<p>What is the funnest engineering major. I heard mechanical engineering was a lot more fun than all the other majors because you can design and build cool stuff. Is there any truth to this?</p>
<p>Do Aerospace!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111oneone. thats where the future lies.</p>
<p>With 9/11, the Shuttle Crash and 7 trillion dollar trade deficit?
I doubt that.</p>
<p>o
hmm....
Now i need to reconsider where my life is going...</p>
<p>budget deficit not trade deficit</p>
<p>Wow, I hope that was a joke asim.</p>
<p>haha yeah my life is ruined too. im just going to have to forget my dreams ;)</p>
<p>with SpaceShipOne and Virgin Galactic? I'd agree. Space isn't going to just 'go away'. And it's not like 9/11 involved a spaceship or caused the complete collapse of any airlines.</p>
<p>there's a budget deficit and a trade gap......in case anyone still cared</p>
<p>I didn't mean that you shouldn't want to major in aerospace. I like airplanes, ships and space vehicles but the only reason I don't want to major in it is because there isn't alot of room for innovation(i.e. reduced govt. spending on NASA, reduced revenue for airline companies, etc.) However, I could be wrong. If private companies (Virgin Galactic for example) decides to create spaceships independently of any governemet than their could be room for plenty of advancement and innovation. From what it looks like today it just seems as if there are more opportunities on the ground than in the air.</p>
<p>Well NASA may be losing prominence, but they're also losing employees. If I'm not totally screwing up some articles I read a few months ago, being a rocket scientist used to be way cool because of the lunar landings and all that...but the people who worked in the field back then are getting older and started to retire, so NASA is looking for younger people to employ.</p>
<p><em>shrug</em> Doesn't prove anything or solve any debates, but I thought I might throw the thought out there.</p>
<p>-Laura</p>
<p>"When an old scientist says that something cannot be done or that innovation has stopped, a young scientist is already showing that it can be done and innovation never stops."
--My Physics Teacher</p>
<p>"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
-- Arthur Clarke</p>
<p>Aeronautics!!!!!!!</p>
<p>From what I have seen Mechanical Engineering isn't that hard at MIT compared to EECS, Aero/Astro and ChemE. It's the major that pretty much everyone who is doing it recommends. It's respected AND doesn't have you pulling an insane amount of all-nighters.</p>
<p>(I am majoring in CS by the way)</p>
<p>I heard thermo engineering was cool cuz you get to do studd with fire and melting things, etc.</p>
<p>Course 2 is very popular and along with C6 constitutes the stereotype of MIT students. B/w 2 & 6, I'd guess you'd have roughly half of all MIT undergrads. I've never heard of thermo engineering.</p>
<p>Course 19 - Applied Mechanical Engineering.</p>
<p>;-)</p>
<p>I know MIT is the best place for those interested in CS (course 6)
but what about course 2 (mech. eng.). Is MIT a good place for those interested in this field and how good is it compared to other colleges.</p>
<p>It is a great school for Mechanical Engineering, possibly the best. It is probably ranked first by USNews.</p>
<p>MIT is ranked number one in Mech E by USNews, as well as #1 in Aero/Astro, computer, electrical, chemical, and nuclear engineering. It is ranked number #2 in enviromental and materials engineering. Rankings can only tell you so much really, but they do show that MIT has one of the top engineering programs in the country, probably the best.</p>