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Mechanical Engineering viable?

Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 02:11:40 2021 No.12632897 View Reply Original Report

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Is mechanical engineering a good field of engineering to work in and make a good living or is there other stuff that is better? Picking major in engineering but unsure if making smart choice.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 02:23:08 No.12632919 Report

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mechanical engineering is really easy to take for granted, but has been responsible for endless clever devices. from my understanding that extends to the engineer themselves, where they come up with something brilliant and then get told to do it again. i definitely respect them though.

the smart choice is electrical engineering. it's almost a catch all at this point because the field is so broad. i work on rf imaging applications, image post-processing, custom hardware, microcontroller stuff

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 02:27:14 No.12632932 Report

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>>12632897
Mech. has better transferable skills to white collar engineering jobs (drafting, planning) than Elec. but if you don't manage the transfer in your 30s-40s you will probably make a lot less money overall.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 05:10:42 No.12633267 Report

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>>12632897
No.

t. licensed mechanical engineer

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 05:23:43 No.12633294 Report

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>>12632897
>>12632919
>the smart choice is electrical engineering
This is correct. Specifically specializing in an optical physics or optical engineering sub-field as you have done.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 06:36:44 No.12633413 Report

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>>12632919
The smartest choice is Aerospace and just enter a company to get hired

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 06:53:36 No.12633436 Report

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>>12632919
>it's almost a catch all at this point because the field is so broad
This also applies to mechanical. You can go from working on airconditioners to assembly lines to "generic" engineering design shit >>12632932

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 07:10:35 No.12633473 Report

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>>12633294
it is one of the hardest engineering majors though so be prepared if you go for EE

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 07:21:30 No.12633501 Report

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What do you guys think about aeronautical engineering? I picked it just because I thought it sounded cool but now I'm a year in and about to get filtered by physics and not really feeling the career at all. Should I just drop out or would I be fucking up if i did?

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 11:15:26 No.12633905 Report

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>>12632897

Yes, if you end up in the right job the work can be very diverse and brainchallenging.

Moneywise in Neurope: good salary for starters and overall good salary compared to an 'regular office job' hiwever there is a ceiling which is hard to break if you don't progress to a managing function.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 12:12:50 No.12634017 Report

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>>12632919
>>12632897
Youll have to become programmer anyways, with all that simulation and CAD knowledge
Youll work 99% on your computer and 1% if anything on an actual machine

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 12:36:50 No.12634040 Report

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>>12633501
It's a very niche field, you'l almost certainly be working for DoD if you follow through with it

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 14:04:26 No.12634209 Report

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>>12632897
I'm confident the three best college majors are computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Reason being is that most of what you use comes from one of those three disciplines.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:12:05 No.12635221 Report

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what do i study for vehicle suspension geometries?

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:16:02 No.12635230 Report

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What is the area of a rectangle with length 10 and width 6.9.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:36:10 No.12635272 Report

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>>12632897

Mechanical is definitely the best branch of engineering out there. Fairly straight forward and practical as well as lot of job options once you graduate (you can work in manufacturing, robotics, generic engineering design, aerospace, etc.)

>>12632919
>>12633294

EE is a shit field (I fell for the EE meme and have regretted it ever since). It is overly theoretical and concerned with useless crap like signal processing and matlab simulations. Anyone with a basic grasp of programming can do 99% of EE tasks.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:40:10 No.12635281 Report

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>>12635230
definite integral of the constant function 6.9 with respect to x with an upper bound of 10 and a lower bound of 0. I'm sure I helped you the rest is easy.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:41:21 No.12635287 Report

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>>12635272
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:52:44 No.12635328 Report

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>>12632897
If you're unsure about getting into an engineering field, then you shouldn't do it. Major in business or finance instead.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 22:24:48 No.12635424 Report

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>>12635287
naw, fuck that, EEs great. i'm glad i chose it. when i graduate with a PhD in a few months i'll be able to pick between half a dozen people to call up and walk in on the job the day after, from satellites for imaging or communications, to wireless power transfer, to getting funding to form my own company built off my research. it feels really good

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jan 2021 23:04:16 No.12635547 Report

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>>12632897
t. mech E undergrad senior
there's some really interesting stuff in fluids/thermal, more akin to physics. but a lot of my peers are also on track to be CAD monkeys

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