Undergraduate major decision - electrical engineering vs mechanical engineering

eyemgh
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 05:45:42 +0000

As others have already said, MANY flavors of engineers work in the automotive industry. Ditto aerospace. Really, ditto most industries, biomedical, structural, you name it. They all employ many different types of engineers.

That said, if your son wants ME, but wants a taste of EE and CS, a mechatronics concentration will give him that. Depending on the school, that’s approached from the ME side, as it was at my son’s alma mater, or occasionally, from the EE side.

Much more importantly, he should choose the best SAE club at his school, be it Formula, FormulaE, Baja, or hypermile, and get involved as early as possible. Then, he should try for automotive internships. Lastly, if he can plan his senior project on something germane to his interested area of the industry, he’ll be set.