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Re: Mechanical Or Electrical???

An EE degree, like an ME, doesn't lock you into much at all. It's a huge field and you could end up doing all sorts of things. I have a few EE friends. One is working on wind mills in New England developing weather logging equipment and another is working for a company that makes aircraft lighting products. Both use the same basic skills but have very different responsibilities.

I can tell you that your education will probably start with basic technical math and DC/AC circuits. From there you'll get into logic, microcontrolers, signals and programming. All the while you'll be taking more advanced math courses. By the time you graduate you'll have created a senior project that incorporates what you've learned, sometimes as a group. EE senior projects are often robotic in nature.

If you really are unsure of which one, a lot of technical schools offer a bachelors degree program in electro-mechanical engineering, or something similar. It's basically 2 associates degree programs, one in EE and ME, welded together to form a bachelors. Holders of one of these degrees are likely to end up in a very hands on position, perhaps in a supervisory role over a small team. Emphasis is on skills, experience and flexibility, and less so on high level theory. They have excellent placement rates and young people with this kind of degree are aggressively recruited. If you want a technical job right away with the opportunity to move up, this is a good option. In any case, it's a good opportunity for you to get a side by side comparison of the two fields.
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