<p>I'm attending GT next year, and I'm trying to find out what Engineering major is right for me. Don't get me wrong though: I'm trying to narrow down my options, NOT deciding if engineering as a whole is good for me. I love engineering, I just realize I can't do everything. </p>
<p>For this, because I'm committed to GT, I would really appreciate it if you could put your answers in context of GT (but any answers are appreciated! :))</p>
<p>So, I've narrowed (and I use that word very, very loosely) down what I think I would enjoy to: Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. I'm really more of a math/physics guy, so I'm looking for a ton of that in what I pick. But also consider that I DEFINITELY want to go to grad and (possibly) doctoral school.</p>
<p>If that’s all you have to go on, I would say EE, maybe ME. AE and BMED: you need the passion for those topics, as they are both extra demanding.</p>
<p>Well, right now I’m in AP Physics B and so I’ve been exposed to many of the spectrum of physics, and I really enjoyed mechanics as a whole, and we’re just getting into EMag (we did it last year but not as in depth as this year.) I really liked fluid mechanics as well, and I thought optics was okay. I liked waves though. Heat Transfer/Thermodynamics was okay at times. [All descriptions are not in context of difficulty, but how I actually enjoyed the subject area.]</p>
<p>How is AE/BME extra demanding? Please correct me if I’m wrong (and I don’t say that in a demeaning tone, you probably know more than me) but isn’t AE a branch of ME? Also, does BME require mass memorizing (in comparison to history/biology classes)? I believe I’m a hard worker, so if it’s what I might like, I don’t care.</p>
<p>If you want to ask me any more broad or specific questions that may help, please ask!</p>
<p>If you’re not really sure what you’re going to like, it might be a good idea to go with ME or EE because they’re broad and there are a lot of different fields you can get into. If your plan is to go to grad school, it would make the most sense to pick something more broad, because you will have a good idea what you like by the time you start applying to grad school and can easily specialize.</p>
<p>AE is related to ME but there is not actually a lot of overlap in the classes you take other than the basic classes most engineers take. The rest are pretty specific to AE. A similar relationship exists with EE and CompE - they’re related but CompE classes are pretty specific. An ME could cross over into AE easier than the reverse.</p>
<p>You are interested in all of those, but they are completely different. Any engineering major at tech will have a high volume of math and physics based classes, so you will, i suppose, enjoy them. There is a future for all of them, and with that said I think it just comes down to whatever interests you the most. I personally think mechanical or areospace engineering would be interesting.</p>
<p>On a side note, has anyone heard of double majoring CompE/EE? Is it hard to double major in these two disciplines? Their course catalog seems as though it isn’t, but I’d like to know from the inside if it is. (I know that any major at GT is hard; I’m asking in context of double majoring.)</p>
<p>BS/MS is much better than BS/BS. I once heard: would you earn two high school diplomas? Employers are much more impressed with a higher degree than a second degree. Anybody ever get any press for climbing Everest a second time? ;-)</p>