I will be working towards a bachelors degree in either mechanical engineering and engineering management and was wondering which is a better major? I’d getting a job in engineering management difficult right out of college?
I don’t even know why they offer engineering management as a standalone undergraduate degree. I can’t imagine a company being interested in that.
Yeah. It’s a new degree offered by Arizona and Michigan. That was my thought also 10s4life but just thought I’d ask since that is what I would like to do.
Personally, I think mechanical engineering is the bee’s knees.
But I am biased.
Typically a teen’s experiences would be too limited to know for sure that engineering management is the ultimate goal. Explain more about the appeal, and then maybe we can advise better.
i never said it was my ultimate goal I said it is something I would like to do.
Highly unlikely you’d ever get an engineering management job right out of college. Definitely not in any company I know of. In fact, an engineering management degree would have been cause for me to immediately round file your resume. I wouldn’t have a position for a person with such a degree and no experience.
Engineering management might make a good minor, but as a major I can’t see the practicality in it.
I doubt it would even make a good minor. A good professional master’s degree, perhaps.
Ok thanks everyone! I kinda thought the same but just wanted to run it by someone who actually knew.
I am pretty sure the engineering management degree is intended for project planners/managers and possibly jobs like product supply managers. Basically people who help technical engineers interface with each other and with business functions in a company.