Aeronautics/civil/mechanical engineering

saturnVroketo
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:16:53 +0000

As a soon to be senior, I know for sure that I want to study engineering. In Science Olympiad I’ve learned many aspects of several different types of enigneering but I am really unsure of which type of engineering to choose. Originally, I wanted to study Aerospace engineering because I wanted to go into rocketry, not neccesarily “airplanes”. I made these paper balsa wood airplanes and experiemented with bottle rockets and loved it. But then my father told me that job oppurtunities are limited and gave me examples of such situations. So then I was thinking of civil engineering. I also loved to make balsa bass bridges and towers and boomilevers for the science olympiad. I loved it… but then I thought in civil engineering, there’s really no progress in that field. Like theres nothing new i guess… not to the degree like that in Aerospace. or mechanical… And in mechanical or electrical… I really don’t know what to expect in it.

In the end, I would like to work at NASA but my desires will most likely change.

What should I go for?