[Elombard]

School wont mean Sh...#@ unless its MIT or something. I would think if you stay in that area and that state school has a decent rep. then it will show well on a resume'. I am a CE and PE. I think if I had it to do over again I would do something in Business. I love business/finance and those guys can make some bucks if they are sharp at all. I wish I had gone back for an MBA before the family.

There is tons of work in Civil, I am in sales now and call on Eng. firms and get constant job offers. But civil is bottom of the barrel and they cant charge large fees for design so they cant pay the CEs that much. They wish they could, there is a terrible shortage in the Atlanta area.

Sounds like you would enjoy ME it definitely covers all the basis. Most MEs dont get a profesional license (no reason too) and they plateau out pretty hard unless they can make it into management. Just higher plateau than CEs. I think Chem Es make good money but that is hard work to learn all that chemistry.

I think the forrestry engineers were below the CEs in the heirarchy and I thought the Materials too, but I could be wrong.:-))