So I am a high school senior who is deciding between mechanical and electrical engineering and am really stuck.

I have a lot of experience with electronics and have worked on a ton of stuff like synthesizers drones and some home automation stuff and have used a fair bit of microcontrollers and op amp circuits. If I choose electrical engineering it will be something I have worked on before and know I would enjoy doing and would love working at a company like arturia or teenage engineering and work on synthesizers

I also however love cars and had a lot of fun watching the donut video of breaking down an engine and working on power trains or cars in general would be really sick

I don't really care much about the pay as long as I can live comfortably which most engineers can do I think and mainly wanna choose based on what would be more fun.

If someone could tell me the pros and cons of both and like some career options besides the stuff I have mentioned knowing about

I've realized this throughout my semesters (still in engineering), you can study 1 week prior for a quiz, solve questions until your eyes pop out, then there's this person who studied the day before the exam and gets a better mark than you, the feeling sucks.

I am currently in my first year of engineering and i didn't declare a major yet , I've always had this passion and desire to work on sustainability projects and all these "saving the planet earth and making the change " stuff , I want an enjoyable career path and not a soulless one which makes me work on office from 9-5 just to increase the company profitability (basically the "capitalism system jobs" which i really hate cuz they literally destroys our planet and our creativity ), but I also heard from several env engineers that the reality of this field is far different from what it looks like and they do almost nothing with nature and earth so I fear that if i graduated from EnvE I'll be stuck with it and i won't be able to try anything else if i found it actually sucks like they said . A lot of people encouraged me to go for Industrial engineering because it's broad and i will be able to work in any field i like and explore many jobs opportunities such as environment ,arts ( so it is the safest eng degree for people who have multiple passions like me lol ) but the thing is as i mentioned , i hate the profitability and economy subject and i find it extremely boring and soulless i don't want to work in something i hate so will i survive these subjects in industrial engineering if i hate them? and will it be a good idea if i majored in industrial engineering with minor in something environment related such as environmental studies ? (before anyone suggest switching to something like geology , ecology , etc.. , I can't do this because i have a scholarship only for engineering majors so i can't switch to non-engineering major)

So I recently got a 100 on my Calc 3 exam, and my professor asked me to come to his office to explain my work.

While I was there, he gave me a few basic questions like, finding partial derivatives, and doing a cross product. I knew these topics, but I got really nervous and completely froze. I started sweating like crazy and couldn’t even think straight.

Apparently, according to his syllabus, if a student can’t explain their work, they have to take a “very basic (much simpler than the final)” one-on-one exam near the end of the semester. It’s pass/fail, strictly proctored, and he told me that if I pass, I get to keep my 100

He said it’ll only be around 15 minutes. I genuinely feel terrible about the whole situation. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it, barely slept, and now I feel embarrassed to even show up to his class. What makes it worse is that the questions weren’t even hard, which makes me feel so stupid for freezing up.
I’m definitely gonna practice more, but I’m scared the same thing will happen again when I’m sitting in front of him.

Should I be worried, or am I just overthinking everything?

Ik that after uni it's designing moving bodies but what jobs do interns do when they're at their co-op job.

I'm in grade 12 btw.

One thing I’ve noticed at my college in engineering is how comfortable some students are with making other people feel stupid for not understanding something or struggling academically.

A little background about me before the rant, I’m an EE student with a 3.7 GPA, so I’m not attacking those who do well in engineering at all, just the negative attitudes that can affect others mental health.

I literally don’t understand the obsession with comparing grades, GPAs, or how quickly someone can grasp a concept. We’re all here to learn and some students act like asking questions, failing an exam, or needing extra help somehow makes you less intelligent or less deserving of being in your major.

There’s a difference between being academically successful and having some sort of superiority complex because of it. Just because something comes naturally to you doesn’t mean everyone else is going to understand it at the same pace. And honestly, you never know what someone else has going on outside of school. People have jobs, families, financial problems, mental exhaustion, and other responsibilities. Some students are genuinely putting in their best effort just to get through the semester.

What bothers me most is that a lot of this judgment comes from the very people who are supposed to be your peers. College is already challenging enough without other students contributing to an environment where people feel embarrassed to ask questions or admit they’re struggling. Being able to pass a difficult class doesnt automatically make you smarter than everyone else and struggling in one doesnt make someone incompetent.

I wish more students understood that academic success doesn’t give you an excuse to look down on others. You can be intelligent, accomplished, and still be humble. Offer to help your fellow peers instead of shaming.

Here are some examples that I hear on campus:

"How did you fail that exam? It was easy."

"You only got a C? I barely studied and got an A."

Constantly reminding people how little they studied before getting a high grade, especially in a class environment talking extremely loud “OH YEAH I’M GOOD BECAUSE I GOT A 90 ON THE TEST HAHA”.

Other students going around campus telling everyone about another student’s low test score.

Looking for advice, especially if you also happen to be someone with a disability in engineering/tech!

I’m currently a first-year transfer student pursuing a degree in Cybersecurity Engineering, and I’ve been having a difficult time navigating some of the accessibility challenges in our engineering college.

I’m visually impaired, and one of the biggest challenges I’ve been running into is keeping up with classes that rely heavily on visual material, like writing on the board (when it’s not in large print), drawing circuits, etc. I’ve been working with my university to figure out accommodations that would actually help me access the material and participate in class alongside other students better, but the solutions I’ve proposed through disability support services keep getting shot down by the professor, and I end up having to work with whatever he decides instead.

It’s been frustrating because the solutions being offered don’t necessarily address the problem I’ve been trying to solve since like the 4th week of the semester. The Engineering college advisors haven’t been particularly helpful either.

I literally have a full-on F in a class now because of this, and I’ve never been a failing student! I feel like I’m going to class just for the sake of being able to say, “I’m here,” without actually being able to learn anything. I’ve been constantly watching lectures on YouTube and going through readings to try to catch up for exams, and it’s just not going well.

I genuinely want to make this work, and I know engineering isn’t supposed to be a walk in the park. But I’m starting to question whether I’ll realistically be successful in my current program long-term. I haven’t lost interest in engineering, and I’m absolutely still willing to put in the hard work. I just don’t know if I can keep dealing with these issues semester after semester, especially when some of these same challenges could very well follow me into future classes WITH THE SAME PROFESSORS.

My long-term goals are in cybersecurity, and exploring accessibility + human-centered computing. I’ve put a lot of thought into the direction I want to take my education and career, so it’s frustrating to feel like I might have to reconsider those plans because of barriers that could be easily addressed with the right support.

I hate feeling like I have to change my major (looking at information systems or comp sci) because of uncollaborative advisors and professors. At the same time, I don’t want to spend my entire college experience fighting the whole university just to get my basic accessibility needs addressed either.

Have any other disabled people here navigated similar experiences in engineering or other technical fields? How did you handle it? TIA!

I have an MSPH in biostatistics. My advisor was so bad she had to resign after my defense. PhD grads are struggling to find jobs. And I really think I will explode if I have to deal with doctors’ fragile egos for a lifetime. So I’m perusing options now that are more AI-proof that will still take 4-5 years but can actually net me a job after graduation. Nursing is an option but I don’t know if I have the personality for it.

I dropped out of UT Austin’s Electrical Engineering program; it was my first attempt at a degree. The instructor wouldn’t even say hi, just write wordlessly on the board, didn’t explain what he was doing or what rules he was using, erase before we could copy, and leave. It was regarded as a weed-out program and had attrition rates nearing 70% at the time. I didn’t know that was a thing when I applied at age 16.

I had to take prerequisites at other schools for my master’s. It turned out I’m not bad at math. I just had a phenomenally awful instructor. My calculus II professor asked me 4 times if I wanted to do an MS in math under her. I was outperforming the engineering students despite not doing a math undergrad. But it wasn’t the most rigorous program either.

I’d just like to know if there are any places you could recommend where professors are normal and students have good outcomes. Leaning towards civil or petroleum engineering.

Hey everyone im in grade 11 ontario and i wanna try to get into mechanical eng I only have 1 extra curricular which is hosa does anyone have recs on some?? I can get good grades im just really worried about ecs also do my ecs have to be related to engineering? Thank u

I know circuits 1 is generally considered an easy class, but I am struggling with it nonetheless.

The semester started out pretty easy, components, KVL/KCL equivalent resistance/capacitance/inductance, parallel/series connections. Then we got to mesh analysis which I'm mostly ok with, but got totally lost at Nodal analysis. Then I proceeded to get further lost on Norton/Thevenin equivalence, superposition, and now RC/RL circuits. Now that I let myself slide so far and there's a midterm a bit under a week I do not even know where to start.

I've watched countless videos but none of them make sense. I pretty much need to grasp something intuitively to understand something and most of these equations make no sense to me. For example in nodal analysis/Thevenin equivalents I cannot for the life of me understand why the voltage by the open nodes is 0.

I got an 85 on the first midterm (due to the heavy curve, my true score was likely a 70) and there's another coming up this Thursday.

Hi everyone, I'm starting my EE degree next February. Seeing how fast ai is growing, I'm a bit anxious that basic tasks for junior engineers will be automated by the time I graduate and making the entry-level bar much higher.
Do you think it will be harder for new grads to get hired in 4 years, and what should I focus on in uni to stand out? Thanks!

I am in my late 20s and have been working odd jobs or customer service jobs my whole life. I really wanna go back to college and get my degree in engineering. But Ive read so much news regarding the ai bubble and how ai is making every white collar job obsolete and just dont know what to think anymore.

i've been struggling with deadlines and projects for so long and it only got worse this semester. something bad happened and boom it knocked me off course for weeks on end, i couldn't focus at all on my school work, didn't have the energy to go to class because i couldn't sleep at all the night before, and just devoted all my time for a little bit to internship application just to feel like i'm doing something despite knowing i'm entirely unqualified. and when i finally felt awake enough to focus on schoolwork again, it's just test after test and deadlines after deadlines and i just missed the submission of a project i could've finished 2 weeks ago because of technical issues. i feel so fucking ashamed and anxious and horrible man my grades tanked and my gpa has been below 3.0 for a while now and a lot of these classes i can't even retake without pushing my graduation back even further and all i can think about now is how the hell am i supposed to get employed now. god what the fuck like i started this semester with a whole homework tracker on excel and was attending club meetings and now i feel like shit and barely keep in contact with my classmates because i stopped attending classes just to study for them. i know there's a month left in the semester to change things around but i don't even know how to at the rate i'm going. i know there's a solution to this of course but right now my brain has just basically gone offline like holy fuck what am i even doing. i wanted to go talk to my professors last week about my performance and it completely slipped my mind and now i missed a major project deadline. what do i even say to my prof at this point? god what the fuckkkkkkk

Hi everyone!

I'm currently a second year aerospace engineering student and I am applying for placements. The problem is, I am struggling to decide whether I want to go for a summer placement or a year long placement? Currently I want to apply for summer placements as it means I graduate a year earlier but I fear it is valued less than a year long placement as it is shorter.

Thanks!

I don’t know what else to do. I’ve been applying for internships and still either get ghosted or rejected. I don’t know what else to do. I did extra curriculars and still I haven’t gotten anything. I’ve had my resume looked at so many times to the point where I’ve changed it probably 5 times already and still I’m not getting anything. I’m not even getting any interviews. I feel like at this point I’m just screwed and wasting my time getting my degree.

hi! i am in my second year of Mechanical engineering. in my first year i failed 2 courses. I retook those over the summer. My gpa so bad rn. Everyone i talk to have a gpa that's more than 3.00. i just feel tired now. I loved engineering , everything about it. I still do enjoy the content, For some reason, I feel like I am not doing anything properly. I am just so so tired . i really don't know what i should do to do better in my life. It just feels like I am stranded in an island in the middle of nowhere and the sun never rises there. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you for reading this.

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comment which field you're looking for and i'll send you a list for it.

Hey!

I'm in an applied mechanical engineering undergrad program, and as a part of my grade we have to measure the performances of a device, such as, in my case... a damn screwdriver.

And I thought I was very smart to use torque wrenches to measure it because "hey it's definitily gonna work, i've a range of 2Nm to 50Nm, aint no way it doesn't work"

And it doesn't. The screwdriver's mechanism directly derails no matter what value I set on my torque wrench. And it's damn graded, i've to send videos and so on before the end of my vacation (which is next monday).

So if you guys have any idea of how on earth I can measure the torque before monday I would be very very very glad thank you very much !

ps : I can't find my screwdriver on the internet except on one secondhand resale website, and the guy says it has a torque of 30Nm, which is like absolutely in the range of my torque wrenches....

Some habits I personally identified helped me mitigate cognitive offloading is just to use it only as a signal for pushback e.g: I first reason and write out my argument then ask it to poke holes in my reasoning or identify assumptions. This is just my attempt to mitigate sycophantism but even this has flaws since the critique it gives me can be biased to be light or easy to resolve.

A habit I've seen other people have is to be as vague as possible about its criticism eg: first construct your solution then ask if there simply exists a better solution and recommend an article or book.

Another effective habit I've heard is using it as a tutor but by only asking it to give you a socratic hint i.e the minimum amount of information to get you unstuck but not more than that.

What habits have you personally found to be effective to make AI a boon rather than a cognitive slot machine?

As a freshman who hasn't really developed any good study habits yet (unmedicated ADHD, classes this semester have been easy enough to just coast), how likely is this schedule fully kicking my ass next semester? Along with a once/week programming class and a creative writing course. Most likely to drop thermo if anything but would like to stay on track.

I'm a community college student planning to transfer to UCLA or UCI for Fall 2027, and I'm struggling to choose a major. I've already declared TAG civil engineering.

I want a career that pays well (ideally $150k+ as I gain experience), encourages innovation, has good ethics and work-life balance, and lets me create and design things rather than just do calculations all day. It's part of the reason why companies like Apple entice me.

I'm torn between:

• Mechanical engineering: Computer hardware, product design, CAD, SolidWorks, and physical prototyping. I recently found Apple's Concept Prototyping Engineer role, and it sounds like my dream job.
• Civil/structural engineering: Designing beautiful homes, buildings, shelters, and sustainable spaces. I've loved architecture for years, but I'm concerned about compensation and career flexibility. Hence, why I chose CE. I'd be open to structural, environmental, or project management.
• UI/UX design: Creating intuitive, enjoyable experiences with technology.

I don't expect to know everything after college. I want a strong foundation and employers willing to teach me and help me grown. I know for certain CS is out of the picture. I do not care for AI development.

SO MY QUESTION IS:

What route and decisions must I do that will grow me the skills necessary for all three career routes? Will CE provide that foundational flexibility, or will it keep me locked into jobs specific to CE? Is it better to do ME in that case or is it the same thing where an ME will remain strictly an ME.

Those who have done career switches, how hard was it? I mean theoretically I am thinking to just get to bachelor degrees with CE and ME... but time and money is also a constraint. I'd love advice from people with actual industry experience. I want to find a career that combines creativity, financial security, and meaningful work without feeling like I'm giving up half my interests.

If I could, I would love a major that's hybridize but that's simply not a thing. I am torn because I'm afraid that what I choose today will lock me out and disqualify me from other career routes i'm interested in. Ideally, I want to learn enough where when it comes time to apply for jobs I can be a good candidate within these roles I feel I'd enjoy.

I am a sophomore EE student and I have been a terrible student since starting college. I don’t study and half the time don’t even show up to lectures. I am the problem in this situation I’ve just been super lazy and more interested in my video games than my future. But anyways I am doing poorly in basically all of my classes or even in the ones I’m doing okay in I have missed too many days and will probably fail. So should I just drop most of my courses and sort of take the L for the semester and try to focus up over the break and do better next time? If anyone else has dealt with a situation like this I’d love to know how you handled it.