Mechanical or Industrial?

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<p>Hey I am currently a highschool senior who will most likely (if all goes well) be enrolling in industrial engineering at uoft next year. But fortunately due to the curriculum of the program after first year I can opt to switch into mechanical since the courses are the same for first year. </p>

<p>I am interested in industrial because I am a social person, I enjoy math, and making things more efficient appeals to me. However I also really like physics. So I have a bit of a dilemma, do I go into industrial and never look at physics again or do I go into mechanical. And is enjoying physics and math enough to pursue mechanical engineering? </p>

<p>I've never really built or designed anything with my hands before and almost everyone who wants to go into mech seems to have this quality. Although when i read about the topics within mechanical engineering and they sound interesting.</p>

<p>Any opinions or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.</p>

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<p>Take into account what you like better and job outlook (bls.gov). I my opinion, if you’re interested in major A a little more than major B and major B has significantly better job outlooks, then go for major B. Mechanical engineering is broad and you can design most things on the computer or on graph paper. You might make a prototype or send your work to a team to make it for you. I’m not sure about Industrial Engineering and I’m not even sure if it’s even really engineering at all. But yeah you can take my advice about picking majors or not, but it’s up to you.</p>

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<p>thanks skbryan…yeah I’m not to concerned about the whole job outlook thing I’m more concerned about what I will enjoy doing. Do mechanical engineers deal with people a lot?</p>

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<p>Every Engineer has to deal with people a lot no matter what field. Also if you are interested in process optimization look into chemical engineering as well.</p>