Engineering in general

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<p>Gosh, after some of the engineering 101 lectures and lab at my school, I'm unsure of what sort of engineering I really want. </p>

<p>I'm currently doing Computer Engineering. I don't mind sitting in front of a computer and solving problems (I enjoy that. I enjoy math and physics.) However, during our lab we're working on a code to program the robotic arm to place dominoes and create the domino effect, for me coding is very dull. I know this is big part of CS/CompE and sometimes I don't mind it but gosh, it's taking us forever to make the arm place the domino piece without making it fall and there are human errors as well stacking and stuff. And then after that, I've been thinking of switching my major, possibly EE or Biomedical Eng(because I don't mind the work I guess, it's just I don't see myself sitting in front of a computer doing coding. I'd rather solve problems or puzzles whilst sitting in front of the computer or work on a hardware aspect). Or just stick with the major until I've actually taken Java or C and see if I like it or not from there.</p>

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<p>What type of problems do you like solving?</p>

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<p>My girlfriend's biggest complaint about EE is the lack of actual hands-on activities and how so much of it is just sitting at a computer.</p>

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<p>I like solving physics and math problems. I like solving puzzles and debates. </p>

<p>Like interesting things that often relate to life and just math because it's fun. </p>

<p>Coding is like a new level of problem solving, something I'm not sure I would like to do.</p>

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<p>Sorry, real life engineering is worse than the labs.</p>

<p>If you think you'll use fluid mechanics to solve chemical engineering problems (or whatever the equivalent is in computer engineering), think again. We don't do all that fancy fluid mechanics calculations. We literally take the sum of the pipe flows as equal to the change in volume of a tank.</p>

<p>All the fancy math calculations are done by computers.</p>

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<p>If you can find them (your school's alum network, perhaps?), talk to practitioners in the different engineering fields, and find out what their professional lives are like. That may help you decide what sounds most appealing.</p>

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<p>The funny thing about the lab is, I suppose I'm not even doing really coding. We just moving the arm by the computer and adding scripts. It's like move, add script. move, add script. There's almost no critical thinking involved besides deciding where to move it too and having to be too precise. (If anyone knows, I'm using Robix Rascal Arm).</p>

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<p>I can't see how anyone could find either EE or comp e interesting. ChemE seems boring as well.</p>

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I can't see how anyone could find either EE or comp e interesting.

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<p>And I don't see how someone could derive pleasure from watching other people play sports. Different strokes for different folks.</p>

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<p>Well that's your problem. The pleasure isn't derived, but rather received by osmosis.</p>

<p>But seriously I can see why someone wouldn't like watching sports. Sports competition is so pointless when you think about it. But I still can't see how someone can find circuits, code, or computer hardware interesting.</p>