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If you can, look for a Mechatronic engineering program. It combines ME+EE education so you learn about both fields. This is particularly useful since there are almost no purely mechanical devices anymore. Heck, I believe a car has something like 1500 sensors inside of it -- you need to have some EE knowledge to be able to interface all that with the mechanical parts of the car.

Miss conception, mechanical engineers do not just work on cars.


You are right about the electrical though. I would do mechanical and just take a lot of electives in electronics/system controls.

I have taking plenty of these. For some reason Mechanical on its own is just more beneficial.

Many universities do not even yet have a Mechatronics program. It is hard to find an Abet accredited program also.

I'm an ME actually, heh.

I was trying to give an example of how something that's traditionally been thought of as a complex purely mechanical device (a car) is now an extremely complex electromechanical device!

The funny thing about engineering and mechatronics is that initially there wasn't a split between mechanical & electrical engineering. You had mechanical engineering, then electromechanical engineering, and then finally electrical & mechanical engineering... Now they're trying to combine the two disciplines against into one unified curriculum.

But yeah, looking at electronics as an ME is much different than an EE looking at the mechanical engineering domains (fluids, thermo, heat transfer, statics/dynamics). It seems like the EE educational concentrations are heavily focused on things like signal processing, power transmission, and microprocessors -- all of these are really useful, but they are only very useful within their domains which often don't overlap with other domains. If you want to branch out of EE into other fields and start working on non-trivial devices that feature lots of force bearing mechanical components, you'll need to do a lot of studying whereas an ME who wants to have some electrical components in a non-trivial device is much better off.

I understand your point. I guess my point would be to become an mechanical engineer and then for all other things there is graduate school.

Man, I love mechanics so much. I am currently studying the calculus of variations. This topic is so fascinating!!! you should check it out!!!

Lagrange and Hamilton are the shit!

I'm almost finishing up my ME degree.

Can you really believe it that my school never formally discussed Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations? Yeah.... For some reason my school's super heavy on thermal stuff and not so much the mechanical part of mechanical engineering

I know, I love physics. Initially I wanted to finish physics. My situation drove me to ME since it would have more use specially back in home country. I almost finished my physics B.S I was 6 credits away. I continue to study physics on my own as a hobby. Maybe I can someday take some master's classes. All of my friends are either physics grad students, post docs or professors. I admire people of science. I want to be one of them, hence why i bust my ass studying and discovering the mechanical universe

There are schools with dual degrees where you can do both EE and CS

But CSEE isn't CE...

I'm considering mechanical engineering, but not sure how to go about things. I'm in Indiana and considering thishttps://www.purdueonlineengineering....l-engineering/

Computer engineering or electrical are better IMO. Some unis even have courses that offer integrated curricula from both comp. engr and electrical. If I only had to choose one of those I'd probably choose electrical.