<p>Maybe you should look at becoming a mechanic then (seriously).</p>
<p>I agree with Burdell, the job you’re describing sounds more like a mechanic than an engineer.</p>
<p>A different skill set is required for mechanic vs mechanical engineer, electrician vs electrical engineer, construction worker vs civil engineer. You might work closely with one another, but you won’t be hired to do both.</p>
<p>I don’t want to be a guy who just makes what others design or puts things into motion that other guys told me to do. I just want to be able on my free time to do and build stuff by myself. I know it sounds lame ad dumb but I don’t wanna design an engine and just watch as some other group(Technicians) comes in and builds my thing without me even laying a hand on it physically.</p>
<p>I want to be able to touch it and check for flaws personally test it after its been built and I’m not saying I myself alone is gonna go and say ‘hey today I have a mill let me build a jet engine’ but I’d love to say hey I got a mill a couple of my friends who I make at the job just go out and build a jet engine.</p>
<p>I don’t want to be te guy applying what others made it akes me feel so small when I can be doing much more. </p>
<p>The reason I chose Aerospace is because yeah I might not make a whole plane single handily but it will be my/our(group) jet engine that makes that plane fly and that makes me feel somewhat happy seeing my/our little piece of the puzzle do something.</p>
<p>Maybe Ive bee watching too much TV but still I’d like to know that if a guy gave me the funds that a group of me and my friends(obviously these friends will be engineers/mechanics) can go build a jet engine.</p>
<p>Basically I want to be the guy that makes the design and if I choose to can apply that design with help.</p>
<p>Contrary to what some people are telling you, the pay for aero might be good, but opportunities are decreasing. After all, there are’nt that many aero companies… youur better off as a mech. Eng. major</p>
<p>I know some people who work for Boeing, and they all are painting a gloomy picture of the future (rising foreign competition, highly increased outsourcing, etc). Dunno if this applies to all major aerospace companies in the US (I doubt it since we’re talking commercial airplanes, not defense) but it was enough to make me shy away from AeroE since I live in Boeshington.</p>
<p>So yeah, in the interest of keeping your skills broad, I’d go with mechanical.</p>
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<p>Take a look at engineering technology programs. What you’re describing is not engineering.</p>
<p>Also, I hope you don’t write your applications essays with this kind of grammar. Sorry, I hate to be that guy, and I know this is just an internet forum, but this is unacceptable. Reading your post infuriated me.</p>
<p>Sorry Calcozzo and thanks for the advice. Mechanical is looking retty good but I want to be in the Aerospace field and from what my teacher told me it seems they’ll look at aerospace engineers more before they look at mechanical.</p>
<p>I am torn between chemical and electrical eng./or physics. I have always loved physics but science does not seem like a very practical career choice. i read a quote saying “scientist discover the natural and engineering create the artificial.” but i want to do both. I want to discover something and apply it to make the world a better place.
Can someone help me i prob will be doing engineering just because i know the jobs will be there so chem or elect. I really want to get into microelectronics or nanotech.</p>
<p>“I want to discover something and apply it to make the world a better place”</p>
<p>Why not go to engineering graduate school in MEMS and research/develop new technology?</p>
<p>static75 please stop saying idiotic things about Poly. I go there too, and you know little about what you speak of; Poly does not offer Aero. </p>
<p>Poly’s MechE major is broad, and touches and some AerospaceE, and so the major is called “Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.”</p>