Why Major in Mechanical Engineering?
What do you need to know to make a smart career choice within engineering? It might help to tell you exactly what mechanical engineering is, or what you would most likely do for a living as a mechanical engineer. But because mechanical engineering is known as “the liberal arts of engineering,” there really isn’t a good, precise definition of mechanical engineering, and there is no way to know what you will end up doing as a mechanical engineer. Incidentally, questions like “What do mechanical (and chemical, civil, and electrical) engineers do?” are precisely the kind of questions you should be asking now, and almost certainly aren’t. According to tradition, only a few engineering students got there by studying the alternatives and concluding they were born to be engineers; a few more got there because their fathers or somebody else had the idea that they should be; a few more because someone told them that engineers make more money than anyone else; and the vast majority because Englis
