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12-27-2007, 02:19 AM
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COLLEGE MAJOR helping!
Hey, whats up? Im currently a 1st year student at San Diego State University in San Diego, California. Ive selected my major as an Electrical Engineer cause I feel that field is an ongoing field where you work with many different electronic/electrical devices. Prior to graduation I intend to apply to Officer Candidate School (OCS) at florida, which is an officer program for the Navy to become a Naval Officer. If I make it through that, I serve my service required from completing the program while going back to grad school to try and get my masters in Electrical Engineering, and I guess things will just coast from there...
Right now i've only been taking my General Education courses for my year in college/my major. So mainly all my courses kind of dont deal with my major except for learning the math needed for that major. My problem is, ever since i've always been into cars. I felt that working with cars would be real real awesome. So I was thinking that maybe a Mechanical Engineer would be a real neat major for me to get into since this major would pertain to my interests. And since im into cars, being into this major will pretty much help me learn about cars in general and understand how whichever car id own works inside and out and become more familiar with the car mechanically since im sure that id add some modifications to it. So its kind of like im getting hands-on experience on my own before I even qualify for engineering internships. Plus, since im going to try and enter the Navy. My major would come in handy for Naval Aircrafts for that my major pertains to mechanically build aircrafts. 
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#2
12-27-2007, 08:12 AM
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If i were a mod i would move this into Off Topic and not the subsection of finer living. ALSO what the hell is this post, is it a question or just a statement?
Your reasoning sounds more like mine when i went into EE to begin college. Oh-boy did i figure out that EE was not the same as playing with electronics and car stereos. In hindsight if i would have started as Mech. Eng i prob would have liked that more finished that degree out. With that said 2nd and 3rd semester you should prob start to get into some EE classes. If you have your schedule now post your classes so i can chuckle at what you are set up with now. Maybe you will love learning able signals and all that other jazz. I loved building the circuits in class but not figuring out the timing and everything else behind the scenes. You might be one of the people that have EE as a calling, but through first hand experience 10% of the kids loved it 70% toughed it out, the others dropped it(college or the major). These are not scientific numbers  Finally, i wanted to be an engineer b/c my pops is/was one. Only if i would have talked to him about what exact field he was in (Mech.) i prob wouldn't have made the decision for EE  Then again busting my *** for 6 EE semesters prob was the best thing i have ever done. That shyt is NO JOKE and hard as hell. After i switched majors everything else was a cake walk and i have a better outlook when it comes to take on projects etc in my daily work life and life in general
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#4
01-06-2008, 11:10 PM
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I like your career plan, but I hope you understand what you'll get into. As an officer in the military (doesn't matter which branch), the closest thing you'll get to do with either EE or ME is manage technical programs (from a budgetary/proposal reading standpoint). You'll probably never use what you learned unless it's management.
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01-28-2008, 06:17 PM
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I am a EE major on track to becoming an engineer for the air force. Honestly it pretty much guarnteed that you wont be doing any engineering. Most things are contracted out now a days. You may work on some projects but as far as designing aircraft or even building on there is almost no possibility because the military buys them from companies like lockheed, boeing, etc. Honestly as far as hands on the closest you are going to get is like civil engineering or something like that. I am not sure about the navy but in the air force those are the only engineers that do real hands on stuff. Don't get me wrong you might acctual do some stuff but the role of an officer is more of a management role. Maybe you can try doing aircraft maintenance but enlisted guys do a most of the hands on stuff for that.
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02-07-2008, 12:45 PM
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02-07-2008, 12:49 PM
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you wont hacve to declare a major til after 4 semesters... youll know by then, im finishing my 4th and i KNOW i want to be a mechanical engineer. we take so many of the classes that other engineers take we can spread out into fields that some others cant. we can go aerospace or EE or ME or bioMed or many other things like that. SPARKNOTES: Wait and decide after 4 semesters, declare general engineering for now. AND BE PREPARED TO BUST YOUR *** FOR 5+ YEARS!!!
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