I want to persue mechatronics but i am a little relucktent because of the lack of job opportunities. So i was thinking of going for mechatronics and then working in a CS job. Is it possible for a mechatrnics engineer to work as a CS engineer? How many different jobs can a mechatronic engineer do?

Hello,

Both fields have great future. And they have common areas too such as embedded systems.

Mechatronics consists of 4 different fields which are Mechanical engineering, electronics, control systems, and computer programming. For example, robotics is a Mechatronics field cause a robot if you think of it, consists of these 4 mentioned fields. Advantage of Mechatronics that you can work in any of these 4 fields on its own like you can be a mechanical engineer or control engineer. So, it gives you many career choices. For me, I’m gonna graduate this year from Mechatronics and I have intention to be an embedded SW systems engineer.

For Computer Engineering, There’s huge potential and opportunities in this huge umbrella cause from CE you can specialize in:

Embedded Systems

AI(Machine Learning)

Big data & Data Science

Software Development such as:

Mobile Apps

Web Development

Game Development

Autonomous Cars (Automotive industry as well Mechatronics Enginer)

Robotics

IOT(Internet of Things) which is a superset of embedded Systems

So, Whether you go for this or that, you won’t regret it at all because:

1- Both of them have a huge future potential.

2- There are a lot of common fields between them.

I was in the same dilemma 4 years ago and If I didn’t choose Mechatronics, I would have chosen CE

If you don’t like mechanical and control, Go for Computer Engineering.