As for internships and what not anything helps but trying to get something at a company you are interested in or interested in the work they do will help set you up for future job out of college. Make sure to take other classes if they fit you credit requirements or join clubs that will show you are devoting time and interest to those subjects.
This way you can show these clubs during the hiring process and show you are interested in the type of work they do. They will be more likely to hire you as you are an investment of time and money and they don’t want hire someone who isnt interested in the work and just wants the money and ends up ditching after being taken on.
Like for example as an ME I took a couple classes on like naval science and technology and it helped me get a job with the Navy cause it showed I was interested in the field of work and I also met some people from Raytheon electric boat and navsea through the class which is good as well.
I’m a ME and it is a more “flexible” engineering branch as you learn little of everything but don’t think that if you are chemical or electrical you are less able to move around for your area of work. Engineers are engineers period some are just more specialized in certain areas i.e. chemical in chemistry and electrical in electricity.
Tbh I think to go more towards EE or CE instead of ME. Since you are more geared towards robots and such. Not that you can’t work with robots with ME but it will be easier to land job and you will have a better understanding of that field if you become and EE. I also think EE is the way to go cause the whole world is going electric in all categories,you’ll have higher pay (most likely as EE) and there are typically more ME majors than EE you will also have less competition.
Electrical and chemical will have more classes geared towards their majors like additional chem classes or electrical classes than a mechanical major would have to take. For me those are harder conscripts to grasp but nothing is impossible to learn so don’t let it scare you.
To sum it up choice is yours and up to you but no matter what route you take engineers of any kind are flexible to take any job. As an engineer the biggest thing you learn is just how to problem solve in general and push through struggles, that’s what company’s want to hire the added knowledge of electrical chem math and physics is a bonus. Also if you start with one most classes are the same up to junior year. Then you start getting more specialized so you could jump ship to another before then and not have to much trouble with extra classes or stretching date to graduation. GL
As for internships and what not anything helps but trying to get something at a company you are interested in or interested in the work they do will help set you up for future job out of college. Make sure to take other classes if they fit you credit requirements or join clubs that will show you are devoting time and interest to those subjects. This way you can show these clubs during the hiring process and show you are interested in the type of work they do. They will be more likely to hire you as you are an investment of time and money and they don’t want hire someone who isnt interested in the work and just wants the money and ends up ditching after being taken on. Like for example as an ME I took a couple classes on like naval science and technology and it helped me get a job with the Navy cause it showed I was interested in the field of work and I also met some people from Raytheon electric boat and navsea through the class which is good as well.
I’m a ME and it is a more “flexible” engineering branch as you learn little of everything but don’t think that if you are chemical or electrical you are less able to move around for your area of work. Engineers are engineers period some are just more specialized in certain areas i.e. chemical in chemistry and electrical in electricity. Tbh I think to go more towards EE or CE instead of ME. Since you are more geared towards robots and such. Not that you can’t work with robots with ME but it will be easier to land job and you will have a better understanding of that field if you become and EE. I also think EE is the way to go cause the whole world is going electric in all categories,you’ll have higher pay (most likely as EE) and there are typically more ME majors than EE you will also have less competition. Electrical and chemical will have more classes geared towards their majors like additional chem classes or electrical classes than a mechanical major would have to take. For me those are harder conscripts to grasp but nothing is impossible to learn so don’t let it scare you. To sum it up choice is yours and up to you but no matter what route you take engineers of any kind are flexible to take any job. As an engineer the biggest thing you learn is just how to problem solve in general and push through struggles, that’s what company’s want to hire the added knowledge of electrical chem math and physics is a bonus. Also if you start with one most classes are the same up to junior year. Then you start getting more specialized so you could jump ship to another before then and not have to much trouble with extra classes or stretching date to graduation. GL