I have done all kinds of research to figure out which one I should go into, but I have no idea. I have a friend who did electrical and he said its really cool. What should I do?
Look at the kinds of jobs each leads to. Which sounds most like something you would enjoy?
Have you taken physics 1 (mechanics) and 2 (electricity /magnetism)? Which did you like better?
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This is like asking “Should I buy vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream?”
Without some context and a lot more information about yourself, there is literally no way anybody can answer this. They’re both good options or bad options, depending on your goals and interests. What specifically do you want to know?
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Well, I would like to work on biomedical technology or either robotics would be quite interesting. I would like to know which will have a better career outcome? And especially, what do you do as a mechanical engineer, and what about an electical engineer.
Look at Indeed or LinkedIn. What jobs are asking for a MechE or EE degree?
This is going to sound quant, but mechanical engineers work with mechanical things, stuff that moves. Electrical engineers electrify things. Most can easily distinguish between interest in one versus the other based simply on how tangible they are. Biomedical and Robotics both employ MEs and EEs. Some MEs get pretty broad exposure to circuits and controls, and vice versa for EEs and You need to decide what you want to do within either of those fields. A simple Google search for “what do electrical engineers do?” and ditto Mechanical will answer your question. To complicate things, there’s LOTS you can do within each. Thankfully, that’s something you can decide later.