Is Mechanical Engineering difficult as compared to other engineering fields?

Suitability for girls will totally depend on the kind of girl you are. If you are one of those pretty 'I won't get my hands dirty with grease' kind of girls, then it's not for you. Because jobs generally might not be in an air conditioned cabin initially. The scope lies that many big PSUs and private manufacturing companies hire mechanical engineers. But if you can't make it through campus placements then you will have to do really well in GATE which is not that easy for all. Otherwise outside campus many end up taking IT jobs as they feel nowhere else to go. But, one thing for sure you will enjoy extra attention from boys as girls are definitely a minority in Mechanical Engineering classrooms.

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Hi, Yes, it is said to be one of the toughest branches in engineering as compared to others. Suitability for girls will totally depend on the kind of girl you are. If you are one of those pretty 'I won't get my hands dirty with grease' kind of girls, then it's not for you. Because jobs generally might not be in an air conditioned cabin initially. The scope lies that many big PSUs and private manufacturing companies hire mechanical engineers. But if you can't make it through campus placements then you will have to do really well in GATE which is not that easy for all. Otherwise outside campus many end up taking IT jobs as they feel nowhere else to go. But, one thing for sure you will enjoy extra attention from boys as girls are definitely a minority in Mechanical Engineering classrooms. All the best.

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There can't be one answer to this question. So, here is my view: Difficulty of branch depends on your interest in the subjects and your strengths and weaknesses. So, if you are passionate about machines and their working you may find mechanical interesting but if you hate these subjects from start you are ought to find these subjects difficult. Other than that, mechanical also requires high level maths like Differential Equations and Calculus for many subjects. So, if you are bad at maths again, you might feel it as difficult. But in general, most of the branches are of the same difficulty level with ECE and Mechanical being a bit more than others. One thing is sure from my personal experience which is ECE, CS and Mechanical will have hectic schedules as compared to branches like Chemical and Meta. My suggestion is that go through the syllabus of all branches and choose the one which suits you the most. Also, talk with some of the students already pursuing that branch about how is it and all. Finally, join mechanical if you are passionate about it and don't worry about the difficulty and all. All the best!

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With mechanical engineering, you need to be able to accurately predict exactly what is going to happen, along with how. Depending on where you get this degree, there will be a lot of memorization of well established mathematic rules and the like developed over the last couple of centuries. If you have difficulty memorizing difficult equations and other information, mechanical may be the hardest of them. Electrical and Computer Engineering are very, very similar for over half of the degrees. The hardest part of this overlapping portion is the fact that the math gets non linear and works in ways that is very dissimilar to what most people are used to going into university. Personally, at the time I learned it, circuit theory was the most baffling thing I had ever tried to learn. This is where I had to learn that the answer to an equation could be a completely different equation and repeating that was the only way to solve the problem. (protip- current is like water and every bounded wire has the same amount as all the others) However, once they diverge, Electrical Engineering gets even more complicated, non linear math, while Computer Engineering switches to more discrete mathematics and logic design along with coding languages and the like. So, as stated at the beginning, it depends where your strengths and weaknesses are. Electrical Engineering relies heavily on complicated nonlinear math where exact answers are difficult to come by. Mechanical Engineering moves to math that requires a large set of knowledge that you just have two know. Finally, Computer Engineering works with more discrete math and logic design requiring you to design solutions that can solve a myriad of problems, plus more language learning than the others.

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