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No rating yet Subject: Re: [OT] Why there are so few New Grads who want to Author: Joe Metrisin Date: 2008-04-21 10:48:51I have to say we haven't seen any of these problems at our company here in Florida. We've been on a fairly steady growth path for many years, and we haven't had any trouble attracting young talent willing to do analysis work. Granted, our job offer acceptance rate has suffered a bit in recent years, but I attribute that to the horrendous cost of living increases in this area due to the housing bubble. Even so, we get plenty of resume's when we ask for them. As far as pay goes, everyone complains about being underpaid, except for maybe the CEO's and hedge fund managers.
Lastly, we don't hire FEA jocks, we hiring engineers who do structural design and problem solving using FEA as a tool. Maybe that's the difference?
Joseph T Metrisin
Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
1701 Military Trail, Suite 110
Jupiter, FL. 33458-7887
(561) 427-6346
Author: eric.miller Date: 2008-04-17 19:12 -400
To: xansys New-Topics: Re: [Xansys] [OT] Why there are so few New Grads who want to doSimulation , Re: [Xansys] [OT] Why there are so few New Grads who want to doSimulation Subject: [Xansys] [OT] Why there are so few New Grads who want to do Simulation
Dear all, Well, things seem to be stable, but there has not been enough traffic to really work things out. Discussing couples and beam elements doesn't seem to have an effect, so I thought I'd through something out there to get a good discussion going. We can all agree to beat this horse to death until tommorow evening. KEEP THINGS PROFESIONAL AND NO ATTACKS. Don't make me feel quilty for bringing this up. Many of our customers are complainging that they can not find enough quality new graduates who want to focus on simulation for their career, especially at the graduat level and especially when you require US Citizens. Questions to the group: 1: Do you see the same thing in your industry/country? 2: If so, why do you think? My oppinion for the US: (warning: old man "not like it used to be" rant comming) There just is not the attraction or glory of being an engineer. After WWII it was a way for anyone who was smart to move up the economic structure. Now, smart students don't want to become engineers, they want to go into finance and/or business. Or maybe I'm generalizing. Eric
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