<p>Which program to choose for university. </p>
<p>I am deciding between electrical engineering, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems design engineering, software engineering, mechanical engineering, or mechatronics. </p>
<p>which field has the most potential both in jobs availibility and in salaries. </p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>mech E is like the wildcard engineering degree. id go for that one.</p>
<p>If you choose computer engineering, you can do work in electrical engineering, software engineering, and systems design engineering.</p>
<p>If you choose electrical engineering, you can do computer engineering, systems design engineering, and most likely software engineering.</p>
<p>If you do mechanical engineering, you can do industrial engineering, systems design engineering, and mechatronics (where are the jobs for this? no idea)</p>
<p>If you do industrial engineering, you can do systems design engineering, perhaps some basic mechanical engineering, nothing more.</p>
<p>If you do software engineering, you can get into computer engineering with experience.</p>
<p>Salary wise - out of that list, electrical/computer/software engineers make the most. It will depend on the location, your performance in college, previous internship experience, your ability to climb up the ladder at the workplace, etc.</p>
<p>I find that most mechanical engineering students work in manufacturing. I interned at an aircraft company this past summer, and let me tell you none of the MechE's were doing any "hardcore" design - rather slight modifications. It may not be all cracked up to be, unless you work for NASA, where cutting edge MechE topics are used. Manufacturing jobs are slowly creeping out overseas, where it's cheaper to manufacture goods. Think China, for example. You can never go wrong if you enter manufacturing with Boeing, Hawker Beechcraft, Learjet, Cessna - as those aircraft company manufacturing will primarily be done here in the US (either in KS or Washington State).</p>
<p>Go to any technology-based company's career's website, most of the technical jobs will be for EEs (CEs can apply too). Look at companies that employ a wide variety of engineers.</p>
<p>I also read an article that civil engineer graduates will be needed shortly (I think USA Today)?</p>
<p>Background - I am an EE student, just FYI so you know I may or may not be promoting my own field. If you have any questions about EE/CE, let me know.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>i know it is almost the same, but if i had to choose between electrical eng degree or computer eng. degree, which one should i choose?</p>
<p>How useful is applied math? Or for that matter applied physics?</p>
<p>From the list before, tell me what may interest you:</p>
<p>Here's the list (I didn't make this up - I found it somewhere):</p>
<p>COMPUTER ENGINEERING is centered in digital design, computer architecture, and computer applications. This includes circuits and devices, computer systems, and engineering software systems. Computers pervade virtually every aspect of our lives, and the field of computer engineering is moving to the forefront of our increasingly technology driven world. Computer engineering encompasses and interacts with a broad range of other ECE specialties, from microelectronics technology to telecommunications to engineering software development.</p>
<pre><code>* Computer Architecture
* Embedded Systems and Software
* Design Tools, Test and Verification
* Computer Networks and lnternetworking
* Distributed Systems and Software
* VLSI Design
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<p>DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (DSP) is concerned with the representation of signals in digital form, and with the transformation of such signal representations using digital computation. DSP is at the core of virtually all of today's information technology, and its impact is felt everywhere – in telecommunications, medical technology, radar and sonar, and in seismic data analysis. ECE offers the largest undergraduate and graduate DSP academic programs in the country, providing a strong foundation in all aspects of digital signal processing.</p>
<pre><code>* DSP Theory
* Image and Video Signal Processing
* Multimedia Signal Processing and Networking
* Signal Processing for Communications and Security .
* Radar and Array Processing .
* Speech and Audio Processing .
* Statistical Signal Processing .
* Hardware/Software Systems for Signal Processing
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<p>ELECTRIC POWER is primarily concerned with meeting the future demand for electric energy while satisfying environmental constraints. Instruction and research is conducted in power systems, electric energy conversion, power electronics, high-voltage engineering, electric power materials and semiconductors.</p>
<pre><code>* Power System Monitoring, Analysis Protection, Operation and Control
* Distributed Generation
* Power System Simulation and Visualization
* High Voltage Engineering and Power System Components
* Electric Machine Control, Condition and Monitoring and Protection
* Power Electronics
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<p>ELECTROMAGNETICS involves the study of basic principles of electricity and magnetism and their application to the analysis and design of devices and systems. Applications of electromagnetics encompass such far-reaching areas as microwave communications, antenna design, microwave millimeter engineering, and remote sensing. These cutting edge technologies are applied to national defense and security, the space program, and every form of commercial communications.</p>
<pre><code>* Microwave Circuits
* Remote Sensing of Obscured Targets
* RadioScience, Plantary Remote Sensing, and Space Communications
* Analysis and Design of Antennas
* Computational Techniques for Electromagnetics
* Signal- tntegrity in Digital and Mixed Signal Systems .
* Terrestrial Radio Wave Propagation
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<p>ELECTRONIC DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS involves device and integrated circuit fabrication, circuit and system design and simulation, and instrumentation and testing techniques. Areas of emphasis include the design, fabrication, testing and application of analog and digital integrated circuits and systems and high frequency circuits and systems.</p>
<pre><code>* MEMs Circuit Technology
* Analog VLSI
* Radio Frequency/VVireless Integrated Circuits (RFIC)
* High Speed Mixed Signal
* Analog
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<p>MICROSYSTEMS is concerned with the design, analysis, growth, and fabrication of micron/sub-micron feature length devices. These devices are the key enabling technology for the integrated circuits and systems that form the basis of most contemporary electronic products. Areas of emphasis include semiconductor devices, packaging technology, and materials growth and characterization.</p>
<pre><code>* Microsystems and Nanosystems
* Photovoltaics
* Microelectronics Systems Packaging
* Manufacturing and Gigascale Integration
* Compound Semiconductors
* Biomedical Microsystems
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<p>OPTICS AND PHOTONICS involves the study of lasers, optical data processing, nonlinear optics, optical communications, optical_ computing, optical data storage, optical system design and holography. Areas of emphasis include volume holography studies, hybrid optical digital data processing, image processing and the study of optic properties of materials.</p>
<pre><code>* Optical Communication Networks
* Nonlinear Optics
* Photonics and optoelectronics
* Diffractive and holographic optics
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<p>SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS is concerned with mathematical and computational techniques for modeling, estimation, realization, identification and design of feedback control of physical systems and processes. Applications include missile tracking and guidance, robotic control, stabilization and model reduction of power systems.</p>
<pre><code>* Mathematical systems theory
* Discrete event systems and hybrid system
* Nonlinear control
* Computer vision
* Intelligent control
* Sensor technologies
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<p>TELECOMMUNICATIONS is concerned with the characterization, representation, transmission, storage, and networking of information over various media including space, optical fiber, and cable. Harnessing technologies from areas such as digital signal processing, computer engineering, controls, and optics, telecommunications plays a defining role in information technology applications such as mobile communications, wireless local area networks, television, and telephony.</p>
<pre><code>* Wireless Communications and Networking
* Communication Theory
* Information Theory and Adaptive Systems
* Multimedia Networking
* Inter-networking, Network Management, and Network Security
* Optical Networks
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<p>i have never worked in the fields below but all of them seem interesting. So which field has the most jobs and best salaries in your opinion?</p>
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I find that most mechanical engineering students work in manufacturing.
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With the people I know, there isn't any one field that mechEs tend to flock to, though I'm basing this on a limited sample size. They went into aerospace, construction management, power systems, finance, real estate development, industrial engineering. I don't know anybody that went into manufacturing actually, though I'm sure there are quite a few out there.</p>
<p>if i had to choose between electrical eng degree or computer eng. degree, which one should i choose?</p>
<p>Not sure if you have time, but my daughter went to an engineering camp and ruled out chemical and electrical as a result. My son, went to one thinking he'd go chemical and came away thinking mechanical. Any workshops of "hands on" things you can do might help you decide.</p>
<p>It all can't sound interesting... well, perhaps if you read it here, but when you sit down and actually learn the fundamentals, it can get pretty boring/tedious.</p>
<p>So considering I have not experienced any of the jobs, which job is not tedious/boring and has good job prospects and good salary potential?</p>
<p>Doesn't Chemical Engineering pay the most?</p>