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Oh, okay. I'm from Brazil, and here Engineering physics is pretty much a new course. The program seems attractive, but the job market here for that engineering is not very mature yet. Embraer, which is the largest company in the aeronautics industry here, hires quite a few, but to perform things...

Sorry, I did not quite understand.

Hi all, Could you guys tell me how's the job market* for engineer physicists and engineer scientists? These majors seem very nice in terms of the range of the coursework, seeing many different parts of physics and chemistry. However, I'm quite skeptic about their career prospects. I see...

Thanks for the thoughtful answer, Dr.D. It's really helpful. Mechanics is my favourite subject in high school physics, while electrodynamics is not. So that's a big warning already, I believe.

By the way, I might be saying really rubbish things here. It's a complete lame person point of view.

I see. I would like to seize the moment to clarify some doubts, if that's okay? I'm starting engineering next year, but I haven't quite made up my mind on what branch. I'm much more inclined in taste to study Mechanical, but I feel that technological progress is really happening in electronics...

@Dr.D If you could, would you go back and switch your major to EE? (I'm assuming you're an ME).

Hey, thank you guys for the answers. :smile: I wonder because I see mechanical engineers specialising in mechatronics, but wouldn't that require a reasonable knowledge of electronics?

Hi all, I have in mind that an engineering project tends to be quite "integrated", as in, it envolves different engineers. So, for instance, in order to build an aircraft, you need not only a mechanical engineer, but also an EE, Materials, managers, etc etc. So lots of teamwork. However, I'd...

Sorry @rootone I think I incurred in a miscommunication when I said "never experienced fever". I meant to say that he claimed his temperature never raised to the value in which it's medically considered as fever. So everytime he got sick (a cold, pneumonia, dog bite, post-surgery complications)...

Hi all, I'd like to know if it's phisiologically possible for a human being to be unable to have fever. A related person to me claims that he has never expirienced fever in his life, even during influenza, pneumonia and other infections. Is there any similar case of immunodeficiency registered...

Cool. Are you an engineer yourself?

@gmax137 Nice, thanks for your answer, mate. For what I've read, mechanical engineers can work in control systems as well, right?

Hi all, I would like to know what's the kind of work a mechanical engineer has to perform when being part of the team encharged of building a fusion or a generic nuclear reactor. I find many areas in mechanical engineering attractive, but I believe that fusion reactors have great potential in...

Hydrogen atoms are fused inside the Sun's core, but it happens because they're subjected not only to high temperature, but also a very high pressure. In a thermonuclear fusion reactor, we cannot reproduce the pressure, but we can compensate by creating an extremely high temperature, higher than...