Mechanical vs Robotics vs EEE engineering degree
I'm going into y12 studying maths, fm, physics, and economics. I like doing stuff with arduinos and want to learn more about coding in general. I like maths a lot.
I want to choose the most versatile, good-salary, and in demand field that will allow me to branch out into other fields of engineering, or even other disciplines altogether (finance). I especially want to have transferable skills for more CS jobs like software engineering, because I find it interesting, it pays well and has good future demand.
Also, will doing some sort of combination degree like mechanical and electrical be worse than simply choosing one? I feel like not being specialised will make me less sought after because I don't have specific skills compared to someone who has an EEE degree for example. Final question, is a 5 year MEng degree with a year in placement worth the extra costs and time?
I want to choose the most versatile, good-salary, and in demand field that will allow me to branch out into other fields of engineering, or even other disciplines altogether (finance). I especially want to have transferable skills for more CS jobs like software engineering, because I find it interesting, it pays well and has good future demand.
Also, will doing some sort of combination degree like mechanical and electrical be worse than simply choosing one? I feel like not being specialised will make me less sought after because I don't have specific skills compared to someone who has an EEE degree for example. Final question, is a 5 year MEng degree with a year in placement worth the extra costs and time?
Original post by stilk
I'm going into y12 studying maths, fm, physics, and economics. I like doing stuff with arduinos and want to learn more about coding in general. I like maths a lot.
I want to choose the most versatile, good-salary, and in demand field that will allow me to branch out into other fields of engineering, or even other disciplines altogether (finance). I especially want to have transferable skills for more CS jobs like software engineering, because I find it interesting, it pays well and has good future demand.
Also, will doing some sort of combination degree like mechanical and electrical be worse than simply choosing one? I feel like not being specialised will make me less sought after because I don't have specific skills compared to someone who has an EEE degree for example. Final question, is a 5 year MEng degree with a year in placement worth the extra costs and time?
I want to choose the most versatile, good-salary, and in demand field that will allow me to branch out into other fields of engineering, or even other disciplines altogether (finance). I especially want to have transferable skills for more CS jobs like software engineering, because I find it interesting, it pays well and has good future demand.
Also, will doing some sort of combination degree like mechanical and electrical be worse than simply choosing one? I feel like not being specialised will make me less sought after because I don't have specific skills compared to someone who has an EEE degree for example. Final question, is a 5 year MEng degree with a year in placement worth the extra costs and time?
I’ve always felt specialising towards the end of your studies is better.
Being good at math will help you a lot in coming out with a broad skill set regardless of the degree. I did computational model simulations for my dissertations, something they didn’t even teach. It also involved biology knowledge and was more medical engineering related rather than mechanical engineering, which is what I studied.
Some companies favour an MEng, sometimes because they want staff to pursue CEng status. A year in industry gives you industry links and worthwhile experience, useful even if you want to do a PhD and even stay within academia. Learning the non-technical skills from on-the-job experience is arguably more important long term.
Uni taught me how to teach myself, which is the most important thing I got. Work throw me novel research projects all the time, things not even tied to my specific area of uni study. Work experience taught me how to be efficient and effective.
Ignore salary, nobody starts on the best wage they’ll ever get. Enjoying your job and doing it well will determine how you progress through the salary bands. You’ll likely care more about work-life balance and working flexible hours or remotely than a couple of k a year a decade from now.
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Original post by stilk
I'm going into y12 studying maths, fm, physics, and economics. I like doing stuff with arduinos and want to learn more about coding in general. I like maths a lot.
I want to choose the most versatile, good-salary, and in demand field that will allow me to branch out into other fields of engineering, or even other disciplines altogether (finance). I especially want to have transferable skills for more CS jobs like software engineering, because I find it interesting, it pays well and has good future demand.
I want to choose the most versatile, good-salary, and in demand field that will allow me to branch out into other fields of engineering, or even other disciplines altogether (finance). I especially want to have transferable skills for more CS jobs like software engineering, because I find it interesting, it pays well and has good future demand.
Out of our list, EEE would be the best choice bar far. In fact, if you are particularly interested in software (or other tech) jobs, you may even want to look at a computer science degree.
Also, will doing some sort of combination degree like mechanical and electrical be worse than simply choosing one? I feel like not being specialised will make me less sought after because I don't have specific skills compared to someone who has an EEE degree for example.
Depends on how much content you cover from each discipline. My understanding of mechanical & electrical degrees is that they are primarily mechanical with a few additional electrical modules, so don't quite cover the full spectrum of EEE. But there might be other examples which are different, although "joint" degrees aren't common in engineering.
Final question, is a 5 year MEng degree with a year in placement worth the extra costs and time?
Yes. Having industrial experience will boost your CV.
Original post by stilk
I'm going into y12 studying maths, fm, physics, and economics. I like doing stuff with arduinos and want to learn more about coding in general. I like maths a lot.
I want to choose the most versatile, good-salary, and in demand field that will allow me to branch out into other fields of engineering, or even other disciplines altogether (finance). I especially want to have transferable skills for more CS jobs like software engineering, because I find it interesting, it pays well and has good future demand.
Also, will doing some sort of combination degree like mechanical and electrical be worse than simply choosing one? I feel like not being specialised will make me less sought after because I don't have specific skills compared to someone who has an EEE degree for example. Final question, is a 5 year MEng degree with a year in placement worth the extra costs and time?
I want to choose the most versatile, good-salary, and in demand field that will allow me to branch out into other fields of engineering, or even other disciplines altogether (finance). I especially want to have transferable skills for more CS jobs like software engineering, because I find it interesting, it pays well and has good future demand.
Also, will doing some sort of combination degree like mechanical and electrical be worse than simply choosing one? I feel like not being specialised will make me less sought after because I don't have specific skills compared to someone who has an EEE degree for example. Final question, is a 5 year MEng degree with a year in placement worth the extra costs and time?
This year I've graduated with an Meng in EEE so keep that in mind as I probably have a bias towards my degree.
Choosing what you want to do at university will always feel like a daunting task, and if I had to be in that position again I would still be unsure of what I would want to do.
If you want to chase money bags, then finance is probably the the more reliable route at least from what I hear. Working with money probably gets you a bit of money.
I think the most common response I get whenever I say that I did EEE is that it only covers hardware aspects and not software part of electronics, and I don't really believe that to be entirely true, sure software engineering or computer science definitely has a lot more modules regarding these aspects but there are also modules I did such as CS and programming using Python, C, MATLAB that I used during my years at uni.
After graduating I do understand that there's quite a few paths I can take in my career, I've seen some of my coursemates go into software engineering and some into working on electric vehicles, etc. And funny enough I have seen some people go into banking after their engineering degrees and that could be because the course is challenging and attractive to employers perhaps.
Personally, I think you can choose any of these and have a good salary, if you want to do an engineering degree I've heard alot that Meng is the one employers want more of just as Smack mentioned before. Oddly enough I don't feel that Engineering isn't as maths intensive as I expected it to be, I did A level maths and found that was essentially enough to understand all the calculations for engineering oddly enough. I think finance might involve more varying calculations but I'm not sure
Original post by Fruitbasket786
This year I've graduated with an Meng in EEE so keep that in mind as I probably have a bias towards my degree.
Choosing what you want to do at university will always feel like a daunting task, and if I had to be in that position again I would still be unsure of what I would want to do.
If you want to chase money bags, then finance is probably the the more reliable route at least from what I hear. Working with money probably gets you a bit of money.
I think the most common response I get whenever I say that I did EEE is that it only covers hardware aspects and not software part of electronics, and I don't really believe that to be entirely true, sure software engineering or computer science definitely has a lot more modules regarding these aspects but there are also modules I did such as CS and programming using Python, C, MATLAB that I used during my years at uni.
After graduating I do understand that there's quite a few paths I can take in my career, I've seen some of my coursemates go into software engineering and some into working on electric vehicles, etc. And funny enough I have seen some people go into banking after their engineering degrees and that could be because the course is challenging and attractive to employers perhaps.
Personally, I think you can choose any of these and have a good salary, if you want to do an engineering degree I've heard alot that Meng is the one employers want more of just as Smack mentioned before. Oddly enough I don't feel that Engineering isn't as maths intensive as I expected it to be, I did A level maths and found that was essentially enough to understand all the calculations for engineering oddly enough. I think finance might involve more varying calculations but I'm not sure
Choosing what you want to do at university will always feel like a daunting task, and if I had to be in that position again I would still be unsure of what I would want to do.
If you want to chase money bags, then finance is probably the the more reliable route at least from what I hear. Working with money probably gets you a bit of money.
I think the most common response I get whenever I say that I did EEE is that it only covers hardware aspects and not software part of electronics, and I don't really believe that to be entirely true, sure software engineering or computer science definitely has a lot more modules regarding these aspects but there are also modules I did such as CS and programming using Python, C, MATLAB that I used during my years at uni.
After graduating I do understand that there's quite a few paths I can take in my career, I've seen some of my coursemates go into software engineering and some into working on electric vehicles, etc. And funny enough I have seen some people go into banking after their engineering degrees and that could be because the course is challenging and attractive to employers perhaps.
Personally, I think you can choose any of these and have a good salary, if you want to do an engineering degree I've heard alot that Meng is the one employers want more of just as Smack mentioned before. Oddly enough I don't feel that Engineering isn't as maths intensive as I expected it to be, I did A level maths and found that was essentially enough to understand all the calculations for engineering oddly enough. I think finance might involve more varying calculations but I'm not sure
Congratulations on graduating! do you mind sharing your grades and where you studied? Based on the responses so far it seems like EEE is the way to go. One of my main desires is to do a degree which gives me loads of job opportunities in the future, and I think EEE gives that.
Hi, I am also interested in going into robotics. I was debating whether I should take an undergrad in robotics or instead an undergrad CS degree followed by specialising in robotics with a masters degree.
The robotics course I’m looking at lines up really well with my particular interests in the field and has a focus on the software and systems. However, I feel like I would be specialising too early into robotic systems? I feel as if I should instead gain a broad and solid foundation in computer science to be able to specialise and apply those skills to robotics.
What do you think?
The robotics course I’m looking at lines up really well with my particular interests in the field and has a focus on the software and systems. However, I feel like I would be specialising too early into robotic systems? I feel as if I should instead gain a broad and solid foundation in computer science to be able to specialise and apply those skills to robotics.
What do you think?
Original post by DaydreamLagoon
Hi, I am also interested in going into robotics. I was debating whether I should take an undergrad in robotics or instead an undergrad CS degree followed by specialising in robotics with a masters degree.
The robotics course I’m looking at lines up really well with my particular interests in the field and has a focus on the software and systems. However, I feel like I would be specialising too early into robotic systems? I feel as if I should instead gain a broad and solid foundation in computer science to be able to specialise and apply those skills to robotics.
What do you think?
The robotics course I’m looking at lines up really well with my particular interests in the field and has a focus on the software and systems. However, I feel like I would be specialising too early into robotic systems? I feel as if I should instead gain a broad and solid foundation in computer science to be able to specialise and apply those skills to robotics.
What do you think?
For curiosity, which is the Robotics course that has a focus on the software and systems?
Original post by Ahmed Mubarak
For curiosity, which is the Robotics course that has a focus on the software and systems?
Would mechatronics be good? as mix between mechanical and EEE?
im starting mechatronics MEng (this sept) at the moment and kinda unsure whether to stick with it or change?
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Original post by Fruitbasket786
This year I've graduated with an Meng in EEE so keep that in mind as I probably have a bias towards my degree.
Choosing what you want to do at university will always feel like a daunting task, and if I had to be in that position again I would still be unsure of what I would want to do.
If you want to chase money bags, then finance is probably the the more reliable route at least from what I hear. Working with money probably gets you a bit of money.
I think the most common response I get whenever I say that I did EEE is that it only covers hardware aspects and not software part of electronics, and I don't really believe that to be entirely true, sure software engineering or computer science definitely has a lot more modules regarding these aspects but there are also modules I did such as CS and programming using Python, C, MATLAB that I used during my years at uni.
After graduating I do understand that there's quite a few paths I can take in my career, I've seen some of my coursemates go into software engineering and some into working on electric vehicles, etc. And funny enough I have seen some people go into banking after their engineering degrees and that could be because the course is challenging and attractive to employers perhaps.
Personally, I think you can choose any of these and have a good salary, if you want to do an engineering degree I've heard alot that Meng is the one employers want more of just as Smack mentioned before. Oddly enough I don't feel that Engineering isn't as maths intensive as I expected it to be, I did A level maths and found that was essentially enough to understand all the calculations for engineering oddly enough. I think finance might involve more varying calculations but I'm not sure
Choosing what you want to do at university will always feel like a daunting task, and if I had to be in that position again I would still be unsure of what I would want to do.
If you want to chase money bags, then finance is probably the the more reliable route at least from what I hear. Working with money probably gets you a bit of money.
I think the most common response I get whenever I say that I did EEE is that it only covers hardware aspects and not software part of electronics, and I don't really believe that to be entirely true, sure software engineering or computer science definitely has a lot more modules regarding these aspects but there are also modules I did such as CS and programming using Python, C, MATLAB that I used during my years at uni.
After graduating I do understand that there's quite a few paths I can take in my career, I've seen some of my coursemates go into software engineering and some into working on electric vehicles, etc. And funny enough I have seen some people go into banking after their engineering degrees and that could be because the course is challenging and attractive to employers perhaps.
Personally, I think you can choose any of these and have a good salary, if you want to do an engineering degree I've heard alot that Meng is the one employers want more of just as Smack mentioned before. Oddly enough I don't feel that Engineering isn't as maths intensive as I expected it to be, I did A level maths and found that was essentially enough to understand all the calculations for engineering oddly enough. I think finance might involve more varying calculations but I'm not sure
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