<p>Sorry if some information was posted in older threads but the search wasn't working for me today.</p>
<p>Can someone tell me more about the MechE undergrad at Berkeley?</p>
<p>i've looked it up and it says its #3 in the nation behind Stanford and MIT so i know that its definitely excellent but what else is there to know?</p>
<p>most people tend to see EECS as the prominent engineering major at Berkeley and i haven't found many people talking about mechanical. is it seen as a less-respected major? job opportunities? a lot easier than EECS? </p>
<p>anything you guys know about Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley would be greatly appreciated. :)</p>
<p>I’m not an expert on ME, but I have looked into it recently. </p>
<p>The reason ME is not as hot as EECS is because it’s such an old discipline that its hard to find something new to do in ME. Our current society is uses so many mechanical mechanisms that its not as easy to come up with new mechanical devices. Mechanical Engineering, I have to say, is probably the most traditional of the engineering fields, meaning it is typically the first type of engineering people think of whenever people talk about engineering.</p>
<p>Being one of the oldest engineering disciplines, there is a lot of things in engineering that need a background in mechanical engineering. With ME, you can use it as background to go into many different fields such as biomechanics, nanotechnology, robotics, etc. </p>
<p>The problem with ME is that you probably need to specialize in something else to be marketable on the job market, such as biomechanics, computer science, chemistry, etc.
ME is more a tool of new technology than the main subject, as in its very useful to know but it is not the focus. I do imagine job opportunities would be plentiful, but for all these jobs you would probably require some other knowledge.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that the ME program is much less competitive than EECS since people still feel that EECS is a hot field with lots of future potential. On a side note, a good proportion of Berkeley’s BioE faculty used to be part of its ME department, which may explain why Berkeley’s BioE program is so widespread.</p>
<p>From an outsider view after reading dill_scout posts and s1185 post about bioE. It seems like a good idea to just get a mechE degree because it is useful, and you are an undergrad after all.</p>