Which engineering is most hands on?

[ice109]

forgive me i know there's tons of these types of threads but in which type will the design engineer prototype as well?

 

[fizziks]

forgive me i know there's tons of these types of threads but in which type will the design engineer prototype as well?

Probably mechanical or electrical/computer

 

[ice109]

anyone else?

 

[user101]

Electrical is a good one - you get to prototype and design circuits in the lab if you'd like, using breadboards and real parts OR use simulation software. Depends on the scneario.

 

[Bradracer18]

No doubt about this! The Agricultural Engineers are the most hands on, bar none! We do lots of labs, and have a ton of clubs/groups! And, to be honest...we are called power and machinery engineers, but we are basically a mechanical engineer(take nearly the exact same courses, but just more hands on)

 

[chroot]

Most forms of electrical and computer engineering are done solely on computers. If that's "hands-on" to you then great, but most people don't consider it so.

Civil and mechanical are generally the most hands-on.

- Warren

 

[Supercooled]

Just a general observation from a physicist working in medical device engineering: I think a lot of folks who go into engineering as career are surprised to find out that most of their time is spent doing things that are very different from what their initial idea of "engineering" is. For example, in highly regulated industries such as medical device, aerospace, military, etc. an engineer spends an enormous amount of time simply following the usually very rigid processes created by their Quality System. Lots of time is spent working on documentation and configuration control. If you come from a research background (PhD condensed matter for me) where you are used to spending your time somewhat creatively, this can be a very rude awakening.