It's what you're into man, ya got to know that whatever you do will be a pragmatic approach to the logic you had in physics, so that is, bounded inputs and accounting for real-life error. Ya got to pick what you can imagine yourself building.
Mechanical engineering is more about system modelling than anything. It's more maths than it is building shit.
Mechatronics is getting mechanical things to move using electricity and logic. It's for blokes who bought a soldering kit because they wanted to save their shitty desktop screen by replacing the blown capacitors
Aerospace is about abusing fluid and thermo mechanical processes to min-max work applied using geometry. MASSIVE into simulation and basic fundamentals
Electrical is for.. I only know pure autists who do electrical. (idk shits magic to me)
Computer eng is useful; electrical eng and soft eng is min-maxing computer theory.
Science kind of sets you up on a different path than eng; you're not there to observe, you're there to enact.
Honestly any is fine, the background in maths will be your best asset out of all of it. Knowing how a process grows (or at least how to find out) if a process is exp, polynomic, additive, converging, diverging, off the top of your head and then assessing if it will be useful to the goal.
David Gomez
A high ranking school near me offers some sort of interdisciplinary engineering program. Would i be better off doing this, or is it watered down? If so, chemE and matE are pretty well rounded and I'll probably choose between those two.
Jack Gutierrez
One of the MechE professors at my undergrad university had a PhD in Physics and worked as a mechanical engineer. For some odd reason he also had a Bachelor's in MechE? Funny story, the autistic dean of engineering almost didn't hire him because he didn't have a PhD in Engineering. She was a cunt.
Nicholas Allen
>the average physics professor is a jewish puppet preaching marxism I really can't tell between genuine /pol/ posting and parody anymore
Jaxson Hernandez
There are lots of applied science careers that a physics degree prepares you for. You will also likely be better with software engineering with a physics degree, if that interests you.
It sounds like you're starting out in undergrad. You probably can't tell the difference right now between physics and engineering. Only a minority of physicists are theorists. Most build things. They build experiments, they build software, hardware, financial models, missiles, bombs, etc. Physicists have a broader base of knowledge than engineers and tend to work on a broader set of problems.
Jason Rodriguez
There is a lack of software engineering programs in my area. Are "computer engineering" degrees the same?
Adrian Kelly
>Would Y degree be best for a career as X? No, X degree is best for a career as X. Why is it so hard for people to understand this?
Brandon Foster
I appreciate the advice, but my question was more along the lines of: " Can I do both X & Y with an X degree."
Mason Mitchell
Totally. I have PhD in beam physics and work for RnD in company dealing with cyclotrons and stuff.
