<p>Obviously many of us here will try to defend our own majors, so I will try to give an honest and objective answer here. To start off, I live another flatement who is studying BioMedical Engineering and I am Aeronautical Engineering. We are all seniors and thus are taking advanced courses in our respected majors. I would say the amount of studying I needed to do is far beyond his. I’ve had this discussion with him before, and he says he generally feels BME being quite easy, given that most of the advanced courses in engineering aren’t too math bound and computational, and many other courses involve biology, chemistry and physiology. Although I believe some of the courses are fascinating. A word of advice he has given me is that BME is a dying major unless you decide to continue on with grad school. More and more companies realize that the focus of BME just isn’t what industry needs. Now I know many of you may think I am being foolish and am just trying to glorify my own major here. But take this for an example: GE Healthcare has stopped hiring BME graduates, and favour engineers with Mechanical Engineering degrees to work undertheir healthcare division. Why? It’s because a engineering job that’s with biomedical discipline can still be done better with an engineer who has taken more engineering courses, all the fundamentals are still required. The same analogy applies say if a zoo was hiring a zookeeper, who would the boss hire? An aerospace engineer or a biomedical engineer - obviously the BE as he had taken more biology courses. </p>
<p>I just recently graduated and I wish everyone could think wisely choosing a major in engineering. I think many colleges and universities do not stress just how important and almost life changing it is to choose a program in engineering. You see, unlike college of letters and science, where if you got a degree in say History, or Political Science, these majors would not define what your actual professions will be. This is the opposite for us engineers, the minute we start our major, we already have set foot in our professional career for at least a good number of years, if not for the rest of our lives. I have had so many friends telling me that after finishing their degrees with ME, they have finally realised they hate the degree but are now obliged to work as engineers. When you say you are studying engineering, although the general public views it to be all the same, it is completely and utterly different. If you believe you want to be an engineer, and pursue a degree solely in the field of engineering but yet to know exactly which direction you want to go into, I would recommend an engineering degree that’s extremely holistic and intensely disciplined for undergraduate, such as Mechanical Engineering, or Engineering Mechanics, or even aerospace engineering (i feel confident about this, as I have had many interviews applying for mechanical engineering jobs where I satisfied all the job expectations). Overall, these majors will aid you in finding jobs much quicker as these majors cover overall fundamentals of engineering disciplines. For example, I had another friend who studied civil engineering, who, when both of us were studying for the FE exam, admitted that his major did not require thermodynamics and heat transfer (which was a shock to me because I had thought that was a general engineering course). So he had to learn it himself, which obviously was difficult!</p>