<p>Hello, I am currently looking at different engineering degrees to choose from. When I am finished I would very much like a job where I work much on my own with calculations etc., are there any of these jobs? And in which engineering dicipline can they be found?</p>
<p>Engineering is really about teamwork. Id look at a pure science.</p>
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I would very much like a job where I work much on my own with calculations
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Be an accountant.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice guys, but accounting doesn't have that advanced mathematics(and I don't really like economics), and I am also interested in physics. But I want to work with practical problems and I think(I'm not sure) that this is mostly in the engineering field. Are there really none of these jobs?</p>
<p>Hmmm so you want to do math and physics? Im pretty sure mathematicians and physicists both work on calculations, analytical or theoretical.</p>
<p>I definitely wouldn't look at engineering if you're aiming to work alone. As i586 said, it really is all about working with others, whether it be co-workers or clients. And I'm not sure if there's an engineering field which is heavily focused on calculations. While it's usually an integral part, the focus is usually on finding solutions to problems and coming up with ideas rather than just working with numbers.</p>
<p>Can I ask why you want such a job? I don't find it too appealing personally.</p>
<p>It looks like that you want to open up a consulting firm as an engineering consultant. You could pursue degree in Civil , Mechanical ,Electrical or Computer Engineering and others. You could become very familiar with certain design code/software that you could provide a cost effective service.</p>
<p>He'd still need to work with people, but he wants to work alone.</p>
<p>Ofcourse working all alone is unrealistic in any profession, even in accounting as far as I know. But I have something called Asperger's syndrome so my communications skills are limited, for instance chit-chatting is horrifying for me. So I'd like to find jobs that consist of much working on your own, but ofcourse social interaction is something you need in every job.
So maybe you could tell me about the engineer jobs that has the most "individual" activity.
The reason engineering looks so interesting is that I get to see the results of my work. I have looked at physics programmes but the usually teach a lot of theories that will change eventually.
But maybe there are some physics programmes for me. What I like best in physics are: mechanics(working with forces, movement etc.), electricity and electrical fields, thermophysics, doing some calculations with gasses and fluids(I'm not sure what this is called), and mechanical energy(very easy compared to what engineering in university is ofcourse since I'm not at university yet)</p>
<p>What I disliked was: nuclear and atom physics, quantum physics, and astrophysics(the name sound cool but jeez it's a boring subject=)).</p>
<p>Any input would be greatly appreciated!=)</p>
<p>just major in applied mathematics join the NSA and break code the entire day.</p>
<p>"or shoot your buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? You could be elected president. "</p>
<p>anyone who gets the name of that movie gets a million points.</p>
<p>God Will Hunting if I recall correctly.</p>
<p>best movie ever</p>
<p>I actually have a suggestion. I know someone whose father is a analyst on wall street. What he does is use extremely long and complex mathematical equations to figure if stocks will go up or down. Works from home.</p>
<p>Breaking code all day sounds boring. Also I don't think I have the skills to be a good mathematicion. The Wall Street job sounds interesting, but I to work on something concrete. </p>
<p>The university I'm looking at has a lot of specialisations in mechanical engineering, but one that looked very interesting was to choose industrial mechanics(this was rather small compared to the other specialisations) and then calculatingoriented mechanics.(I don't know what the word is exactly in english I translated it straight forward.) This is not that important right now since you choose spesialisations in third or fourth year(the programme is five years). But has anyone seen any subjects like this in the US?</p>
<p>You could major in mechanical engineering and do computational fluid dynamics,
CAD, heat transfer or finite element analysis. You could also do design calculation of air-conditioning for building or apartment complex. Wind load on building calculation also use specific code.</p>
<p>After doing some more research I found out that what I was wrinting about in the last post was actually called computational mechanics.
Does anyone here work with that and can say something about it?
I sent a mail to one guy at the university and he said that for instancedoing structural work or working with energysystems would be good.</p>
<p>But can anyone here tell me about the different jobs mechanical engineers got from people with applied mechanics?</p>
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