Any seniors care to share about e engg? Is it a good course to take? How are the prospects like?
I feel it's a solid technical discipline, but heard most fresh grads these days either have trouble finding employment or end up in diploma-level entry positions? Thanks!
It is a very good core discipline/field to have as a background. This equip you with a highly quantitative as well as systematic approach to problems whether in life or at work.
As an EE graduate, you have the choice to concentrate on pure engr & therefore be a PE, design or research engineer OR the majority will branch out into other areas and usually ends up being in senior management of any company. They are most sought after to head companies due to their highly skilled approach to systems and problems.
In the long run, you can build on this with an MBA or other disciplines...no fear as anything is not insurmountable once you have graduated and done well. Almost every other disciplines at postgrad level is within your reach because of your EE training. Fields you cannot cross are very few. Even medical courses are now invaded by EE engineers, with their quantitative, visual cad, research and simulation training coupled with thorough understanding of electrical/electronic devices & machines for biomedical research - becomes good biomedical engineers at post grad level. They are also highly sought after in MNCs for starting sales positions as management trainees e.g IBM, HP, etc. They will eventually be VPs and senior management of such companies. For employment, many fields will be opened to EE grads - sales & marketing, product management, etc. Employers find them superior to most marketing & business graduates since their training gives them an edge in problem solving and solution focus approach.
It is one of the best disciplines to be when you take on higher responsibilities. A large number of CEOs worth their salt anywhere in the world are EE/engineering trained. Esp in Singapore - a recent survey found that those in C positions in large companies that are listed or GLCs - CEOs and COOs are mostly engineering/science trained and usually EE.
As for the external factors such as the economy, look at your goals in building a solid discipline for life and not be distracted like many, mired and battered badly in both mind and spirit in the present issues - these will pass away and at the end, your solid credentials will stand you out in 10-15 years time (or even earlier if you are very good) when you will be managing large divisions in sales, systems integration, product development OR to be VP and then take over the company as CEO or COO.
At this moment, there is a small window where engineering is not the popular thing to do (diploma level - very easy to get entry...at Uni - one of the easier courses to get in) - but its a quirk and soon, the world and Singapore will get back to its basics and it will be a very sought after course...
