00:00is a mechatronics engineering major or a
00:03mechatronics engineering degree worth it
00:06that's we're going to be going over
00:07today and this was a highly requested
00:09topic this seems to be a really hot
00:12relatively new degree and first thing
00:14we're going to do is we're going to
00:16define exactly what it is so basically
00:19this one is going to be a combination of
00:21several different engineering
00:23specialties so it's kind of going to be
00:24like a mechanical engineering degree
00:26mixed with electrical computer
00:28engineering and even a little bit of
00:30software so you're basically going to be
00:32able to design really awesome robots
00:36well not exactly it's sort of like that
00:39but most of the time it's going to be
00:40used for the purposes of automating
00:42processes you're usually going to be
00:44creating operating testing and
00:46maintaining different machines that you
00:49create for the purpose of automation
00:51specifically in the manufacturing
00:53industry now this is definitely one of
00:54the more hands-on types of engineering a
00:56lot of the time they're almost
00:57considered to be technicians and
00:59engineers at the same time and this one
01:01is growing in fact it's actually bigger
01:03in other countries than it is in the
01:05united states it's just starting to you
01:06know pick up popularity here in the us
01:08but at this point there's only a few
01:09hundred people graduating with a degree
01:11every year now we're going to go ahead
01:13and talk about four different important
01:15categories with this one and the first
01:16one is going to be earning potential or
01:19salary with this degree you would expect
01:21to make around seventy thousand dollars
01:22a year starting out and 122 000 in
01:25mid-career pay and that's really good
01:27especially if you compare it to the
01:29highest paying degree and one of the
01:30lowest paying degrees you'll see that
01:32it's on the better side of things now
01:33mechatronics engineering like i said is
01:35pretty new and so you're not going to
01:37find any data on bls when it comes to
01:39this specific career however one that's
01:42really close to this would be an
01:43electrical or an electronics engineer
01:45and they make around a hundred and one
01:47thousand dollars a year or 48 dollars an
01:49hour now some careers that are similar
01:51to mechatronics at the associates level
01:53as well as the bachelor's level are
01:55going to be listed on the screen right
01:57now these are some of the ones that you
01:58might want to look into if you're
02:00interested in this now one thing i
02:01always like to point out is engineering
02:03at least historically up to this point
02:05has been the best paying type of degree
02:07meaning over a lifetime you're going to
02:09make around 3.5 million dollars with an
02:11engineering degree whereas all other
02:13types of degrees are around 2.4 million
02:16and like you saw although there's not
02:17very much data this one is definitely
02:19pretty high paying and i think it has a
02:21lot of potential especially in the near
02:23future automation is coming whether we
02:25like it or not processes are going to be
02:27streamlined and this is one of those
02:29careers that specializes in that and
02:31it's also just really cool overall i
02:33mean just being able to program robots
02:36and figuring out the interface between
02:37the electronics the mechanics part as
02:40well as the software part that is just
02:42awesome so overall i'm going to give
02:44this one a score of 9.5 out of 10. next
02:47we're going to be talking about
02:48satisfaction and this is a very
02:50subjective section it could be
02:52completely different depending on the
02:54person and the situation however
02:55according to pay scale mechatronics has
02:57a meaning score of 47 meaning 47 of
03:01people think that this degree and the
03:03careers that it leads to significantly
03:06positively impact the world now you can
03:08compare that to one that has a very high
03:10and a very low meaning score and you'll
03:11see that it's kind of on the lower side
03:14of things maybe average at best and you
03:16can sort of see this with a lot of
03:17degrees that involve automation and all
03:19that sort of thing because you're not
03:21necessarily helping all that many people
03:24you're kind of just automating a process
03:26that doesn't mean that it's not very
03:27useful and the one that i found that was
03:29closest to that in terms of a career
03:31would be an electromechanical technician
03:33and they have about a 56 meaning score
03:36so a little bit better and when you look
03:37at the job satisfaction it's around 72
03:40so that's definitely higher than average
03:42if you look at one that's really good
03:43like clergy or one that's not so good
03:45like parking lot attendant now another
03:47thing i like to mention is engineering
03:48degrees in general tend to not be
03:50regretted very often so they're actually
03:52the third least regretted type of degree
03:55only about 15 percent of people who
03:57major in engineering regret it and the
03:58main reason is because some of the best
04:00jobs require advanced level degrees now
04:03again i just want to say this is a very
04:05subjective section it could be different
04:07depending on where you live the people
04:09you work with your job your boss the
04:11career path that you decide to go down
04:13the industry that you're in there's so
04:14many different things that can affect
04:16job satisfaction and meaning so take
04:18this section with a grain of salt
04:20honestly for one person it could be one
04:21out of ten for another person it could
04:23be 10 out of 10. but overall i'm going
04:24to give this one a score of 9 out of 10.
04:27i think i'm a little bit biased here but
04:29this one just sounds awesome i mean
04:30being able to program robots sounds
04:33extremely useful and also just awesome
04:36and i have a little project planned on
04:38this channel that is sort of going to be
04:41integrating this so stay tuned for that
04:43and it was inspired by michael reeves
04:45and some of those other guys who create
04:47these awesome robots on youtube what an
04:49interesting and thought-provoking idea
04:52anyways next section is going to be
04:54demand and this is really tough for me
04:56to score just because it's such a new
04:58degree and career so you see here that
05:00electromechanical technicians uh there's
05:02around 14 600 of them and they're
05:04growing at three percent which is about
05:06as fast as average if you look at
05:08electrical and electronics engineers
05:10it's kind of the same thing 328 thousand
05:13jobs and it's growing at three percent
05:14which is average and then of course
05:16mechatronics engineering itself is not
05:18going to be on bls because it's just
05:19such a new career that they haven't
05:21updated on there yet but when you type
05:23in mechatronics engineering degree on
05:26monster.com around 482 jobs pop up which
05:29is not good either you can compare that
05:31to a degree that is known to have high
05:33demand and one that's known to have low
05:35demand and it's actually below the lower
05:37one if you look at glassdoor.com it's
05:39kind of the same thing only about 22
05:41mechatronics engineering degree jobs pop
05:43up so not great however when they survey
05:46big companies and ask them what type of
05:48college graduates are they looking to
05:50hire at the bachelor's level almost
05:52always number one is either engineering
05:54or business and so in this case for
05:57instance the survey that i'm looking at
05:58here engineering was number one
06:00businesses are constantly looking to
06:02hire people with engineering skills and
06:04a lot of the time even if they're not
06:05specifically looking for say a
06:08mechatronics engineer if they see that
06:10you graduated with that degree they're
06:11much more likely to hire you now there's
06:13many reasons for this it's because
06:15engineering degrees are pretty well
06:16respected and then also they know that
06:18people who graduate with engineering
06:20degrees tend to be really smart and hard
06:22working and a lot of the time businesses
06:24have the hiring philosophy that they are
06:26just going to hire the smartest possible
06:28people so they're going to hire smart
06:30people and then they're going to train
06:31them to do the job later on however i
06:33have to be fair the data does not look
06:35good here even though the reason for
06:37that is probably because it's just such
06:38a new degree and career nobody really
06:41knows what's going to happen in the
06:42future i'm very bullish on this career
06:45in this degree i think it's going to get
06:46bigger and bigger in the future but i
06:48can't say that for sure another thing is
06:51that degrees that aren't recognized like
06:53mechatronics engineering sometimes it
06:55takes some time for people who are
06:57hiring managers and business owners to
07:00get used to that degree so for instance
07:02a hiring manager or business owner might
07:04have hired 10 mechanical engineers
07:06before and so when they see mechatronics
07:08engineering it's sort of an unknown and
07:10so instead of just taking a chance and
07:11trying to figure you know how whether
07:13mechatronics engineers are good they're
07:15probably just going to hire another
07:16mechanical engineer it's almost like
07:18having real estate within business
07:20owners and hiring managers brain and so
07:23in many cases depending on what career
07:25you're going for it might be a safe bet
07:27for you to just get a mechanical or
07:29electrical engineering degree instead so
07:32overall when it comes to demand i'm
07:33gonna give this one a seven out of ten
07:36but again ten years from now maybe it'll
07:38be a nine out of ten or maybe it'll be a
07:40five out of ten who knows next we're
07:42going to be talking about x factors
07:44which is anything that's important that
07:45i didn't go over in the other sections
07:47so i mentioned before the engineering
07:49degrees over a lifetime make more than
07:51any other type of degree at least up to
07:52this point around 3.5 million versus 2.4
07:56but another thing that i like to point
07:57out is engineering degrees make really
07:59good money all across the board no
08:01matter what career path they end up
08:03going down even totally unrelated career
08:06paths like art and legal services
08:08engineering degrees are making over 3
08:10million dollars over a lifetime which is
08:12much higher than the average of 2.3 and
08:151.8 now there's a lot of speculation
08:17about what the reason for this is you
08:19know maybe engineering degree graduates
08:21are just really smart and they would
08:22have made a lot of money no matter what
08:24they did even if they dropped out of
08:25high school or maybe it has a little bit
08:27to do with the practical problem solving
08:29skills that you learn as an engineer who
08:31really knows nobody really knows i think
08:33it has a little bit to do with both now
08:35when it comes to skills of course
08:37mechatronics engineering isn't going to
08:38be listed here on ziprecruiter but
08:40something that was pretty similar would
08:42be electromechanics and that ranked 58
08:45out of 100 and if you compare that to
08:47the highest rank skill of software
08:49engineering and the lowest ranked skill
08:51of i believe was sewing industrial
08:53sewing you'll see that it's kind of in
08:55the middle or maybe even higher side of
08:57things but again this might not be a
08:58fair comparison because electromechanics
09:00is not the same thing as mechatronics
09:02and i'd say mechatronics is likely going
09:04to rank higher when they finally do get
09:06it on the skill index now when it comes
09:08to the likelihood that something will be
09:10automated mechanical engineers for
09:12instance have a 1.1 chance of being
09:14automated so i would assume that
09:16mechatronics is probably going to be the
09:18one doing the automating not being
09:21automated itself and when it comes to
09:23outsourcing i don't think this is a
09:24career that you're going to have to
09:25worry too much about being outsourced
09:27because you're going to have to be there
09:29using your hands in person speaking with
09:31people you know using your communication
09:34skills leadership skills are probably
09:36going to come in handy as well so i
09:37highly doubt that this one will be
09:39outsourced because of the combination of
09:41you know practical hard skills as well
09:43as soft skills that you'll have to learn
09:44in order to be a successful mechatronic
09:47engineer and one of the cool things
09:48about engineering is is the number one
09:50degree that creates the most
09:51millionaires and billionaires and it's
09:54very tough so be ready for that but if
09:56you can tough it out it's extremely
09:58rewarding and i also think that
09:59engineering degrees are relatively
10:01flexible and well respected so if you
10:03get an engineering degree thinking
10:04you're going to become a mechatronics
10:06engineer and then things don't work out
10:08chances are you'll be able to pivot over
10:11to something else relatively easily that
10:13will also be well paying and hopefully
10:15something that you enjoy so overall i'm
10:17going to give this one a score of 8.5
10:19out of 10 when it comes to x factors so
10:21when you add all those up and divided by
10:234 you're going to see that it has an
10:25overall score of 8.5 out of 10. that's
10:28excellent this is definitely a great
10:30option if you're the right person i will
10:32say that this one was hard to research
10:34for just because it's so new i think
10:36it's actually more popular in some other
10:39countries than it is here so keep that
10:41in mind but if i had to bet on this one
10:43i'd say it's definitely going to take
10:45off within the next 10 to 15 years now
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