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Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:53:32 UTC No. 16257797
Why do people here care so much about degree rankings or types? My degrees are in mechanical engineering, but what I do now in my actual job has a lot more to do with electrical engineering and chemistry and very little mechanical.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:33:03 UTC No. 16258751
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Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:31:54 UTC No. 16258818
>>16257797
It really doesn't matter, but what trips people up is thinking engineering is just making cars go vroom.
I don't know what kind of education in mechanical engineering you have, but if you work with engineers in other disciplines, then you're probably doing a lot of systems engineering. Planning a product with other engineers, doing the v-model stuff, sprints and agile project models, etc.
As a computer engineer myself, my degree only says I am an "engineer", but my education has made me able to synthesize my own circuits using FPGAs, or make basic circuits using breadboards, arduinos, and other electrical or mechanical parts. So I am trained in at least understanding what the hell electrical and mechanical engineers are doing. If you do work in a multidisciplinary business, you have to learn and know the justification of other engineers, to have a better dialogue with them among other things.
Since engineers are the modern day inventors, it has evolved into more of a social skill than the actual engineering part of the job. A product has ethical, sociological, economic, and technical implications. These are considerations businesses have to make to avoid lawsuits and ensure profit from their customers.