<p>Im definitely gonna get my bs in mechanical engineering but i dont know what i should get my masters in. Im thinking either Mechanical Engineering or Engineering Management. Would it be easy to find a job in engineering management? I really want a business side to my education and i think it would be great to get a masters in that. Is this a good idea and how hard would it be to find a job?</p>
<p>I’m going to guess that you are either very early in your college career or still in high school from the way you state your question.</p>
<p>Get your BS in ME. As you get into the upper division classes you’ll see the various areas within the general field of ME that are available. You can then decide which area to get your MS in.</p>
<p>Going straight thru getting a BS in ME and then a masters in Engineering Management would make your chances of getting employed about nil!!! I am a retired engineering that spent the middle of my career as an engineering manager. Anyone that went straight thru like that went right into the round file. I was hiring for an engineering position and I wanted someone who really wanted to do engineering and not someone who thought they were going to move to management ASAP. I made the mistake of hiring someone like that once and they were always wondering why they weren’t moving into doing management tasks when they hadn’t learned the engineering yet and didn’t yet have clue what personallity it took to be a manager. Why spend the time training them to do engineering? (and there is A LOT of training to mold a college grad into a usefull engineer, college just gives you a start at the profession)</p>
<p>No one that I know of would hire someone right out of college to be an engineering manager, you have no experience at either engineering or management.</p>
<p>Best bet is to get your MS in engineering and then get a job. Work a few years and see if you still like mamangement. I was in management dor a while and the role of manager was changing to more paper pushing and budgeting. Not my cup of tea, very boring to me. If you still want to go into management, then a degree in engineering management is in order (and your company may even pay for it).</p>
<p>Thank you for your input… i was really confused. I will probably get my masters in ME. Also how hard is it to get a job as a ME? I heard their was a lot of outsourcing going on. Will a Masters help me get a job? My last question is did you get promoted to management or did you go to school to get that position?</p>
<p>I agree with HPuck, but I’d suggest a good old MBA would do just fine and give you more options (and better training). Only former engineers think they have the answer to management, lol (sort of like how economists think they have the answer to all social science). But either way Gocubs, you need work experience first. </p>
<p>Gocubs94, why the need to think so far ahead? Step at a time. It will come to you in time for you to know what you want to do, but I actually don’t think its a good idea to try to map out your entire life’s plan while still in highschool. The odds the plan will be appropriate for you are small, so many factors will change for you, and you’d be far better off to learn to cope with a bit of ambiguity and stay flexible to different routes to success.</p>