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Originally Posted by Adam Y.
One career choice? How is trying to persuade people into becoming engineers trying to funnel them into one career choice. Saying you want to become an engineer is exactly like saying you want to become a scientist. You have now just narrowed down your career path 20,000 choices. There are five or six major branches of engineering depending on whether or not you consider computer engineering seperate enough from electrical. These field are electrical, mechanical, industrial, civil, computer, and chemical. Those are subdivied down into even more seperate fields.
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I actually researched a bit before lumping "Engineers" all into one career choice for the purpose of illustration in my initial post. According to the US bureau of labor and statistics, Engineering is one career with 18 possible specialties. I'd also like to point out that most FRC students won't have any exposure to anything outside of mechanical, electrical, and computer engineers. I am certain that some teams have other engineers as mentors, such as industrial or materials engineers, but I think that this doesn't apply to the majority.