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<p>Thinking back to the people getting jobs out of undergrad from the MSE department at my school, hiring seemed to go in waves. One year everyone would go to aerospace, the next semiconductor, the next metals, etc. A friend that graduated a year before me wound up going to work with Lockheed in their satellite division. He was a double major in MSE and Physics.</p>
<p>I did my undergrad in Materials with a minor in physics. I chose note to double major since there were a ton of physics classes I could have cared less about (freshman year E&M was bad enough for me, forget the upper-level one). Instead I focused on the classes more applicable to materials science (quantum mechanics, extra thermo classes, and solid state physics), and I think it was a good choice.</p>
<p>I think which field you major in and which you minor in (even if you double, one will still be your main focus with more electives in it) depends on what sort of job role you’d like in the aerospace industry. If you’d like to design the landing gear on an airplane, you’d probably want MechE/Aero. If you want to study the effect of corrosion and fatigue on the landing gear (and possibly figure out new alloys to mitigate the problems), then you’d probably want materials.</p>