RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Imagine if Reco hits and the following happens ...Yep - my degree is in Mechanical Eng but career as Petroleum. Any engineering graduate can go to work in any discipline and assimilate easily - any engineering m degree covers basic principals that can be applied anywhere. The students in Petroleum schools floats up and down with the oil prices. In the bust of the early 80's enrollments dropped and folks thought there would be no future for petroleum grads.