MechE major, Comp Sci. minor

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<p>I am interested and plan to major in mechE. However, I am slowly finding out there are some job constraints with mechE and that wages are not as high compared to other engineering majors. </p>

<p>So sticking to mechE, I was looking at specialization options to attract more demand and money. So I'm planning to minor in comp sci. because not only is it so widely used in today's world but CS guys seem to get the highest wages. </p>

<p>From here, I plan to specialize in mechatronics. I think CS will help create mechanical systems that are automatic. Mechatronics is like control automation engineering. Can you guys help me analyze this option. Will this option actually give me what I am looking for? Will Comp Sci. as a minor provide me the benefits I am looking for? Can it be integrated with mechE?</p>

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<p>i am pretty sure other guys will give you more refined and detailed advice to your question, but i will add my 2c. </p>

<p>before you keep thinking about doing mechatronics, i'd like to know what kind of companies in specific you are thinking of working for anyway.</p>

<p>you mentioned, money...and,</p>

<p>according to cornell CS survey, out of 24 who took the survey and were employed, roughly half of them were IT analysts/consultants hired by goldman, PwC, UBS, Lehman, and engineers hired by Microsoft.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/statistics/upload/CompSci-BS-ONLY-06.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/statistics/upload/CompSci-BS-ONLY-06.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>these types of companies (Microsoft, Google, Goldman, PwC) are the ones that's going to pay you the most if you graduate w/ CS degree...</p>

<p>anyway, if you are looking to be employed by those high-paying, "tier-1" companies hiring CS guys, i can hardly imagine them caring about your mechanical eng. skills at all</p>

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<p>Hey thanks for your reply xjis. You are leaning towards how mechE can be used in computer science. I'm looking at it the other way. How cam computer science be used in mechE.
I guess this comes down to robotics. Do you know how the scope for robotics is? What companies might recuit you? How are the starting salaries??
And how cam I go into electronics industries with mechanical engineering?? People's input would be great.</p>