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with wanted to pursue a concentration in motorsports. Many of the students leaned towards
either having no concentration or wanted to go into a biomedical field. Mechanical engineering
has many concentration besides motorsports. Some of them include, biomedical, energy,
aerospace, manufacturing, and nanotechnology. (boston) The motorsports industry also has the
lowest rate of hiring for all mechanical concentrations, because many large motorsports
companies are incredibly hard to get into. Biomedical engineering is considered one of the top 25
in demand jobs and fastest growing jobs in the U.S. and will continue to get larger, so many
students are choosing this as a concentration (campus explorer).
Many people also believe that most people are only going into the engineering field for
the money, from my research and surveys I only came across two people who said that the
money was a major reason as to why they wanted to go into an engineering field. Many students
said that their main passion in life was to help people and going into an engineering field would
help this. With companies like Engineers without Borders, Society for Women Engineers, and
American Association of Engineering Societies, there are always ongoing projects to help other
people. I also encountered students who just had a huge interest in whatever concentration that
were pursuing, whether they simply liked to put things together or find something like energy
interesting.
Finally, many people ruminate that engineers have very introverted personalities and do
nothing but sit and work, but according to Ron Smelser in How to Build Better Engineers, he
states that in his 25 years in the field of engineering he spent at least 50% of his time
communicating with others. Many engineering jobs also involve working with teams to develop
an idea. People who are extremely introverted would have trouble with this amount of
interaction. People who chose to study mechanical engineering can have all different types of
personalities, not just strictly introverts.
As many people believe these stereotypes to be true, people who chose to study
mechanical engineering are from all different walks of life, with all different passions, all
different personalities, and all different motives. The mechanical engineering community should
not be stereotyped into any category because every person who chooses to possess a career in
this field is different from one another.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30876899
http://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/publications/college-profiles/2011-profileengineering-statistics.pdf
http://www.bu.edu/me/academics/undergraduate/concentrations/
http://www.campusexplorer.com/college-advice-tips/76DB6BDB/Top-25-In-Demand-Jobs-andFastest-Growing-Occupations/