Why did you decide to study your branch of engineering?

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I love the built environment!

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I like math so I knew I’d want to do something math related.
All the branches of engineering seemed difficult. Then someone said something about civil engineering. I didn’t know what it was. But I liked the idea of building structures. I’m not a fan of environmental, hydrology/hydraulics and don’t really care about traffic engineering, but I’ve learned to like geotechnical and construction engineering along with structures in civil engineering.

Seemingly everyone goes into mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, etc. I wanted to pick a branch that was pragmatic and in demand but was “the road less traveled” so to speak. That is why I chose optical engineering.

Chemistry was confusing and I liked the more real-world applications I could wrap my brain around! When I was making my choice it seemed mechanical was more versatile to get into a bunch of different places. I liked the options it gave me and the prospective salaries didn’t hurt either.

I wanted to do MechE to be well rounded. I started in aerospace and struggled with the classes as well as the people in the classes.

I did my PhD in traffic management because I've lived in Southern California my whole life and traffic has been a constant point of attention and contention. Felt like there was going to be an endless amount of work to do re: traffic too

I started with bioengineering because I thought I might want to be a doctor and I like biology (and mechanical seemed too hard). Then I realized no one wanted to give me an internship because they didn't want a bioengineer. So I ended up doing a dual degree with bioengineering and mechanical engineering... and then I realized I liked rockets. And, after all of that I was burnt out and didn't want to do engineering at all and studied music for a year after graduation. Now I work as an engineer at an aerospace company and I write music. Been a fun journey.

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