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Re: What type of engineering?
I was in the same boat 5 years ago, deciding between mechanical and aerospace engineering. I couldn't make up my mind so i decided not to, and went with Engineering Science and Mechanics instead (smaller major, only 20ish people graduating here at Virginia Tech with a BS in it per year, as opposed to 200-300 in each AE and ME) ESM focused more on the fundamentals of solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and motion (basically anything you'd do in AE or ME). I'm glad I didn't lock myself down sooner, because after many experiences, i decided to focus in biomechanics, which AE doesn't really touch and ME only does slightly.
The University of Michigan I believe has an Applied Physics program, which may allow you to remain a dabbler in solids, motion, fluids, and electrical theory, and set you up with a good background for another field you may want to go into for graduate school, or at least let you take some classes that could transfer over to another department later.
If you're still stumped, take math classes, they should transfer between any field of engineering. If its a tight race between AE and ME, there should be some classes that they either share or the content is identical so an agreeable department head may let you transfer in one course substituted in for another between departments(statics, dynamics, deforms, introductory fluids, etc). Hope this helps.
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