<p>My school doesn't offer any engineering classes, but I am very good at math and physics.
But in Geometry we had these things where you get cubes and you the top, bottom, and left view of a set of cubes and have to draw the right side of it, and the teacher said engineering involves a lot of concepts such as that and I hated it. </p>
<p>That’s a very simplistic view of engineering and it is only mechanically oriented. The best way to find out want an engineer does is to talk to one. Remember that there are various types of engineering, mechanical (more general design), civil (more oriented towards roads and bridges), chemical (industrial processes), materials (self-explanatory), electrical (power, wireless and electronics), and computer (hardware design). I have clearly oversimplified the various disciplines and I have likely neglected a few. You have to do some research on your own…</p>
<p>Spatial awareness is a good skill to have as mechanical engineer, however, it isn’t required for a lot of engineering fields. I found research to be confusing because engineers are very broad and diversified. Even two engineers in the same field may be doing completely different projects. You need first hand experience. Maybe a tour of a plant, or as xraymancs suggest, talk to an engineer. </p>
<p>Aptitude is useful, but drive is what turned students to engineers. A lot of kids with lower aptitudes will become engineers when others don’t because they have the passion to sustain with the long hours of studying and the difficult courseload . </p>
<p>Well, you claim to be very good at math and physics which is the core framework for all of the engineering disciplines so I’d say you are on the right track. When it comes to what your teacher stated, I wouldn’t relate all of engineering to that one geometric principle in any way. </p>
<p>On the college board website under college planning- explore majors and careers, there is a great database of ALL of the different types of engineering disciplines. And once you chose the type of engineering you want to learn more about, you can scroll to the bottom and choose “explore in-depth in myRoad”. Here you can learn what classes you can end up taking, read about different students in that discipline and where they went after college, and you can even take a personality quiz to learn about what may fit you career-wise. It’s a great resource and it actually helped me decide what I wanted to study in college!</p>
<p>And by the way, I didn’t like Geometry either :)</p>
<p>If it makes any difference, I’ll be going for Nuclear Engineering. </p>