I graduated with a chemical engineering degree over a year ago from a top 20 American University and possess an EIT certification.
For the life of me, I can't find a job. I've sent out over 300 resumes, cold called companies, contacted network connections from school, showed up to companies with resume in hand...I've broadened my search to other engineering disciplines, looked outside of my state, and even volunteered free labor to large corporations.
No one will touch me. My GPA is on the lower side, though I had good reason for it during school and my work ethic and quality is admirable. I'm starting to lose hope, I recently accepted a job at a local coffee shop as a barista because unfortunately my financial situation cannot cope with another year of unemployment.
Does anyone have any sort of out of the box suggestions? I can't help but feel I really wasted my time working so hard for my degree - people who partied hard in college and majored in sociology found careers, while with the so called STEM promise of a decent career I'm left on my ass.
What did you do to get your first job? I don't have any family or friend connections in an engineering field.
>>7932584
bet your resume design looks like shit tho
>>7932593
I've reviewed templates and have a friend who works in HR (in an unrelated field).
Got any quick tips or resources I could use to buff up my resume? I don't have any applicable engineering experience, though I do have work experience in unrelated fields.
If you aren't mentioning how well of a team player you are you ain't gonna make it, did you do some sort of team project either extra curricular or not?
If you have a lower GPA (how low we talking?) you need to bring other stuff, eg tea working, management experience
I need some help with an algorithm. I'm attempting to write an approximation to vertex cover using the bipartite homeograph of a planar graph but I can't figure out how to actually construct this homeograph. They make it seem simple--"just turn every face into a vertex and make an edge to its adjacent faces", but I dont see any algorithms on doing that for undirected planar graphs.
>>7932562
I can probably use the boost library's boyer myrvold planarity test to generate a planar embedding and use that in the planar face traversal, but this doesn't tell me how to get the adjacent faces for a geometric dual or even how the algorithm works
what data structure are you using for your graphs?
the algorithm to construct the homeograph certainly depends on how a graph is stored.
>>7932620
literally just an unordered set of vertices and a vector of edges, in no particular order.
I'm probably going to use boost now
If Diamorphine (Heroin) and Alcohol are both very addictive (topping the charts), than how come alcohol can be used so frequently by people, without getting addicted to it (forming some kind of dependency), but heroin is portrayed as making you addicted to it way "easier" (I heard people saying that 3~5 consumptions is all it takes for an average person to develop some kind of dependency). Does it relate to different amounts of dopamine binding in the dopamine receptors (D1,D2) in the basal ganglia?
Well heroin is definitely more euphoric than alcohol, so that is probably a big factor.
Part of it also might be not the pharmacological reasons, but the way alcohol is accepted in society.
You can be functionally addicted to alcohol and casually drink beers all the time and no one will think anything of it, but being a casual heroin isn't accepted.
>>7932538
Addictions disappear when you find something better.
Most people have something better than alcohol to begin with so it's non-habit forming, but when you take a stumble in your life and don't have any better way to feel self-content, alcohol easily becomes habit forming. Sometimes life picks back up and the cravings wean away.
There's nothing better than heroin, even having a great life, so anyone who takes heroin is gonna get fucked up
>>7932538
alchohol addiction is a negative addiction. heroine is overtly positive
>Mathematics is just an abstraction of geometric phenomena!
>>7932537
>Mathematics is just a branch of philosophy
>>7932537
But it is
>>7932537
duh.
math started as geometry. It only became abstract later.
Just got a raspberry pi, anyone got ideas reguarding what i should do with it?
Kill yourself with it
Bumpin for you, because I have an Arduiono lying around collecting dust.
Go game is nice and interesting, but AlphaGo made it a bit irrelevant. What will be the next milestone to target in AI? Is there anything more complex? (I mean something with full information and zero random chance.)
markets
>>7932449
so you mean telling the future?
>>7932450
yeah making better predictions based on models
i mean if i had deepmind thats the shit i'd be doing
Hi /sci/ undergrad mech engineering here. How did most of you get good specifically in physics, I can solve a lot if its given simply, but once a problem is given in a different way where I have to derive and find angles with wacky formulas I get lost. Is there something I'm missing besides practise? No memes and eng hate you can fuck off
> mechanical engineer
Found your problem there faggot. Pick a non cocksucking major.
>>7932134
You too babe
>>7932161
thats exactly the motivation i feed off of
I can't find an answer for this anywhere, I'm getting desperate for help, so I hope someone is willing.
From my understanding, in an electromagnetic wave, the direction of propagation is perpendicular to the magnetic and electric fields, which are perpendicular to eachother as well.
for example,
E x B = direction of propagation
If given an Electric field equation of a EM wave, like e.g E = E_o x e^(ky-wt)
and nothing else, how do I know whether the direction of the wave is in the x or z direction? as both are perpendicular.
I have to answer a multiple choice where there is a choice for all 3 directions. I'm not given the magnetic field, only that equation above.
>>7931881
Shouldn't that be i(ky-wt)
>>7931885
Yeah sorry I made a typo.
bump
someone please
So a bird dropped a egg on my back deck and i figured I'd boil it cus yolo. But it boiled clear, why guys? Had a crack in it from a jays beak smells fine in photo a regular egg cooked the same amount of time that as you can see is fully boiled
Closeup
Gave it a poke it feels solid, just clear
You should eat it and describe what it tastes like.
>i) Working as an engineer
>ii) Doing a PhD research in an engineering field
Which one has more value ?
Depends where the dudes are hotter
chem engineer here >>7931762 is how I chose where to work after graduating.
>>7931760
when you say engineer, you mean doing a full masters or just american engineer? Also what country?
What is your favorite physics and chemistry programs for the ti-84?
>>7931758
none
>>7931758
nerd
>>7931758
Stop trying to make us help you pass your phys/chem midterm. Learn you useless, degenerate, piece of shit.
This is kind of /pol/, however I need logical (logical 4chan lol) to assist.
I have a mega liberal friend who, in the case of this hypothetical refuses to rectify his logical error.
His claim is that all life is equal, regardless of any and all life choices, and that all life is worth saving.
However, he claims in this situation that it is better to split the medicine and "at least try" to save both lives, even if it definitely means they will both die, rather than saving one.
Thus, someone who claims that all life is worth saving, is also claiming that at least trying to save both is worth more than ACTUALLY saving one.
How would /sci/ approach this?
>>7931712
I believe you would go with the one that has a higher chance of success. The drugs in the other man's system will make it hard for them to treat him without first purging his system. Purging takes time, and his life probably depends on a timely transplant.
>>7931712
>trying to save both
>high risk of losing both
It seems less of a morality question and more of a gamblers question.
20 years guys
20 motherfucking years being forced to learn shit you don't want and being tested on concepts/memorizations you don't give two shits about. the more you advance on education, the more difficult it gets and the less useful those things are. even if you just want to study a very specific field you are forced to go through a shitton of useless bullshit, delaying the day you will be able to be a professional, making you spend more on education. and by spending more I don't mean money alone, but time, stress and intelect. in murika it's even worse: you even need to graduate in biology to get to medicine. I was taking a discipline about FISHES and there were fucking premed students there. you gotta be fucking kidding me knowing the sexual behavior of lantern fish will make you a better doctor. most professors give zero shits about making the discipline easier to understand or select the subjects that are most broad and relevant to the student: they just teach whatever they are more confortable with and need less preparation to teach. professors have zero didactics, they don't care HOW the student learns, just put a prize on the end of it and hope it's enough motivation for the student to get there, no matter how. this bullshit system is only popping out scientific articles because of the ridiculous amount of money those institutions get. most grad students aren't studying what they find interesting. many don't believe in the possible results their research might wield and come up with whatever excuse to get the funding.
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>>7931695
>wall of text
>cont
no,
fuck you schizo,
lrn to format for legibility
I learned robotics in a place we didn't have tests, the professor just gave us lectures a few times for key concepts for key projects, we learned most of the stuff by doing it and we were free to make our own projects. this place popped dozens of teenagers that could build fucking robots. when I met mechatronics engineering students they never built a robot or built their own circuit their entire lives. they never built a circuit from scratch. AT BEST some of them messed with arduino boards, something a literal 10 year old could do.
this bullshit system makes me wanna puke.
I just wish I could get rich enough to fund my own research by now.
>>7931706
this
nobody cares about your edgy ranting. also,
get good or go home. academia doesn't need whiners.
Launch at 9:31 UTC
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/Watch_ExoMars_launch
>inb4 "b-but it's not exciting because it's not Elon Memesk"
proton will explode
screencap this post
>>7931360
Elong Mustards PR team usually puts more information in the OP, instead of just putting a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P42i05PEGM8
Did you all forget?
Anyone getting free pi at math departments today?
>>7931271
I ammmmm
>>7931271
excuse my shitty typing speed but this just happened and I have no one else to show this to so here it is: """what are the odds"""?
>>7931271
Fuck yea, we ordered about 200 bux worth of pies for our university's math club.
