Undecided between engineering branches

Characteristics of universities that may help you in your situation:

  1. **Not** difficult to change to a different engineering major. (Some universities are enrolled to full capacity in many or all engineering majors, so it may require a very high GPA or competitive admission process to change.)
  2. Offering engineering courses and seminars to first year students to help them decide which engineering major to choose.

Engineers design things. What kinds of things would you like to design?

  • Buildings, roads, bridges, water systems, etc. -- civil.
  • Power systems, electronics, communications, etc. -- electrical.
  • Aircraft and spacecraft -- aerospace (sometimes offered as a subarea of mechanical).
  • Vehicles, tools, aircraft, spacecraft, bicycles, shoes, appliances, prosthetics, any other mechanical object -- mechanical.
  • Chemicals and processes for manufacturing them -- chemical.
  • Materials -- materials.
  • Processes, systems, and logistics -- industrial.
  • Nuclear power and radiological devices for applications like medicine -- nuclear.