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Originally Posted by sparksandtabs
When I was talking to a few different colleges I alot of people told me that for mechanical engineering they have sme electrical course in too.
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When I was in school, there were two courses in the EE dept that all engineers, except electricals, had to take. One was basic electricity and the second basic electronics. What constitutes basic electronics has probably changed in the intervening time.
The basic electricity covered resistors, inductors, and capacitors. The experiments read something like draw 10 amps at 100 volts. Screw up and you'd light up. The electronics course used 9 volt batteries. I liked tha much better.
The bottom line is that all engineers need to know enough to hook up and use basic instrumentation. As many products you'll be using as a mechanical have an electronic control part, it's more important than ever.