Which Engineering Major to choose

MBoLEndymion
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 21:20:20 +0000

Hello!

As my title suggests, I’m still trying to decide which engineering major I should choose. I love the field of robotics, and would like to go into the robotics industry, so I’m leaning towards either EE, CS, or MechE, but I’m not sure which I would chose. I do like the building aspect of robotics a lot, but then again, I also like the idea of coding a robot to make it do what I want it to do. As for the interest in EE, I’m interested in electromagnets, just because they seem really cool to me. Unfortunately, I really dislike the idea of pure coding, (don’t want to be coding if its not related to a robotics project), so I’m unsure about CS - and EE or even ECE seems like a happy medium between coding a building, but requires a lot of math.

While I’m OK with math, and can eventually get it, I have to study quite a bit and don’t particularly enjoy math if it doesn’t lead me to a real world application. I’m doing the VEX Robotics Competition in high school right now, and I am enjoying the building part (we haven’t got to the coding yet!), so would MechE be a viable choice? Or should I keep my options open?

Also, what exactly would a Mechanical Engineer be involved in? Designing the physical components of the robot? If so, how does MechE overlap/not overlap with EE with regard to robotics?

Thanks!