Is Mechanical Engineering dying? It seems like all the jobs are gradually shifting towards digital electronics...

Is Mechanical Engineering dying? It seems like all the jobs are gradually shifting towards digital electronics, and software systems.

Mechanical engineers design the power plants and the transmission systems.
When the power goes out, those smug EEs will be laughing out of the other side of their faces.

There's also HVAC, structural engineering, aircraft, and I don't know what else. The digital chaps may _control_ the hardware but someone still has to build the hardware.

Bro

I thought EE's have to learn solid state physics, and take materials science classes too.

Mechatronics will become the standard.

I'm an ME and I know EEs. Yeah, they ought to know solid state physics so they can design transistors and integrated circuits.
Doesn't qualify them to design a turbine or compute stresses in a beam.
I can't do their job and they can't do mine.

Mech eng degrees already include some electrical and programming desu

MechE is dead because businesses are too cheap to invest in creating "real" products and instead sell software which is free to produce. EE only exists to support software. It's a flaw in capitalism where businesses go after low hanging fruit, so we get snapchat instead of supersonic airliners.

Precisely, in the near-future it'll become combined as mechatronics.

>It's a flaw in capitalism where businesses go after low hanging fruit, so we get snapchat instead of supersonic airliners.
>Nothing but emoji socks and ties.
Fucking why?

This topic has been stressing me the fuck out desu. I'm a junior in mechanical engineering and I ran into a friend who graduated from the same uni with a BS in mechanical engineering. Basically we were talking and I asked what he has been up to since graduating, and he told me he was just working his ass off to pay bills. Me thinking that he was working as a mechanical engineer asked him what company he was working for to which he replied "Haha bro I wish I was an engineer, I'm just working as a cop right now ".

Like wtf is ME really this fucked? I was honeslty thinking of changing to software engineering.

Chem Eng Here.

Yes.

Is there an alternative to ME?

You could always stop being gay and get a girlfriend.

No, it's just going to involve a lot more software and math. We are getting to the point where computers can design mechanical systems for us, which will change what mechanical engineers work on.

Hmm.

Major Sensing & Logic Topics in Machines went roughly like this, didn't it?
Mechanic ->(Pneumatic) -> Electric -> Electronic -> Microelectronic

I'm a ME, and I'm not gay lol I'm a girl

This entire post is retarded.

This post is half dumb cynical crap and the other half is too Goddamn real for me, and I can't actually tell where each half begins or starts but I know it's there.

just imagine that thing burrowing into the arch of your foot

This so fucking much.

No.

There are no flaws in capitalism.

study bachelor mechatronics, Specialise by picking a good masters.

You'll learn MechE, EE and programming so it gives you time to decide what you really like while also teaching you how the 3 disciplines work together.

I love it, it's never boring and it the knowledge aquired doesn't seem shallow at all.

>I'm ME
>I'm not gay

Choose one.

You're not being realistic here.

what happens when AI can inevitably automate electrical systems?

I realized this too. I'm planning to go into computational sciences(mechanics maybe). Is it a good route to take coming from a mechanical engineering background

No, not even close. The only reason why ME is perceived as dying is because there isn't much new technology being developed, but existing technology in the industry is constantly required and maintained so MEs are still required. HVAC, Power Generation, Mining, Fluids processing, and Manufacturing are all fields that will never die.

>muh Mechatronics
Why would you hire a jack of all trades when you're going to be hiring multiple engineers anyway? Unless you're working for a very small company, your engineering department is going to have multiple people, and it will always be better to have a separate EE and ME than try to merge them into one role.

Did your friend do any internships before graduating? No one is going to hire you if you have zero work experience no matter what stream of engineering you did.

AI will be able to automate everything buddy

It's not just electrical systems.

But will it be able to come up with company ideas like uber?

Back to /pol/ fuckwit

>separate EE and ME
Are there even people who have studied both or taken courses from the other part?

Some unis have mechatronics majors.

I explicitely meant people who have studied both courses, or have gained enough knowledge from the other one to be useful.

(Mechatronics majors work too, but might be limited in the separate disciplines?)

AI isn't possible you autist singularityfag.

On a slightly related note. I got into engineering, starting this coming February. What should I expect, should I get anything to prepare and what major makes the most cash (or will make).

There are like dozens of stats on salary and employment of engineering majors. But hey, why think for yourself, when you can always ask some random anons at Veeky Forums.

jfc is this true?
i was just decided to major in mech e fuck

There are no disciplines specifically for mechatronics though, robotics and embedded systems are combinations of multiple disciplines.

Mechanical engineer here.

300k starting

Yes

Why? It clearly is. And I don't believe in some "singularity", I just know AI will be able to do things much more precisely than humans.

>Why would you hire a jack of all trades when you're going to be hiring multiple engineers anyway?
Because you need someone to do the high level design, someone who understands the interdisciplinary implications.

t. Silicon valley venture cap

fucking this. I think for mechE the low hanging fruit is lower so EE's think they can do their job but both tree's come from the same trunk and have a lot of undiscovered fruit waiting to be plucked at the top.

>Is Mechanical Engineering dying? It seems like all the jobs are gradually shifting towards digital electronics, and software systems.

Mechanical engineering has reached a fairly high level of refinement, with a large knowledge base, so most everything that we need mechanical engineering FOR, has already been reduced to "First Principle", and can basically be copy/pasted from other sources.

Digital electronics and software systems are less understood, and thus there is much more effort in studying them, and their potential applications.

It's mainly a financial based logistics thing.... why spend money coming up with new mechanical systems when the ones we already have, work well enough to get the job done at a reasonable price?

>It's mainly a financial based logistics thing....
or "R&D inertia" and "Existing systems inertia"