mechanical engineers collaborate with engineers from all other disciplines.  you may work with electrical engineers on a new generation of computers, civil engineers to create earthquake-resistant buildings, or chemical engineers to advance environmental clean-up.  your skills will be some of the broadest and most adaptable in the engineering profession.

in the broadest terms, mechanical engineering is concerned with the conversion, transmission, and use of energy.  of the four basic forms of energy - thermal, mechanical, chemical and electromagnetic - the mechanical engineer is is primarily concerned with thermal and mechanical energy.  these "tracks" of mechanical engineering - thermal sciences and mechanics - make mechanical engineering one of the most diverse fields of engineering, with a tremendously wide variety of career opportunities.