<p>Everything I have seen so far in the real working world of engineering heavily emphasizes having a swiss army knife of specialized skills you can only truly hone through work/hobby/multiple projects over a period of several years or more. You simply do not learn most topics well enough in semester long undergraduate classes to be a master of anything. If I were an employer and I saw an ME/AE double my first question would be, “so what can you actually do?” The students I saw this past year from my AE department and from tau beta pi (all engineering disciplines) getting the most lucrative jobs and internships weren’t double majors or honors students, instead they had extracurricular jobs/projects/hobbies where they learned and/or put into practice a skillset and/or took very specialized masters level courses.</p>