ASounds like Control Systems or Robotics. I'm currently pursuing such a career. I'm a mechanical engineering senior about to go for my masters in mechanical engineering but I'm focusing on robotics by taking mechanical engineering courses in dynamics and electrical/computer systems courses in robotics. As a mechanical engineer, it is required that I take electronics and computer systems courses and I was able to take 2 unrestricted concentration electives my senior year which (if I had chosen to) could have been from the electrical engineering curriculum.So it's up to you if you want to go electrical engineering and dabble in mechanical, you can. If you want to do mechanical engineering and dabble in electrical, you can, although I think that's easier than the other. But it definitely seems like control systems / robotics / mechatronics is the way to go.

AGo for a bachelors degree, an associate degree just isn't competitive enough. Electrical engineering deals with electrical power and distribution systems in residential and industrial settings. Mechanical engineering deals with assemblies that move in a mechanical fashion. It can be as simple as designing a drive shaft to as complex as designing the motor assembly on a draw bridge.But a lot of the true complex engineering jobs require a Ph.D

AAs a manager that hires both, I'd never hire someone that did it as plainly as that. I'd assume that they were either indecisive or mediocre at both. Better to write/submit your own major to the department and rock with that. Robotics Engineering comes to mind. Automation Engineering. Or go all Disneyland if you dare and call it Imagineering!Look on Craigslist.com. Compare your skills to a Mechanical Engineer job posting. Now an EE. How do you rate? I'd also plan to make SURE you get a summer internship somewhere (specifically for you ,but in general as well). Good luck

Ayou won't know until you try one!

AContact the school for their advice and information./

ANope. With no work experience this would seem like a gimmick, or that you can't decide where your interest really lies. The more knowledge you gain the better, but cross-discipline training is usually gotten on the job. If you want to stay in school think about continuing in electrical for your MS. Good luck!

AElectrical fits more with "interested with computers", although computer engineering fits even more closely. Computer science (which is different, but somewhat similar to engineering) is also something else to consider.Electrical concerns itself (in super-general terms) with electronics (circuits, robotics, computer hardware, etc.) and mechanical with "building things" like cars and stuff (though not only cars, but mechanical things, things with moving parts).If you are interested in how computers work, and how to make computers do things you want by telling a computer how to do it (and not using a computer, but programming) then computer science is what you should consider, although computer science is more than simply programming, you can get that at a community college. Algorithms, mathematics, logic is what goes on there.

AI would at this time concentrate on electrical engineering./

AMechanical engineers generally build machinery or other mechanical devices (hence the name). So that includes all sorts of things, like cars, trains, industrial robots, helicopters etc. They can also sometimes be involved with fluid mechanical problems, which means that they might deal with HVAC systems or even refrigerators.Electrical engineers build electronics, so that includes a lot of things. Cell phones, mp3 players, TV's, control systems etc. In fact just about any electric device (which isn't completely basic) was probably handled at some point by an electrical engineer.They really only overlap in electromechanical situations, ie. when you have a mechanical device (like a robot) which also needs electronics.EDIT: If you wanted to design a cell phone, you would undoubtedly be headed for electrical engineering rather than mechanical.I just noticed the part about "(how they look, not how they function)". Electrical engineers actually do the 'how they function' part. It would likely be an artist of some sort which designs how the phone actually looks (ie. the phone's shape and casing).

AMechanical is mostly about physical components, materials, motion, tolerances, CG, inertia, thermal, vibration, and computer aided design of machines.Electrical has to do with the electron, current, conductors, circuits, components, board design, applications, power distributionComputer engineering is about the hardware in digital equipment, firmware, and a lot of programs.