<p>I want to work in the aerospace industry but I'm not sure what to major in. Should I major in mechanical engineering or aerospace engineering?</p>
<p>Electrical because it every damn thing needs electricity.so it’ll be a never ending demand</p>
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<p>What part of the aerospace industry interests you the most?</p>
<p>In aerospace industry, you are most likely need to have an aerospace grad degree to go somewhere. You should major in mechanical engineering as your undergrad with focus in aerospace classes and continue your grad study in aerospace engineering.</p>
<p>It seems to me that if you want to work in aerospace… major in aerospace. Mechanical wouldn’t hurt, but if you know what you want, why not go for it?</p>
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<p>This is 100% false. I know scores and scores of people who prove this statement wrong.</p>
<p>Boneh3ad is dead right. A master’s degree in aerospace engineering is completely unnecessary, and the salary bump for having one is minimal. If you want to work in aerospace engineering, I would strongly recommend majoring in aerospace engineering. It’s not difficult to get a job in aerospace engineering with a mechanical engineering degree, but many of the major defense contractors start out the mechanical engineers at a slightly lower salary level than the aerospace guys (I don’t know why or necessarily agree with it, but that’s just how it works).</p>
<p>what about job security? is the aerospace engineering a stable field in the US? I was thinking that I should major in mechanical engineering because it’s a broad field and even if I can’t get a job in the aerospace industry, I can still find other jobs that aren’t in the aerospace category.</p>
<p>To be honest, drakea, that is what I did. I had internships at Rolls-Royce and a job offer with several aerospace companies as a mechanical engineer but ended up going to grad school because I was crazy.</p>
<p>If you work in the aerospace industry long enough, there is a good chance you will get laid off at some point. I never did, but defense programs get cancelled all the time - it’s just the nature of the business. However, turnover in the industry is pretty high, so if it happens, you should be able to quickly find another job.</p>
<p>Not to mention that if you are a good enough worker, if your program gets canceled they will find another place for you somewhere in the company. That happened to my dad several times when I was growing up. He worked on probably 4 separate canceled programs but never left the company he works for.</p>
<p>@studentengineer: I was also thinking about doing electrical engineering but I wasn’t exactly sure if electrical engineers work on jet propulsion or designing new aircraft.</p>
<p>Isn’t applied mathematics a draw for the aerospace industry?</p>
<p>if I get my bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, can I work as a mechanical engineer?</p>
<p>ME and EE are the most broad based and will provide the most opportunities. AAE will essentially limit you to that particular industry - for good, bad or indifferent. You will find ME’s and EE’s at Boeing, but you would be hard pressed to find AAE’s at Exxon-Mobil.</p>