Recent content by spinnaz

Nope. Too many losses, would introduce errors on the order of 50% or more.

Do not learn FORTRAN, it may have been applicable a few decades ago, but not now.

For your this reason alone you should be majoring in the field which interests you. In this economy and industry, you WILL face extremely heavy age discrimination from employers. No employer will want to take on and train an employee, fresh out of school, who is less than 10 years away from...

Sadly in response to the OP, Kevin. He expressed a desire to obtain an engineering job with a physics education; it is a sad situation that his current skills do not match the desired position.

Mechanical engineers are quite substantially introduced to fluid mechanics through their coursework. If anything, MEs don't cover gas dynamics as extensively as aeros, but they have a very solid knowledge of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

It is possible to get -some- engineering jobs with a physics degree, but quite difficult. The area of engineering you're trying to access with the physics degree makes a huge difference. It would be less difficult to break into some areas of EE (electrical power and signals, for example)...

Vociferous has it right. To employers, subsequent majors make a candidate marginally better, but not much so; unless the candidate can market it and demonstrate how the second major will contribute to the job as stated in the description. On the same track, employers almost universally ignore...

Mechanical Engineering would provide an excellent background to the study of biomechanics and prosthetics. MEs deal with thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mechanics of materials, and mechatronics; all extremely applicable to your area of interest. In fact, at my old school, most...

Based on your interests, neither Electrical or Chemical engineering would suit you very well. EE and ChE have very little to do with the applications and sciences you described. Cars and refrigeration would fall under the domain of Mechanical Engineering. Chemical engineering deals mainly...

Kalrag, You can study Mechanical Engineering if you want but be aware that it will be extremely difficult for you to get a job designing weapons. You'll first need to graduate with very high marks and do your time either getting an advanced degree (Masters' or PhD) or working in non weapons...

Honestly, don't get caught up in semantics and draw an absolute distinction between ME and EE. Mechatronics and controls are fundamentally interdisciplinary fields. Therefore ME and EE can both claim equal stake to them.

Mechanical engineers can involve themselves in nearly all aspects of hydraulic design that you have described. Most of this knowledge is acquired "on the job" in either case; it is not typically material that is picked up in school. In this situation, the degree you hold doesn't matter as...

You may face age discrimination. This is a sad but real fact of life in most technical industries.