[Talking about american university] It’s wierd. I’m not entirely lost as to what I wanna do. I know I want to do some kind of engineering (maybe urban affairs if I go crazy), but idk what I want to do specifically. Currently I’m tagged as Civil, but I’ve only done a couple classes exclusive to civil so I can still change it.
Honestly, I want to work in automation (i.e, making those dark factories in china that have been posted here on Lemmy [not that specifically but the same idea]) but people are not very helpful as to how likely I could do something like that or what degree I should get in relation to that.
My main 4 rn are civil, mechanical, electrical and industrial (although industrial is harder because id have to transfer universities). So anyway, just wanted to see if anyone here has any experience relating to this and wants to give any advice, and people here are usually not as judgemental as they are on reddit and this requires less commitment than scheduling an advisor appointment.Thank you in advance
What I learned through graduating (in Europe) is that if you really want to work in some specific area you’re gonna have to get a foot in the door (or however that expression goes) as soon as possible. Otherwise you’ll have to go with the flow if you want a job right after uni, and that job may be far off from the area of work you want. Your uni having no relation to that particular field of knowledge would be another great obstacle, so you might want to email professors/graduates about it. I haven’t done this myself, but I would suggest looking up (ideally local to you) companies that do stuff you’re interested in and maybe asking people in your field working there (through LinkedIn or whatever) what paths are there for a newbie. If you like something in China you’d want to study in China in a region/uni related to it.
I realise this advice may not be realistic or specific at all, and honestly it sucks having to suck up to a private company (I imagine it’s much worse in Burgerland), but other than that I cannot help. Anyhow, I wish you luck, comrade.
Potentially you could learn Mandarin and apply to a chinese uni - there are several engineering degrees that will lead to work in robotics and AI. It will be way cheaper than the US and you will have much better future prospects of actually working in the discipline of your preference. It doesn’t even have to be a top 10 uni though I would still check career prospects of any given university. You may even want to ask that if you did a year in the US at grad level would those credits be transferrable over (though this would be a more expensive way to do this).
If you wanted a roundabout way of doing the above is to network by interning at a robotics company (eg Japanese such as Fanuc or Kawasaki) as someone else metnioned but again you may want to aim for Chinese industry in your horizon.
