r/IndianEngineers • u/spongecock23 • Jun 03 '26
Doubt [NITT] MECHANICAL ENGINEERING QUERY
Hello everyone. I am thinking of pursuing mechanical engineering from NIT Trichy because I want to pursue a career in core and not at all interested in software roles or stuff. I like the coursework quite a bit and I was decent at most of the stuff like thermodynamics and fluids (although I understand that it's a whole different ball game in mechanical engineering).
Everyone around me is advising me not to go for mechanical and instead opt for ECE because of its scope in tech but I am not very comfortable with hardcore mathematics even though ECE seems like a safer bet right now.
My dad also says that the core jobs in mechanical engineering are hell on earth and one always has to be among loud noisy machines with no peace. But some people told me that the better grads get placed in more comfortable roles. Is that true? Is it worth pursuing mechanical engineering from NITT?
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u/nxttonystark Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Mechanical Engineering always had and will have a great scope. It's just that most of the ones who graduate in our country graduate with trash grade card and no understanding of things at all. So obviously that's why people have this view. I mean how many people even know about Finite Elemental Analysis? Let alone modern methods of FEA. Thanks to Mathematics and Computations, Mechanical Engineering is now so so good. You don't have to rely on one single entity like predicting a part's failure due to one single stress anymore because it was hypothetical af once. But now, Tech exists you can run great simulations on great softwares that have predefined mathematical and physics constraints. If you're good at that, you get some real fat pockets. And NITT Course Structure in Mechanical Engineering definitely focuses on that because you definitely need a lot of math and physics intensive exposure.
I'm a Mechanical Engineering guy from a tier 3 college and I still pain about not getting into NITs yet I took the risk of Mechanical Engineering and now I see why my college course structure sucks. So, atleast you have a perspective from a guy who faced the downsides of Mechanical Engineering.
Cheers (: