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danny_91
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Hello fellow PF members,
Some background about me: I am currently a senior (actually is my 6th year in college) in Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University. I am on track and will be graduating next summer. Given how long I have been in college, I would want to go straight to work already. However, I have not had any internship experience yet and since I came from a community college, I have not had any engineering club involvement either. So, I don't have any real experience aside from being a NASA Aerospace Scholars once and being a T.A. for Statics & Dynamics.
1) Should I continue to get my Master's? My professor suggested me to continue to get my Masters because it would be very useful and I would be more specialized and will have more chances in the job market.
2) If I decide to get my Master's, what should I focus/specialize on?
I really like Math (I have a Minors in Math) so I have seen lots of Ordinary and Partial Diff EQs, Complex Analysis. So I want to get into a computational field like being an analyst doing numerical simulation or being a test engineer doing data analysis.
Out of all the topics I have seen, I am really interested in Dynamics and especially in Vibrations. I have thought about going into Robotics & Controls to see more of Dynamics but I am not sure if I will really like robots (I like cars and aircrafts more). Mechanics of Materials has come through my thought as well but I did not learn much from the instructor who taught that course so I might be biased. The relationship between MoM and Vibrations is interesting too. What would I do if I specialize in this area? Finite Element Analysis, perhaps?
Thermodynamics/Fluids/Heat Transfer are also very interesting and they really make sense for me. Heat Transfer seems to be really challenging and that's why I like it, same as Dynamics. I know there is Computational Fluid Dynamics which I have heard is demanding. However, these courses really take up a lot of time and efforts to understand what is going on. Every grad student in Thermal Fluids at my school seems to have no life, which is what I'm afraid.
I left out Design and Materials Science because I don't really like those classes. In those classes, I am given some equations most of the time without really understanding where they come from.
I am sorry for posting such a long post. I hope somebody will read this up and possibly help me to answer these lingering questions. I especially am looking for someone who has been in this situation or someone in the field who knows what it is like when you work out there since I have no clue what it will be like yet.
Thanks :)
Some background about me: I am currently a senior (actually is my 6th year in college) in Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University. I am on track and will be graduating next summer. Given how long I have been in college, I would want to go straight to work already. However, I have not had any internship experience yet and since I came from a community college, I have not had any engineering club involvement either. So, I don't have any real experience aside from being a NASA Aerospace Scholars once and being a T.A. for Statics & Dynamics.
1) Should I continue to get my Master's? My professor suggested me to continue to get my Masters because it would be very useful and I would be more specialized and will have more chances in the job market.
2) If I decide to get my Master's, what should I focus/specialize on?
I really like Math (I have a Minors in Math) so I have seen lots of Ordinary and Partial Diff EQs, Complex Analysis. So I want to get into a computational field like being an analyst doing numerical simulation or being a test engineer doing data analysis.
Out of all the topics I have seen, I am really interested in Dynamics and especially in Vibrations. I have thought about going into Robotics & Controls to see more of Dynamics but I am not sure if I will really like robots (I like cars and aircrafts more). Mechanics of Materials has come through my thought as well but I did not learn much from the instructor who taught that course so I might be biased. The relationship between MoM and Vibrations is interesting too. What would I do if I specialize in this area? Finite Element Analysis, perhaps?
Thermodynamics/Fluids/Heat Transfer are also very interesting and they really make sense for me. Heat Transfer seems to be really challenging and that's why I like it, same as Dynamics. I know there is Computational Fluid Dynamics which I have heard is demanding. However, these courses really take up a lot of time and efforts to understand what is going on. Every grad student in Thermal Fluids at my school seems to have no life, which is what I'm afraid.
I left out Design and Materials Science because I don't really like those classes. In those classes, I am given some equations most of the time without really understanding where they come from.
I am sorry for posting such a long post. I hope somebody will read this up and possibly help me to answer these lingering questions. I especially am looking for someone who has been in this situation or someone in the field who knows what it is like when you work out there since I have no clue what it will be like yet.
Thanks :)