Any engineers around?

[TheGander]

I’d really value any information from engineers/ parents of engineering students. DS has had trouble settling on a course. It was gong to be Medicine, then he discarded the idea, then PPE , also discarded. Now he’s thinking of engineering. He got 3 A s a A level ( bio, chem, maths). I’m out of my depth as know v little about the discipline. Are there any institutions/ places he can visit to get a better understanding of engineering? I’m thinking the engineering equivalent of RIBA for architects, or the Wellcome institute for medicine. We live in London. Thanks for any ideas!

DS1 studied Chem Eng and now works in Finance. A few of his peers also work on this field.
DS2 is about to begin a Civil Engineering course and I think there’ll be lots of scope there too on graduating.
Good luck to your son!

Thank you everyone for these encouraging words. Sounds like you are loving your job @8TinyToeBeans which is what we all want for our kids. I hadn’t realised that engineering is transferable to finance @MonkeyTennis34 but I guess it makes sense with the strong Maths component, that’s interesting. Who knows what he’ll be into in 5 years but it’s good to have options.

All I can say is my DH is a principle engineer and he hates it, not the actual engineering work but how projects are managed and set up causing endless issues, it's not an uncommon sentiment among his peers. He works for a top 5 civil engineering company.

Sorry to hear that. Can he move or is he counting down to retirement ?