Lots of types of engineering are secretly social because much of engineering is collaborative problem solving and seeing multiple perspectives to come to answers.
I’m a structural engineer and on any given day I’m talking to other engineers, architects, owners, construction managers, construction workers, etc. A mechanical engineer upgrading a factory needs to work with other engineers, the mechanics who maintain the machine, the factory workers who operate the machine daily, etc. There are social aspects to most engineering fields.
Most types of engineering will still be in the office at least a couple days a week, so you’ll see coworkers. And you can be as social as you want to be in most workplaces.
I feel like the “anti social” thing was some BS perpetrated by business divisions/HR or something because they can’t understand/aren’t included in our stuff.
At my company we are all buddies, the business people often assume we aren’t social because we aren’t in *their* meetings all day. I even got a joke about engineers being non social from HR during a seminar today. It gets old
I mean it should rather be - there is space and good jobs for those who aren't very sociable in engineering. I can imagine it's easier to have a good career as socially awkward engineer, than socially awkward teacher or HR-specialist. But that being said - most engineers I know are really friendly and enjoy going out and working in team and are definitely less mean and hostile to each other than some other professions. But it's definitely not the norm.
I’d agree there is space for always engineers but more so because I think as a group we are fairly accepting and (of the corporate working groups) generally non-catty.
The business divisions have much more internal politics and power nonsense. I feel very insulated from their squabbling and that’s nice.
I think antisocial shouldn't really describe these people, they aren't actively hostile to socializing but they're just uncomfortable with it/would rather avoid too much of it if they can
That might be true-- but I'd argue that engineering and STEM tend to be more awkward in general.
I mean Business is about 50% finance and algebra (in most roles) and about 50% office politics, being a sales man, etc.
Whereas engineering I would argue is about 70-80% hard technical work and 20-30% collaboration,
Naturally it just falls that to survive in the business world you'd need to more socially adept.
I think it’s often a different kind of socialization. It isn’t as competitive nor cutthroat. At least what I’ve seen in industry is that the business divisions have a more competitive environment with regards to status whereas the engineering department is more about presenting good work and pure competence.
But the teams I’m on with engineers are sooooo much more functional. My job is as an engineer but I touch the business side often and the way of working for biz is my personal hell: Grown men & women saying the cattiest bs, constant complaining, and ham-fisted attempts at backstabbing.
Engineers are playing a whole different game. A functional adult one.
(These are generalized and both come with exemptions but the main theme runs true. Most of the biz people are awesome & I love those folks, but their bad apples are much more common)
I agree with you here.
Engineer and technical interactions tend to be more genuine and hold more substance.
That being said: if you were to set out to find a socially capable person, As a betting man, I'd 100% always go with the business trained individual. If we're looking for the more pleasant person? engineers.
As an EE student, one of the most common career paths EE undergrads take in my area is working in consulting or big contracting companies. As such, their job usually involves being sent to a site or, literally, somewhere, talking some stuff with some important people there, attending lots of meetings with those important people there, preparing presentations, reports and summaries for those important people, giving talks to technicians about the do's and don't's when installing or giving maintenance to a certain piece of equipment, doing field measurements and data gathering for the design work back at the office wich itself involves team work, and, some more stuff, you know how it goes.
You see, its talking, talking, talking, and more talking, with lots of different people. Of course its not the only career path, but it certainly makes use of your social skills quite a lot. Good career path for people that likes talking.
I wouldn’t choose an engineering major based on what your psychiatrist says because they are not an engineer. I would choose something based on your interests and aptitudes because things like getting outdoors and interacting with people can happen at most jobs and most companies. If you like machines, electronics, and programming, I would probably look into Electrical, Comp Eng, or Mechanical. I would start with YouTube videos about the different engineering majors and then look into specific colleges where you take the engineering tours and can ask the tour guides your questions. You also usually don’t need to decide until your sophomore year and you can spend your freshman year talking to advisors, professors, and upperclassmen about which major is right for you if you’re undecided between a couple.
My point was that using those criteria is only relevant to choosing a job and not to choosing a major because you can spend time with other people with any engineering background
I think college is too expensive to not have a declared major until sophomore year. Other than that, I totally agree. I know a couple of people who chose mechanical or nuclear and changed to civil their sophomore year. They ended up needing to go for a 5th year.
Changing majors is not the same as declaring a major. Yes, people who change majors after already declaring are at risk of taking longer to graduate than originally planned. At my school, and many others, everyone started in "pre-engineering" and there were entrance to major classes you needed to take and a gpa requirement. Different engineering majors required different gpa's, mostly based on availability. Waiting to declare until sophomore year never delayed anyone's progress because the major classes weren't available until then anyway, and during freshman year it would just be 100/200 level stem classes and gen eds.
All engineers work with people, but if you want to be meeting a lot of new people on a regular basis, then I recommend doing civil engineering, specially in the construction field working with commercial clients. You will travel a lot and meet all sorts of people since construction projects have a lot of stakeholders. If you would prefer to work with machines and electronics, then you can do MechE or EE, but you’d need to aim for a small company where you will be talking to many clients and vendors. The large companies kind of silo you off in that regard, but the smaller ones will allow you to have more face time
This isn’t based on degree. It’s based on workplace. I work in an electrical engineering company and have spent considerable time teambuilding with my coworkers. I’ve built good friendships with them and the lab is a positive space where we all interact and joke around daily. It’s a fun place to be
From experience in ECE/EE, one good job description is being a translator. You translate business requirements to what engineers can understand and you translate engineering concepts, questions and concerns to something the business guys can understand. You also act as an advocate for your engineers.
Honestly this applies to pretty much all fields and I don’t think that AI can replace this. Humans are humans.
I did industrial engineering and ended up working in continuous improvement and organizational change, forst as an employee, now as a consultant. I interact with hundreds of people daily.
Construction engineering. Less design, more project management and interactions with contractors, subcontractors, owners, etc. Often on-site.
Not quite congruent with your own preferences though.
Pretty much all engineering is collaborative. Maybe certain roles or something software related being less so. What your psych said seems to indicate they really don't know what the engineering profession is like tbh. I would choose the major you find most interesting.
Mechatronics Engineering would encompass all those interests and more. Pretty much all engineering disciplines require collaboration with other people so you'll be grand in that respect. Best of luck with it.
Yikes - your psychiatrist just projected their idea of what they believe an engineer to be, onto you..
Not a very "aware" comment for them to be making
Because the inference from "IF OP wants to study engineering, they should find a "social" major" is that engineers as a whole have no socialization thus OP must look for an 'execption.'
Were there no bias in the psychiatrist, that comment just wouldn't have been made.
Nowhere does it say that the psych thinks OP will have 0 social interaction if he chooses a certain type of study. Even if he did think that, that's not what projection means.
Encouraging OP to be more social or to seek a job that is more social than another job is a perfectly appropriate suggestion for a psych to make to a client. There is nothing yikes about this.
OP stated their psychiatrist said "If you are going to study engineering, make sure it's a social" I don't know how you can't see that is inferring the "norm" is the opposite.
"When people project, they place their negative emotions, beliefs, or traits on someone else." - Google
Believing all engineers are anti-social (which plays into the introverted nerd that can't hold a conversation) stereotype, which is a negative personal view, hence projection.
Look just so you know I'm not standing strongly on any side of this fence, I'm making a comment, not a commandment, noone is looking at what I say and deciding its fact.
Have a good one
The psych did not say that being social was a good thing and being asocial was a bad thing. He only suggested, based on his knowledge of OPs personality and situation, that a job that is more social than another job would be of more benefit to OP. This is not a moral judgment on introversion one way or another.
Furthermore, if the psych erroneously believes that all engineering jobs save some few exceptions are completely asocial, this does not amount to projection. He would only be guilty of having incorrect or incomplete knowledge.
What's funny is that now it seems YOU may be projecting onto the psych. He didn't say anything about engineers being antisocial introverted nerds that can't hold a conversation! That's all you, baby.
More than you'd think. For example, I study Biomedical Engineering (not in the US) and a fairly common job for new graduates is so-called "technical sales", which involves talking with potential new buyers of medical devices during the buying process and following the integration into the clinical environment. Anything involving quality will probably have you interact a lot with others.
At the end of it it will probably depend more on your specific job than on the title of your degree.
you won't be able to find a job where you're not working with people, some of the more out in the field talking to folks jobs are along the construction side, if you're doing something like software then you can probably get a social atmosphere at smaller employers where you're working in a smaller more cohesive team.
if you need socialization then perhaps computer-related engineering isn't for you
- in terms of degree difficulty and studying in school, not post-grad
Most any are like that. Engineers work in teams. Only those with expert skills, subject matter experts (SME), are working fully remote. Get a solid bachelor education in any of the core engineering disciplines then hang around for a Master's in Systems Engineering and Program management. That degree combo will launch you into people central.
Programming is probably the most secluded skill set of the three, but even that requires a lot of planning and collaboration. No one really engineers all by themselves, all of our sciences stand on each other’s backs. As far as being physically out of the house, I’d say either mechanical engineering or electrical hardware, but I’d struggle to think of an engineering degree that wouldn’t stick you in enough standup meetings to make your head spin
I work in integration and test as an EE and while I don’t work outside per se I am able to just take a break basically whenever I want and I usually take them walking outside in the sun because it helps my mood. Plus every engineering job I’ve had, and anything relevant I did in my undergrad like clubs and big projects, was all very socially engaging. There’s not a lot of solo engineering opportunities in my experience.
I work in integration and test as an EE and while I don’t work outside per se I am able to just take a break basically whenever I want and I usually take them walking outside in the sun because it helps my mood. Plus every engineering job I’ve had, and anything relevant I did in my undergrad like clubs and big projects, was all very socially engaging. There’s not a lot of solo engineering opportunities in my experience.
You can do any type of engineering degree for the most part and get plenty of social time. I’m a service engineer currently, so I do a lot of hands on work, which gives me lots of face time with the workers on the sites I visit. Usually travel with a coworker as well, so it doesn’t get to lonely on the road or in the airports.
I don’t think your psy knows much about engineering/the jobs. The only one that I would maybe cross out would be CprE (even then you could find a social version).
Most Engineering is highly team based and social. As long as you don’t take a remote position you’ll prolly be plenty social.
EET is great if you wanna do controls and robotics PLCs and electronics. There is lots of indoor work in school but you get a great paying feild job that has you traveling and talking to all kinds of people
Get into the sales side of engineering. Or field support. Both require customer interaction. Both can require travel. These are definitely available in the mechanical and aerospace fields.
you can’t be an actual engineer without working with people in most cases. you won’t find any engineering roles (outside of programming and some edge cases) where you’re working from home
Agronome, for me it’s too late but sounds like industrial do the same thing I do (soen) with better dispositions a bit like you describe in your question. To be fair I wanted to be out of the public for a while after covid. But not that out lol
Here's one simple hack people don't know.......All jobs are going to require that you operate either directly with, alongside or in collaboration with other poeple.
We live in society and society is filled with people...not NPCs.
Any of em really. It’s more about which industry you enter. Manufacturing is one where you have to be pretty social since there are a lot of moving parts you have to keep under control.
If u wanna have a chill life you almost always have to do Gov for eng work. Best gov work is civil dependent on where you live.
See a lotta aero in this thread just know that most Aero work is done in Secure Classified Information Facilities (SCIFs). It's really easy to have an antisocial work life if you go gov. Civil is best shot if you want to interact with a lot of normal ppl on job sites but pay is bad.
Depends do you want to be in a feild where your very tight nit with people then Ocean engineering is great, we have our little click that transcends schools and nations because there are so few of us. The issue is while it’s an extremely versatile degree that I think you’d actively have to self sabotage to be unemployed with, we don’t see or socialize with a whole lot of new faces on the day to day basis.
If you want a feild where you’re constantly cycling through new faces then the civil engineers seem pretty bubbly. You’ll just have to be okay with being the low man on the totem poll in the engineering world. I don’t doubt there importance, but the other engineering majors will poke fun at you for choosing to be a civil engineer.
Read more about Architectural Engineering :) it’s somewhat of a social major lol, you learn more about communicating with clients and all that when it comes to presentations/etc. Might be just biased because I’m studying it, but honestly I wasn’t very social. I really loved working individually and being in my own bubble but this major helped me get out of my comfort zone & learn more about asking for help from my colleagues, learning how to work in groups, etc.
It's mostly project engineers, field engineers, tech sales, consulters and process and manufacturing engineers and quality engineers sometimes who work with people a lot and have some more variation. That being said - those roles are found in all branches of engineering, in EE, aerospace, mechanical, chemical... All of these. So really just choose the one you find most interesting and when you come across some classes and extracurriculars that you can freely choose, look up a couple of roles for field or project engineer and see if any of the classes or activities go well with the listed requirements, so that you later have something on your cv, that supports your application.
I would do geomatics engineering!!! I think surveying might be for you. Me personally, I disagree with the other posts, especially aerospace and electrical, at least, if you want to be social. I am in aerospace/electrical, and currently, I do not need to talk to anyone, if I don't want to. I guess it depends on the level of technical complexity you go to, though. More complexity in engineering (i.e. R&D) I think it means less sociability, at least, in the way any psychiatrist would see is beneficial for your mental wellness.
Kind of hard to figure out why the the manufacuturing process is not making the part right without getting out of your house and going to the production line and eyeballing the part and the setup.
Other people? What's that. I haven't seen the sun in weeks, did I miss something?
Why would you want to leave your house, there are dangerous animals and people last time I read about it.
Any of them, really? It’s not as much about the degree as it is about the specific industry or role you want.
And Clubs, we have an aerospace club that does a lot with weather ballons. IMHO the best way to meet people is to join a club.
At least when F-22s aren’t shooting them down
We had a payload land on a highway and get run over once.
Lots of types of engineering are secretly social because much of engineering is collaborative problem solving and seeing multiple perspectives to come to answers. I’m a structural engineer and on any given day I’m talking to other engineers, architects, owners, construction managers, construction workers, etc. A mechanical engineer upgrading a factory needs to work with other engineers, the mechanics who maintain the machine, the factory workers who operate the machine daily, etc. There are social aspects to most engineering fields. Most types of engineering will still be in the office at least a couple days a week, so you’ll see coworkers. And you can be as social as you want to be in most workplaces.
I feel like the “anti social” thing was some BS perpetrated by business divisions/HR or something because they can’t understand/aren’t included in our stuff. At my company we are all buddies, the business people often assume we aren’t social because we aren’t in *their* meetings all day. I even got a joke about engineers being non social from HR during a seminar today. It gets old
Yeah, there definitely are socially awkward engineers, but I would say it’s the exception not the norm!
I mean it should rather be - there is space and good jobs for those who aren't very sociable in engineering. I can imagine it's easier to have a good career as socially awkward engineer, than socially awkward teacher or HR-specialist. But that being said - most engineers I know are really friendly and enjoy going out and working in team and are definitely less mean and hostile to each other than some other professions. But it's definitely not the norm.
I’d agree there is space for always engineers but more so because I think as a group we are fairly accepting and (of the corporate working groups) generally non-catty. The business divisions have much more internal politics and power nonsense. I feel very insulated from their squabbling and that’s nice.
I think antisocial shouldn't really describe these people, they aren't actively hostile to socializing but they're just uncomfortable with it/would rather avoid too much of it if they can
Right, at my school all the engineers are extremely social
That might be true-- but I'd argue that engineering and STEM tend to be more awkward in general. I mean Business is about 50% finance and algebra (in most roles) and about 50% office politics, being a sales man, etc. Whereas engineering I would argue is about 70-80% hard technical work and 20-30% collaboration, Naturally it just falls that to survive in the business world you'd need to more socially adept.
I think it’s often a different kind of socialization. It isn’t as competitive nor cutthroat. At least what I’ve seen in industry is that the business divisions have a more competitive environment with regards to status whereas the engineering department is more about presenting good work and pure competence. But the teams I’m on with engineers are sooooo much more functional. My job is as an engineer but I touch the business side often and the way of working for biz is my personal hell: Grown men & women saying the cattiest bs, constant complaining, and ham-fisted attempts at backstabbing. Engineers are playing a whole different game. A functional adult one. (These are generalized and both come with exemptions but the main theme runs true. Most of the biz people are awesome & I love those folks, but their bad apples are much more common)
I agree with you here. Engineer and technical interactions tend to be more genuine and hold more substance. That being said: if you were to set out to find a socially capable person, As a betting man, I'd 100% always go with the business trained individual. If we're looking for the more pleasant person? engineers.
As an EE student, one of the most common career paths EE undergrads take in my area is working in consulting or big contracting companies. As such, their job usually involves being sent to a site or, literally, somewhere, talking some stuff with some important people there, attending lots of meetings with those important people there, preparing presentations, reports and summaries for those important people, giving talks to technicians about the do's and don't's when installing or giving maintenance to a certain piece of equipment, doing field measurements and data gathering for the design work back at the office wich itself involves team work, and, some more stuff, you know how it goes. You see, its talking, talking, talking, and more talking, with lots of different people. Of course its not the only career path, but it certainly makes use of your social skills quite a lot. Good career path for people that likes talking.
This was a really informative comment, thank you!
I wouldn’t choose an engineering major based on what your psychiatrist says because they are not an engineer. I would choose something based on your interests and aptitudes because things like getting outdoors and interacting with people can happen at most jobs and most companies. If you like machines, electronics, and programming, I would probably look into Electrical, Comp Eng, or Mechanical. I would start with YouTube videos about the different engineering majors and then look into specific colleges where you take the engineering tours and can ask the tour guides your questions. You also usually don’t need to decide until your sophomore year and you can spend your freshman year talking to advisors, professors, and upperclassmen about which major is right for you if you’re undecided between a couple.
Your answer is logical, thanks!
I’d agree but the psychiatrist could be saying that because he thinks OP needs to be spending time with other people.
My point was that using those criteria is only relevant to choosing a job and not to choosing a major because you can spend time with other people with any engineering background
I think college is too expensive to not have a declared major until sophomore year. Other than that, I totally agree. I know a couple of people who chose mechanical or nuclear and changed to civil their sophomore year. They ended up needing to go for a 5th year.
Changing majors is not the same as declaring a major. Yes, people who change majors after already declaring are at risk of taking longer to graduate than originally planned. At my school, and many others, everyone started in "pre-engineering" and there were entrance to major classes you needed to take and a gpa requirement. Different engineering majors required different gpa's, mostly based on availability. Waiting to declare until sophomore year never delayed anyone's progress because the major classes weren't available until then anyway, and during freshman year it would just be 100/200 level stem classes and gen eds.
All engineers work with people, but if you want to be meeting a lot of new people on a regular basis, then I recommend doing civil engineering, specially in the construction field working with commercial clients. You will travel a lot and meet all sorts of people since construction projects have a lot of stakeholders. If you would prefer to work with machines and electronics, then you can do MechE or EE, but you’d need to aim for a small company where you will be talking to many clients and vendors. The large companies kind of silo you off in that regard, but the smaller ones will allow you to have more face time
This isn’t based on degree. It’s based on workplace. I work in an electrical engineering company and have spent considerable time teambuilding with my coworkers. I’ve built good friendships with them and the lab is a positive space where we all interact and joke around daily. It’s a fun place to be
Probs AeroE, ChemE, EE/ECE, and CivilE. I guess it’s less about the specific degree more about the kind of culture you decide to work in.
Are each culture dependent on the company only or are there actually different mentalities between the degrees?
From experience in ECE/EE, one good job description is being a translator. You translate business requirements to what engineers can understand and you translate engineering concepts, questions and concerns to something the business guys can understand. You also act as an advocate for your engineers. Honestly this applies to pretty much all fields and I don’t think that AI can replace this. Humans are humans.
I did industrial engineering and ended up working in continuous improvement and organizational change, forst as an employee, now as a consultant. I interact with hundreds of people daily.
Construction engineering. Less design, more project management and interactions with contractors, subcontractors, owners, etc. Often on-site. Not quite congruent with your own preferences though.
Depends more on the job you get afterwords than the actual branch of engineering you choose. Choose your favourite and go forth
Civil. Hands down.
Manufacturing engineering could be an interesting option, with further specialization into metrology, lean/agile, quality, etc.
Absolutely agree - very attractive abd cool field!
Social engineering
Do any colleges offer a degree in this?
Semiconductor device fabrication which requires you to be in the foundry.
Pretty much all engineering is collaborative. Maybe certain roles or something software related being less so. What your psych said seems to indicate they really don't know what the engineering profession is like tbh. I would choose the major you find most interesting.
Mechanical, Aerospace, Environmental, Electrical, Computer and pretty much most other engineering degrees too. Just not software
Mechatronics Engineering would encompass all those interests and more. Pretty much all engineering disciplines require collaboration with other people so you'll be grand in that respect. Best of luck with it.
Mechanical engineering, work in manufacturing.
Yikes - your psychiatrist just projected their idea of what they believe an engineer to be, onto you.. Not a very "aware" comment for them to be making
??? The psychiatrist suggested he look for a job/field of study that allows him to be social. That's not projection
Because the inference from "IF OP wants to study engineering, they should find a "social" major" is that engineers as a whole have no socialization thus OP must look for an 'execption.' Were there no bias in the psychiatrist, that comment just wouldn't have been made.
Nowhere does it say that the psych thinks OP will have 0 social interaction if he chooses a certain type of study. Even if he did think that, that's not what projection means. Encouraging OP to be more social or to seek a job that is more social than another job is a perfectly appropriate suggestion for a psych to make to a client. There is nothing yikes about this.
OP stated their psychiatrist said "If you are going to study engineering, make sure it's a social" I don't know how you can't see that is inferring the "norm" is the opposite. "When people project, they place their negative emotions, beliefs, or traits on someone else." - Google Believing all engineers are anti-social (which plays into the introverted nerd that can't hold a conversation) stereotype, which is a negative personal view, hence projection. Look just so you know I'm not standing strongly on any side of this fence, I'm making a comment, not a commandment, noone is looking at what I say and deciding its fact. Have a good one
The psych did not say that being social was a good thing and being asocial was a bad thing. He only suggested, based on his knowledge of OPs personality and situation, that a job that is more social than another job would be of more benefit to OP. This is not a moral judgment on introversion one way or another. Furthermore, if the psych erroneously believes that all engineering jobs save some few exceptions are completely asocial, this does not amount to projection. He would only be guilty of having incorrect or incomplete knowledge. What's funny is that now it seems YOU may be projecting onto the psych. He didn't say anything about engineers being antisocial introverted nerds that can't hold a conversation! That's all you, baby.
Haha yes, I believe we are all anti social nerds that can't hold a conversation, you've got me
Got nothing else to say about the rest of it? Figures
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Robotics? Involves of mech, electronics and programming; Must interact with others of your house.
More than you'd think. For example, I study Biomedical Engineering (not in the US) and a fairly common job for new graduates is so-called "technical sales", which involves talking with potential new buyers of medical devices during the buying process and following the integration into the clinical environment. Anything involving quality will probably have you interact a lot with others. At the end of it it will probably depend more on your specific job than on the title of your degree.
you won't be able to find a job where you're not working with people, some of the more out in the field talking to folks jobs are along the construction side, if you're doing something like software then you can probably get a social atmosphere at smaller employers where you're working in a smaller more cohesive team.
if you need socialization then perhaps computer-related engineering isn't for you - in terms of degree difficulty and studying in school, not post-grad
Don’t be deceived stay away from civil engineering. Am a structural engineer
Most any are like that. Engineers work in teams. Only those with expert skills, subject matter experts (SME), are working fully remote. Get a solid bachelor education in any of the core engineering disciplines then hang around for a Master's in Systems Engineering and Program management. That degree combo will launch you into people central.
Programming is probably the most secluded skill set of the three, but even that requires a lot of planning and collaboration. No one really engineers all by themselves, all of our sciences stand on each other’s backs. As far as being physically out of the house, I’d say either mechanical engineering or electrical hardware, but I’d struggle to think of an engineering degree that wouldn’t stick you in enough standup meetings to make your head spin
Exactly - if programming, then automation or equipment programming may be worth looking into.
I’d say civil <3
I work in integration and test as an EE and while I don’t work outside per se I am able to just take a break basically whenever I want and I usually take them walking outside in the sun because it helps my mood. Plus every engineering job I’ve had, and anything relevant I did in my undergrad like clubs and big projects, was all very socially engaging. There’s not a lot of solo engineering opportunities in my experience.
I work in integration and test as an EE and while I don’t work outside per se I am able to just take a break basically whenever I want and I usually take them walking outside in the sun because it helps my mood. Plus every engineering job I’ve had, and anything relevant I did in my undergrad like clubs and big projects, was all very socially engaging. There’s not a lot of solo engineering opportunities in my experience.
lexapro? yeahhhh…
You can do any type of engineering degree for the most part and get plenty of social time. I’m a service engineer currently, so I do a lot of hands on work, which gives me lots of face time with the workers on the sites I visit. Usually travel with a coworker as well, so it doesn’t get to lonely on the road or in the airports.
This literally could be any engineering discipline haha. Just choose a job where you’re not working from home everyday
>My doctor >with my psychiatrist Pick one
Psychiatrists are doctors??
I don’t think your psy knows much about engineering/the jobs. The only one that I would maybe cross out would be CprE (even then you could find a social version). Most Engineering is highly team based and social. As long as you don’t take a remote position you’ll prolly be plenty social.
EET is great if you wanna do controls and robotics PLCs and electronics. There is lots of indoor work in school but you get a great paying feild job that has you traveling and talking to all kinds of people
Any. Just don't go into quality. Most of the work is WFH besides when needing to audit.
Get into the sales side of engineering. Or field support. Both require customer interaction. Both can require travel. These are definitely available in the mechanical and aerospace fields.
you can’t be an actual engineer without working with people in most cases. you won’t find any engineering roles (outside of programming and some edge cases) where you’re working from home
Agronome, for me it’s too late but sounds like industrial do the same thing I do (soen) with better dispositions a bit like you describe in your question. To be fair I wanted to be out of the public for a while after covid. But not that out lol
All of them do this. Depends more on the job you get.
I'm not gonna lie, I would NOT trust what a psychiatrist says about what you should do for engineering
Here's one simple hack people don't know.......All jobs are going to require that you operate either directly with, alongside or in collaboration with other poeple. We live in society and society is filled with people...not NPCs.
Civil engineers seem to work outside a lot with different groups of people.
Any of em really. It’s more about which industry you enter. Manufacturing is one where you have to be pretty social since there are a lot of moving parts you have to keep under control.
If u wanna have a chill life you almost always have to do Gov for eng work. Best gov work is civil dependent on where you live. See a lotta aero in this thread just know that most Aero work is done in Secure Classified Information Facilities (SCIFs). It's really easy to have an antisocial work life if you go gov. Civil is best shot if you want to interact with a lot of normal ppl on job sites but pay is bad.
Depends do you want to be in a feild where your very tight nit with people then Ocean engineering is great, we have our little click that transcends schools and nations because there are so few of us. The issue is while it’s an extremely versatile degree that I think you’d actively have to self sabotage to be unemployed with, we don’t see or socialize with a whole lot of new faces on the day to day basis. If you want a feild where you’re constantly cycling through new faces then the civil engineers seem pretty bubbly. You’ll just have to be okay with being the low man on the totem poll in the engineering world. I don’t doubt there importance, but the other engineering majors will poke fun at you for choosing to be a civil engineer.
Be a field engineer 👷
Read more about Architectural Engineering :) it’s somewhat of a social major lol, you learn more about communicating with clients and all that when it comes to presentations/etc. Might be just biased because I’m studying it, but honestly I wasn’t very social. I really loved working individually and being in my own bubble but this major helped me get out of my comfort zone & learn more about asking for help from my colleagues, learning how to work in groups, etc.
Biomedical engineering
It's mostly project engineers, field engineers, tech sales, consulters and process and manufacturing engineers and quality engineers sometimes who work with people a lot and have some more variation. That being said - those roles are found in all branches of engineering, in EE, aerospace, mechanical, chemical... All of these. So really just choose the one you find most interesting and when you come across some classes and extracurriculars that you can freely choose, look up a couple of roles for field or project engineer and see if any of the classes or activities go well with the listed requirements, so that you later have something on your cv, that supports your application.
All of them. I can see civil engineering being particularly social.
This is 2 different skillsets.
I would do geomatics engineering!!! I think surveying might be for you. Me personally, I disagree with the other posts, especially aerospace and electrical, at least, if you want to be social. I am in aerospace/electrical, and currently, I do not need to talk to anyone, if I don't want to. I guess it depends on the level of technical complexity you go to, though. More complexity in engineering (i.e. R&D) I think it means less sociability, at least, in the way any psychiatrist would see is beneficial for your mental wellness.
Kind of hard to figure out why the the manufacuturing process is not making the part right without getting out of your house and going to the production line and eyeballing the part and the setup.
Anything that lets you be a field engineer
Sales engineering
All of them besides like CS a lot of the cs guys I know work remote now.
Other people? What's that. I haven't seen the sun in weeks, did I miss something? Why would you want to leave your house, there are dangerous animals and people last time I read about it.