do mechanical engineers still have a place amidst  computer and tronics and all other kinds of engineers?
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Hell yes mechanical engineers are still needed.  Someone still has to translate what gets done w/ CAD for example and build it.  Some has to design and build the new equipment needed to build and repair our new creations.  I don't think they will ever be out of a job.
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I live right near Hunstville and currently have a job here.  Just look into some engineering field that would best suit your skills... engineering's all over the place here.  The baby boomers are getting old, so people are now starting to retire.  And there aren't as many engineering students coming out of college since you don't have a communist scare like you did back in the 50's, 60's, and 70's.  That means that there should be plenty of jobs here.  Just keep looking... you'll find one soon!
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All of the engineering disciplines are employed by NASA.  I would guess that the most common is the Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineers.  But there are Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, Electrical, and other engineers are a vital part of the space program.
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mechanical engineering \nmore specifically mechatronics\nit is a combination of mechanical engineering and electronics.\nfor the designing part special short courses has to be taken but it would be easy to take after mechanical engg.
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Engineering uses a lot of mathematical procedures - and with some physics background too i would have thought with a short training period you would have been an ideal candidate.\n\nI am a maths graduate and my husband an engineering graduate and there are always takers for people with those kinds of qualifications. (beats BA 'leisure studies' dont you think?)
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Yes my brother is a mechanical engineer.  You can find work in almost every state.
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I'm a recently retired Director of Engineering of a large Aerospace company.  All areas of business have their ups and their downs.  On up cycles we couldn't find enough good engineers.  On down cycles we had to lay-off plenty...as much as 35% of the engineering workforce.  However, those that were let go usually found another job within a month or so.  I don't recall many who remained unemployed for too long.  \n\nWe live in a highly technical world, and technology is advancing everyday.  I highly recommend engineering.  The one area that might be a little shakey is computer software engineering.  There is a trend to offload this type of engineering to India, Mexico, Russia etc because of their low labor rates.
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Mechanical engineers research, design and develop machinery and systems for heating, ventilating and air conditioning, power generation, transportation, processing and manufacturing. They also perform duties related to the evaluation, installation, operation and maintenance of mechanical systems. Mechanical engineers are employed by consulting firms, by power-generating utilities and in a wide range of manufacturing, processing and transportation industries, or they may be self-employed
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Well, they're very different from each other.  Maybe you should look at practical stuff, like nursing involves shift work, you will earn less as a nurse, you will probably have to do some pretty gross things as a nurse.  None of this applies to mechanical engineering.  Both careers help people, but in completely different ways.  Nursing attracts very special people who are more concerned with helping others, than in earning money or having a lot of free time for their families.
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Mechanical engineering is very wide field. \nJust to give you an Idea;-\n\nDesign a product say  hair pin. Mech engineer makes a drawin g  showing how it will look in three dimension. determine if it will function as intended,  send it into manufacturing  area where if there is any problem, then redesign so manufacring problem can be solved. he also deals materials, to determine if the material use will stand up in the  real life. Also he thinks of cost aspect to make it affordabls, and designs accordingly.\n\nDesigning a system. Let us say  AC system. Mech engr has to know what machine,how big or small, with what capacity,and feature will be required. Then me makes a layout to determine the proper arrangement of machine, ducts, outlets, etc and work with electrical engineer to make sure  that system will without  problems.\n\nThis very small part of engineering.You need to make calculations  to determine requirements.
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mechanical equipment (pumps, compressors, engines, gas turbines, steam turbines ) design and operation\n\nhydraulics, piping design, heat transfer, pressure vessel and heat exchanger design, vibration analsis, acoustics, welding and fabrication, process (chemical etc.) system design and operation, safety engineering, reliability engineering, HVAC systems, project engineering, project management, cost estimating, cost control.\n\nThese are some of the areas where I have used my mechanical engineering degree. I sure there are others that can add quite a few more usages for a mechanical engineer.
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Focusing on electromechanical engineering is the latest trends in mechanical field.
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Mechantronics Engineering is the combination of electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.  I took a mechatronics class in college and it was pretty cool.  We designed and built robots that were programmed to hit hockey pucks through a goal.  Also for my senior design project we used our mechatronics knowledge to design an autonomous vaccum cleaner (early version of the Roomba).
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there r so many of them computer sciences & engineering, electrical engineering , electronics engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, metallurgy, aero-space engineering ,Bio technology,civil engineering, Agricultural and food engineering,mining,ocean engineering and naval architecture, cryogenic engineering, production and industrial engineering, textile technology, biochemical engineering, earth sciences, reliability engineering,systems and control engineering and so on.
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As a Mechanical Engineering student in the 60's I had to take several Civil Engineering courses including land surveying.  You may be able to have your land surveying questions answered in this engineering forum.  Good luck.  Incidentaly, engineering was originally divided into Civil Engineering and Military Engineering for obvious reasons of application.  As science advanced, specialties were added such as mechanical, electrical, chemical and aeronautic engineering.  There are still Civil Engineers who specialize in large structures and earth moving and Military Engineer such as West Point graduates.  Surveying is still a part of Civil Engineering.
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mechanical or electronic?
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Mechanical engineering will be huge relative to energy efficiency.  There are already too many MBAs in the world and the rest of the world will supply cheap software support for the next several generations.