What does Veeky Forums think of Systems Engineering? Is it a meme degree/field...

Stay far away. It's a shitload of buzzwords and people who create overhead

I already have a BS in another engineering field. I was thinking of getting a MS in SE

No yeah its literally that.

How can I make something efficient over here so as to be able to spend more money on forklifts so that I add more efficiency over all?

Its literally
>Factorio: The Career

Don't waste your money and effort. SE's are super-autists who don't work well with others and are relegated to cobbling shit together and otherwise doing everybody else's bitchwork. If you like that kind of thing, all the power to you.

When I worked in systems engineering, I acted as an intermediary between the supplier and customer. My job included updating requirements and writing up with formal reports for anything from individual components like a valve all the way up to an entire mechanism or system. Nothing remotely technical was involved. No calculations, CAD or even numbers. Actually, there are numbers involved, you're just not the one coming up with them. But you are the one responsible for ensuring that the numbers are met.

It's not a meme job as it is necessary for the successful completion of a project. For example, you could argue the Challenger disaster was a failure in systems engineering.

I could have done the job without an engineering degree. The only reason (I suspect) they ask for one is a liability thing as they want professional engineers to be the ones signing off on documents should something go wrong. I wouldn't do it again, the job was kill myself boring. I recommend you try it for a summer before majoring in it.

Really? All the ISEs/SEs I know were the chads of engineering at my university, even more than the MEs. They have great personal and networking skills and have gotten great jobs from it.

it's not an academic field, because it doesn't study shit
it's the holy grail of technical careers, works wonders to make money

>I know were the chads of engineering at my university
irrelevant during a career
>gotten great jobs from it.
no progression in engineering knowledge and not a whole lot of engineering technical skills

I disagree. It studies the science of optimization and modeling/simulation for one. Also you need to know a good amount about probability and stats

what the fuck are you even saying? fuck off tripfaggot