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Yeah totally! There is so many facets to mechanical engineering that you can split into , although when you go to work at bigger corps you don’t get as much hands on with the process , you high level manage the process , startups are the way to go to get hands on with the entire cycle , designing , manufacturing, testing, prototyping etc
LOOKING AT THE SHIFT IN THE CHARACTER OF THE MACHINES, MECHATRONICS IS A BETTER CHOICE.
BEING INTO MACHINES IS SOMETHING ELSE BUT IS YOUR MATHS GOOD.
Mechanical engineering is the thing of last revolution, the sad part about this field is the slow growth. You will interact with all the generations starting from boomers.
Mechanical engineering can range widely from highly detailed and intense analysis for stress,thermal management, lubrication and wear, and fatigue and life analysis. For the most technically intense aspects, that would gravitate toward individual parts & components. At the other end of technical intensity is HVAC and energy management. To get involved with looking at whole systems, and not just individual parts, morion control and movement mechanisms in robotics and design of manufacturing/production equipment is most likely to closely align with your interests. My first job out of college was in turbomachinery design and it became obvious if you wanted to stay technical and not move into supervision and management you would likely need to become an expert or absolute guru on VERY narrow areas of technology, like turbine blades or disks. We kind of snickered at one engineer who was the guru for nuts, bolts, and fasteners but the advantage for him was that those things were used in every single model of turbine and he was the go to person for everything in that realm, If your design of more specialized individual components was successful and problem free you would probably will never hear about it use in the end products.