What's the best engineering concentration?

[Anonymous]

Is it still electrical/computer science (Silicon Valley)? Biomedical? Aerospace?

...operations is the joke sort of easy one, right?

[Anonymous]

"best" for what?

[Anonymous]

The one that you enjoy and are willing to put your heart into. I'd tear my f^@$% eyes out trying to do anything biomedical or computer science.
There are just so many different types of engineering and ways to succeed at each.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"best" for what?

Money and demand moving forward.

[Anonymous]

I've been told Biomedical is certainly one of the best. This was my son's major and he had multiple job opportunities coming out of undergrad. He's two years out of college making 90k plus an annual bonus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The one that you enjoy and are willing to put your heart into. I'd tear my f^@$% eyes out trying to do anything biomedical or computer science.
There are just so many different types of engineering and ways to succeed at each.

So true. Honestly, if I could do it all over again I'd major in operations/industrial engineering. I think I would have liked it, but it did have a reputation as the easiest major. If only 50 year old me could have talked to 18 year old me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The one that you enjoy and are willing to put your heart into. I'd tear my f^@$% eyes out trying to do anything biomedical or computer science.
There are just so many different types of engineering and ways to succeed at each.

So true. Honestly, if I could do it all over again I'd major in operations/industrial engineering. I think I would have liked it, but it did have a reputation as the easiest major. If only 50 year old me could have talked to 18 year old me.

+100 Six-figure salaries mean little if you're not enjoying what you're doing. I know way too many engineers who ditched their jobs for more suitable a couple of years out of college. You can be practical and true to yourself at the same time.

[Anonymous]

So then which is fun? What is operations engineering? Curious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So then which is fun? What is operations engineering? Curious

Fun, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

[Anonymous]

DH is a civil engineer and with all of the focus on renovating infrastructure these days he has never had any issues landing a job. He finds the various projects keeps work interesting too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So then which is fun? What is operations engineering? Curious

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/majors/engineering-operations-research

[Anonymous]

Go into operations engineering, get an MBA and make $$$. Don't go into Aerospace bc all of us wannabe astronauts and pilots push down salaries bc we do what we love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So then which is fun? What is operations engineering? Curious

No such thing. It depends on each individual.

[Anonymous]

Any engineering -> patent office -> law school... Patent attorney... most attorneys are not smart enough to do engineering so there is a need. It's the highest paying for lawyers and you don't have to do Big Law with a bunch of douches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any engineering -> patent office -> law school... Patent attorney... most attorneys are not smart enough to do engineering so there is a need. It's the highest paying for lawyers and you don't have to do Big Law with a bunch of douches.

+1

If you want $$.

Or any engineering, MBA, finance.

Engineering as a career isn't the most lucrative. It's good out of undergrad but then tops out not long after. For someone who wants to stick with engineering then they will find the "flavor" that they love.

For the most flexibility, computer science owns up a lot of doors.