[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
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.