Can a Mechanical Engineer Get a Software/CompSci Job?

DadTwoGirls
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 04:33:51 +0000

What stage are you at? When I started university I took a computer science course, a mechanical engineering course, a math course, and a physics course (and a humanities course that I took pass/fail that was intended for engineering / math majors and therefore was not possible to fail if you even showed up). It was a couple of years before I needed to pick a major in a way that I couldn’t undo. Are you early enough in the university process that you can study some ME and some CS at the same time? It would seem to me that some CS would be very useful for pretty much any engineering major.

I have heard of some cases of a person majoring in some form of engineering with a minor in computer science, and then going on to get a masters degree in computer science. Of course the longer that you stay in school the longer it takes to get a real job and a real apartment, and the more that you need to consider the cost of education.

One of the very best things about undergraduate education is that you can study a bit of several different technologies that are interesting. This might be the only thing that I miss about being an undergraduate!