What's the best engineering concentration?

[Anonymous]

Computer Engineering if they offer it. Some school only offer CS or EE, in which case I would suggest the CS route.

[Anonymous]

The grass is always greener but I did ChemE bc it had the highest salaries 20 years ago. Problem is that you are usually going to work for huge companies with cutthroat advancement.

I wish I had done civil. 4 years at a construction company and you can go out on your own as a developer or design builder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 14 year old loves tinkering with electronics...like taking a motor out of an old vcr and wiring it into a different circuit to make something else...that sort of thing. Is electrical engineering still a thing? I know nothing about this stuff.

Electrical Engineering is a fantastic and versatile degree - virtually every field needs EEs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"best" for what?

Money and demand moving forward.

Petroleum. By a long shot.

Signed,

A mechanical engineer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EE-CS at a top 10 engineering college will net you $100k offers. Doesn't get much better than living in San Fran and making $100k at 22.[/quote

No one from San Francisco would ever call it "San Fran." And $100k doesn't get you much there at all, which is also something that people who are from there would know.

Much better is petroleum engineer. That's the best for entry level, undergrad degree only. Entry wages at $130k. In Texas. Buys you way more than $100k in San Francisco.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/petroleum-engineers.htm

[Anonymous]

Chemical engineering is by far the best when it comes to money, job ops. My SIL was hired during first semester senior year and had his pick of employers. He gets a raise every six months and headhunters are constantly calling him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Computer Engineering if they offer it. Some school only offer CS or EE, in which case I would suggest the CS route.

Computer Science is a dead end. The number of graduates hired by google, facebook, netflix, etc is very small. You will get 10 years and then top off and eventually sent to pasture. that is if you are smart enough to join a product firm. If you join fortune 500 company you are treated as another cost, little better than janitor.

Much Much better to major in a discipline that does not constantly change, that as you acquire knowledge, it gains more value. BioMedical or better yet Neurology. We know so little about the brain, it is the new plastics.

learn the biology first. the computer stuff is simple.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FArtificial%20Intelligence&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection