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What does a minor do for you?

What MINOR course should i do?

  • HI I am doing Electrical eng major. I have a number of options to chose from but i don't know which minor course will be better since i'll graduate in 2010. As you all know every year somthing new just pops up in the science world and a new faculty or course is introduce. I don't want to stick to the traditions minor courses if they are not in demand in future. What do you guys think? some of the course are listed below. My current CGPA was 3.43 but i enjoy explorering new thing and don't enjoy sitting in one place. If you get wht i meant. ;-) Aerospace Engineering Biomedical Engineering Computer engineering minor in Physics minor in Maths Mechanical Engineering and if you folk know of any interresting minor not mentioned please let me know.

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    English, journalism or Philosophy. You can be the greatest engineer in the world, but if you can not write, or explain an idea you will not be able to prove to anyone that you are the best engineer in the world. Get out of the engineering college, go to the liberal arts area for the minor or electives. I was a BSMechE and the best course I took was a debate class, it taught me to speak in public and how to structure arguments and debates. There are good engineers who probably will take a EE major and one of the minors you mention, however all the engineering managers will know how to communicate with people who are not engineers.. -luck

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I would suggest Mechanical out of those that you listed. Being a Mechanical Engineer myself, I can tell you that we are asked to do absolutely everything that any other engineer would be able to do. Before I graduated this last summer, I once co-oped as a chemical engineer, I have done electrical work, a little bit of civil engineering, and a lot more. And I know that biomedical companies are always looking for mechanicals, I interviewed at a big one around here. But personally, a business minor is REALLY good to have. It gets you into management a lot easier. If you either went for HR or finance you'd be pretty well off, though it's common for those now a days. And it also would help if you ever wanted to go entrepreneur. On another note, as a mechanical I can teach a whole host of subjects, should the job market fail. I actually know more math than my HS math teacher now. And I went to a vocational HS where they specialized in manufacturing engineering.

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computer science, learn to program. MIKE

mike

Mechanical engineering. A combination of those two gives a very very wide net of job opportunities for you after you graduate. most things that have an electrical component to it (not electronic dont get them confused) are there to drive a mechanical piece of equipment (for instance a motor drives a pump) or vice versa (a steam turbine drives a generator) the other good option would be electronics though. really you would be able to breeze through those coarses a lot easier as a lot of the stuff would overlap

somethin_fierce

yeah, check out materials science and engineering and look at designing solid state devices. The semi-conductor industry is booming right now.

fleisch

i would recommend a minor in mathematics i dont care what field of engineering you go into you will always need the math

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