In your opinion, when do you become an engineer?

Keshav Srinivasan, EECS sophomore

You’re an engineer when you develop enough passion to build something and have the skills and are good enough to do it. The main thing is passion.

Matt Harris, MSE Ph.D. student

When you finish your bachelor’s degree. It’s basically an accreditation that says you’re qualified to get a job in the field.

Ramesh Sridharan, EECS sophomore

When you apply what you’ve learned and use your skills to solve real problems, which are problems where there’s some value gained in solving them.

Alice Chen, B.S.’03 IEOR, works at Moody’s Corp.

I still don’t feel like an engineer yet. I keep thinking one of these days I’ll get there.

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