Energy Engineering?

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<p>I've been looking at colleges and schools lately and I am very interested in becoming an Engineer. Stanford and UC Berkeley are the two main schools that I've been looking at and they both have similar programs for "Energy Engineering." Berkeley's is under the Engineering Science classification, and is just called Energy Engineering. Stanford's is in the college of Earth Sciences, and is called Energy Resources Engineering. Frankly, Berkeley's sounds a bit more intriguing. I am interested in a career in alternative energy, whether it be solar, wind, or even developing technologies such as molecular systems or other things. I would love to work for a small start-up company, or even start my own company. Though, to start my own I would probably have to go to grad school and start doing a lot of research, which I am fine with. However, I hear that most employers don't want to hire someone with a major in Engineering Science, when they could just hire a "real" engineer. This is why I was thinking about double majoring in Mechanical Engineering AND Energy Engineering, or perhaps Chemical and Energy. What do you think about this? I want to have strong hopes of getting a well-paying job after college, but like I said before, research and start-ups are also an option. Recommendations? </p>

<p>If all else fails, I'll probably just major in EECS.</p>

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<p>You could do that with just about any engineering degree. Engineers are problem solvers, and big problems have many parts crossing various disciplines.</p>

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<p>The problem is, I don’t know exactly what I want to do with alt. energy, so I don’t know exactly what field of engineering to go into. That’s why I thought energy engineering would be a good choice. It’s pretty interdisciplinary.</p>

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<p>What do you guys think about a major in Energy Engineering with a Computer Science major through the College of Engineering? Either that or a double major.</p>