What are some other career paths that mechanical engineers take?
Many mechanical engineers opt to continue their educations and earn Masters and PhDs in engineering. Those degrees prepare them for research careers in industry or at a university. However, with the general educational background offered by the mechanical engineering curriculum and the rigorous analytical skills acquired during that training, many of our students find careers in a wide range of professional disciplines. Those areas include intellectual property law, medicine, financial markets and consulting. Do mechanical engineers move into management positions? As I said earlier, by virtue of our students’ broad-based education, they naturally make effective leaders. They understand the overall view of projects and have sufficient mastery of engineering principles from all disciplines to supervise such projects. Historically, mechanical engineers have been industry leaders in the widest range of businesses. And I should note that the president of NJIT, Robert Altenkirch, has a mecha
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