<p>How important is the official title of your degree? Does having a bachelor in engineering and specializing in a certain subject really inferior to having a degree with an official name. For example is having a degree in engineering and specializing in mechanisms worse than having a degree in mechanical engineering? Will the title affect how employers look at me?</p>
<p>Is it the best offered by your college and is it equivalent, curriculum-wise, to engineering B.S. degrees offered by other universities? If you can answer yes to these two questions, then you should be fine. HMC for example, only offers a general engineering degree with specializations.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if your college offers a mechanical engineering degree and you chose to take up “engineering with specialization in mechanisms”, then it obviously raises questions. And if it only amounts to an engineering technology degree rather than engineering, then we’re talking about an entirely different skill set and job market. You most likely won’t be able to trick employers into thinking it’s an engineering degree because those that recruit at your college will be at least somewhat familiar with the offerings.</p>
<p>^ Agree.
First, compare that curriculum with its traditional counterpart. For example, if your case, “some specializing in mechanisms” vs “mechanical engineering”.
Is it really an engineering program? Are you talking about a technical degree? This is the kind of question you really to find out.</p>
<p>Depends on what career path you are interested in, sometime degree title may not matter at all. HOWEVER, degree title means that you have taken certain courses, and the knowledge you attain will have an impact in determining a career path.</p>
<p>A technician in computer system is not a computer engineer. The technician can’t even design the computer architecture. They probably don’t even know how to design good and efficient circuit logics.</p>
<p>Employers don’t care that much about titles. If you demonstrate you can do the work they require better than others, you’ll be hired.</p>