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Please post up some details on what you are, and what it took to get there... I'm trying to learn all about it, so I can figure out which direction to go...

No BS please, ask yourself before responding to this thread... are you in engineering?

You have to be able to get into college first.

What type of engineering are you looking for? Manufacturing, ECE, Civil, Aerospace, etc?? My current job title officially states "Associate QA Engineer" but I was a Management Information Systems major. ... although it has more to do with conceptual (data testing) than physical engineering.

Really you should just go for what you like doing the most. I have friends in every major listed above that went simply because they liked doing what they were doing. I also know someone who graduated civil many years ago but ended up never working it (accepted manufacturing and ECE type jobs instead), so even if you can't land a job in your major a strong general engineering background is good.

I'm technically an Industrial Engineer, though my formal education and much of my experience is primarily in transportation management and traffic engineering. My degree is actually a Business degree.

My current work is in the railroad industry. I do a wide variety of statistical analysis and computer simulation modeling (and, on occasion some Lean/Kaizen tools) on an equally wide variety of subjects ranging from traffic flow patterns to locomotive maintenance intervals to infrastructure inspections. So the job is interesting in that I'm always working on something different that requires extensively learning about something new.

This particular job in this particular industry doesn't take much to get into since the rail industry is pretty desperate for fresh blood. Any engineering degree (Mechanical or Industrial preferred) will get you in the door. Even without one (like myself) a demonstrated penchant for efficiency and analysis will suffice.