Yep..go M.E....like me
Ditto on the above comments about ME's being more rounded. I actually started out to become an Aerospace engineer! Ha! Some youthful dream of being an specialist on a shuttle mission. Can you imagine that? My tweaking something "up there" while posting on Pelican
No really, I work in an engineering consulting firm, so I see all disciplines of engineering. No offense to anyone who is not an ME, but IMO the ME's are much more capable than the EE's or CE's or Chem E's or Meterial E's (formerly acceptable to call them metallurgists!), etc,...
As an ME in my industry, I do everything from designing buildings, pipelines, pipeline facilities, electrical design for my facilities (with help from my sparky budddies and drafter some times), electrical and pneumatic controls, flow modeling, the list goes on....and I even work with LPG+LNG+N2 injection (that's for you Wil
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The EE's here? They design panels and lighting for my buildings, route conduit, calc wire gauge...make sure the NEC is met and soak up project hours
The most important thing, regardless of one's degree is YOU! How capable are you of learning new things and applying yourself? I have know EE's that were far better mechanical engineers than mechanical engineers! And I know drafters that make far better engineers than the engineers they take instructions from!
An engineering degree does not make you an engineer! You have to be an engineer at heart to be a good engineer...and you don't need an engineering degree to be a good engineer (although it's harder these days to got that route). I see a lot of engineers who would have been better off working as used car sales men. Sure they got through school, but there couldn't design a card board box!
Just like most things in life, you make of it what you want. One really good thing about engineering is that the job market is very good and steady if you have developed yourself to be capable! With what I have seen as a consultant, there will always be a demand for good engineers.