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URGENT - Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
Our Engieering course in malta starts with the first semester being common to both electrical and mechanical engineering but then we split up into 2 different streams in the second semester. Which is tomorrow for me. I was confused as what to choose at the beginning and now I am still not sure.
I didn't like the Manufacturing and Materials part in the Mechanical stream but the mechanics and the thermodynamics were ok. But there were also some modules of the electrical stream which I did not like. Can anyone give me some advice as I have to choose by tomorrow.
The majority of the people are taking Electrical Engineering. Can anyone suggest why. Is the Electrical Engineering more prestigious than the mechanical one or is the other way round? and do you know which course is hareder?
Thank You
I didn't like the Manufacturing and Materials part in the Mechanical stream but the mechanics and the thermodynamics were ok. But there were also some modules of the electrical stream which I did not like. Can anyone give me some advice as I have to choose by tomorrow.
The majority of the people are taking Electrical Engineering. Can anyone suggest why. Is the Electrical Engineering more prestigious than the mechanical one or is the other way round? and do you know which course is hareder?
Thank You
It's up to interest I reckon. Choose the one you enjoy doing, you'll come out with an Engineering degree regardless.
Electrical and mechanical aren't usually compared to one another like this.
They're both roughly on the same level, both have good job prospects, both are roughly at the same level of technical difficulty.
It's totally down to your personal preference I think...
Maybe more people are going for electronics as almost everything is automated now = tons of programming, circuit design & microprocessor work etc basically all electronics based. The mechanical students will do similar work, but to a much lower level. That allows us to concentrate more on materials, stress analysis, thermodynamics fundamental theory etc.
Maybe ask some older students what they thought of each course and go from there.
They're both roughly on the same level, both have good job prospects, both are roughly at the same level of technical difficulty.
It's totally down to your personal preference I think...
Maybe more people are going for electronics as almost everything is automated now = tons of programming, circuit design & microprocessor work etc basically all electronics based. The mechanical students will do similar work, but to a much lower level. That allows us to concentrate more on materials, stress analysis, thermodynamics fundamental theory etc.
Maybe ask some older students what they thought of each course and go from there.
Like mamba says, its really down to your personal prerence.
- Pick the one you think you will enjoy most.
- If you dont like it, you wont do so well, so picking one because its more prestigious is rubish.
From what you've writen, it sounds like you prefre machanical more?
- Certainly thats what i would be doing if i had the choice!
Daniel
- Pick the one you think you will enjoy most.
- If you dont like it, you wont do so well, so picking one because its more prestigious is rubish.
From what you've writen, it sounds like you prefre machanical more?
- Certainly thats what i would be doing if i had the choice!
Daniel
As a second yr mechanical engineer i'd highly recommend Mech eng ! And besides we still have to cover aspects of electrical engineering in our course and i think overall Mech Eng is far more broader in terms of applications.
I'm finding in my course I'm doing ethics essays, designing coffee makers and studying law (interlectual property and patenting) alongside doing mechatronics, statics and dynamics and heat engines. Also i think electrical engineering is uber boring!
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I'm finding in my course I'm doing ethics essays, designing coffee makers and studying law (interlectual property and patenting) alongside doing mechatronics, statics and dynamics and heat engines. Also i think electrical engineering is uber boring!
.You design coffee makers? Not bad. I'm in my 3rd year of mech eng and still haven't really had the opportunity to design anything myself, and when I did it was in CAD, but the tutor loved it so much he used my model to show to new students. God damn my crap uni. Oh yeah another tip; choose a good uni with lots of facilities and decent equipment - it makes a big difference to both electronics and mechanical eng.
It the moment we're working on our "suger project"
Its an annual 7week project set by our lecutures, and sponsered by british sugar.
- Every year they come up with a sugar-related problem for us to solve with a purely mechanical machine, driven solely by one small motor (windscreen wiper motor, which is given) and or gravity.
- Apprently British sugar where having a huge problem recruiting enough new engineers to work for them, dispight having a very good graduate training scheme, and aproached loughborough in an attemt to boost awareness of "engineering in sugar"
And i though this was quite interesting, espcially as i had never though of "sugar" as a very "engineering" thing. (i guess so did everyone else, hence they where short of people)
And this years task is to design and make a machine that can sort a 'hopper' (plastic cup) full of pairs of wrapped silverspoon sugar cubes from single (unwrapped) cubes. Placing the seperated cubes into two seperate 'hoppers'
- Simular to a machine that would be found in the factory, after the wraping machine, to filter out miss-wraped cubes.
Last years the task was to mesure three 20g quanitys into three diffrent cups, again, purely mechanical, all dirve off one motor. (the scenario a venting machine dispatching suger)
So far, using two cerial boxes, and about half a meter of tape, we have a deivice that will work 90% effrently, using only gravity.
Daniel
Its an annual 7week project set by our lecutures, and sponsered by british sugar.
- Every year they come up with a sugar-related problem for us to solve with a purely mechanical machine, driven solely by one small motor (windscreen wiper motor, which is given) and or gravity.
- Apprently British sugar where having a huge problem recruiting enough new engineers to work for them, dispight having a very good graduate training scheme, and aproached loughborough in an attemt to boost awareness of "engineering in sugar"
And i though this was quite interesting, espcially as i had never though of "sugar" as a very "engineering" thing. (i guess so did everyone else, hence they where short of people)
And this years task is to design and make a machine that can sort a 'hopper' (plastic cup) full of pairs of wrapped silverspoon sugar cubes from single (unwrapped) cubes. Placing the seperated cubes into two seperate 'hoppers'
- Simular to a machine that would be found in the factory, after the wraping machine, to filter out miss-wraped cubes.
Last years the task was to mesure three 20g quanitys into three diffrent cups, again, purely mechanical, all dirve off one motor. (the scenario a venting machine dispatching suger)
So far, using two cerial boxes, and about half a meter of tape, we have a deivice that will work 90% effrently, using only gravity.
Daniel
That actually sounds like a right laugh.
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