<p>I want to design things when I get older.
Like robots.
and Stuff like that.
lol.
Any advice?</p>
<p>mechanical, electrical, or computer science. do some research on each and see which you might enjoy most. try wiki</p>
<p>Well if you what to build stuff like robots, then think about what part of the would you what to work on. For example, if the what to design the actually software that the robot would use, in other words, the computer …then you would pick computer science. Now that software commands that the computer scientist/computer engineer design needs a system in which it will travel to send these commands(wires, circuits, power), now thats an eletrical enigneer. Now that the robot has commands and thing to transfer these command it needs an actually to do these command, now thats and mechnical engineer (the actually physical robot: arms, leg, body etc). </p>
<p>Its like a human, the computer scientist designs the brian, the EE design the internal organs, and the ME designs the physical human structure (arms, legs, head, joints, chest, etc.)</p>
<p>nice parse, arod1087.
Brian does have a brain. </p>
<p>DS (BS-ME, MS-CS but not heavy into programming) has gotten into robotics startup primarily because he got a mechanical undergrad RA, no pay, 1 credit per semester, which he didn’t need. 2-1/2 years later he has finished grad school and internships, he was looking for a position, and his undergrad prof was looking to help in a startup. He had worked for prof for nearly three years and did a lot of the drafting and of research. He knows more about what prof wants than prof’s phD candidates. His internships only had tangential relationship to what he will be doing.</p>
<p>Thus get a strong foundation and do a specialization as an extracurricular. DS had no real intentions in pursuing robotics but Human-Computer Interaction for which he has his CS master’s.</p>
<p>i’ve also been wondering about robotics engineering. Searched google, but can’t find much information about it (I guess bc its a new field?).<br>
what do you think job outlook is like (will outsourcing be a problem?)</p>