learned about money and markets will help me to retire early, but I wish I'd taken at least a few engineering courses too. Computational Fluid Dynamics is one area that I would love to fully understand.
Your knowledge of physics would certainly help you in many areas of mechanical engineering, wouldn't it?