<p>I would like to take materials and use it as a component of engine or aircraft,which major(s) do I need to have in order to get the best chance to design what I want? The type of engineering responsible for this type of work appears to be in chemical, aerospace, mechanical and perhaps material engineering.</p>
<p>Would a double major in chemical and aerospace do, what’s the best combo?</p>
<p>What’s with all the people asking about double majoring lately?</p>
<p>A lone engineering degree is hard enough. Don’t make things even harder for yourself.</p>
<p>in all seriousness, if you’re not sure, do mechanical because ME encompasses a little bit of everything. You got basic circuit analysis (EE), structural mechanics (CE/ME), fluid mechanics (CE/ME/AE), thermodynamics (CheE/ME/AE/CE/MatSci), and a lot of other general topics that come around your sophomore year. If you really like one of the subjects you can hopefully change if your college isn’t against movin majors. Otherwise, you can just stick ME and you probably won’t hate your job anyway because you can specialize later on.</p>
<p>Ok thanks EHP.</p>
<p>Calcozzo, I just think it’s a good idea to have more than one major to catch the finer knowledge and skills required, but that’s just me.</p>
<p>No matter how many majors you take, you can’t possibly learn in advance everything that you’ll need to know to do almost any engineering job. The name of the game is to pay attention to the fundamentals you are taught in school and then have the smarts and the drive to learn whatever else you need to know on the job. Don’t expect to stop learning after you graduate.
For the kind of work you are describing, an ME degree would be perfect. You’ll learn something in school about properties of materials, and if you need deeper, more specific materials knowledge at work you will either consult with a materials person who is part of your engineering organization (which certainly will be the case in the aircraft industry), or otherwise teach yourself.</p>