EECS and ME Majors Please help me.

flumoxed
Fri, 28 May 2010 19:55:12 +0000

As a 4th year ME also interested in fluid mechanics, I suggest going EECS. The ME department simply doesn’t offer enough pure fluid mechanics classes to justify switching to ME if that’s ALL you’re interested in. Of course if you are also interested in dynamics with a bit of controls mixed in (what I’m doing) then ME is the better choice.

I suggest going the EECS route while taking ME 106 (Intro to fluids) , ME 163 (micro scale fluids), ME 167 (micro scale fluids) as it fits your schedule.

Edit: I should also note that if you are interested in control design, the ME department has been cutting some of its classes and directing students to take the EECS equivalent instead. For example, I was dismayed to find the ME 134 (Automatic control designed) had been canceled and was told to look into EE 128 instead.