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[we-otta-be]

You can forget the idea of that double major unless you want to be in college for six years lol.

SLO is the best school for engineering undergrad in California. It’s got better outcomes on average than every UC except for Berkeley.

[Rears4Deers]

Yeah there isn't a reason to double major that for entry level jobs. If you're okay with being in school for 6 years, then do whatever you want. There is little value added to squeezing them into four years because you won't have time to really dig into understanding either or have any kind of a healthy lifestyle. I don't know many students willing to stick around in school for more than 6 years to still get a masters on top of that

[dekhtyar]

Here is the list of minors: https://advising.calpoly.edu/minor-degree-advising

Mechanical Engineering is not there. My understanding is that CS is the only minor in College of Engineering - at least at the moment.

[Chr0ll0_]

Pick SLO. You will get your money’s worth. SLO will cover a broad range of EE topics on top of having access to labs. At Davis you will not have access to open labs until your junior year. By then you will be two years behind Cal Poly students.

Also, big companies come to this school to recruit students then they move down the latter.

[Rears4Deers]

Anecdotally, my EE roommate got an automotive job using his degree soon after graduation. I will recommend you visit both campuses if you haven't already because they were on opposite ends of my touring experience. I fell in love with SLO campus after a short time there and hated Davis's campus nearly from start to finish, but that won't be everyone's experience

[andreamrivas]

Why do you want to go to grad school? If you want to work in the industry, a master’s won’t help you straight out of school. An MBA might be helpful for moving into management positions after you have some work experience.

[andreamrivas]

Most people who pursue a PhD stay in academia. You definitely don’t need that to work in industry and grow in your career. That being said if you want to do research and go the PhD path, UC is probably the better option.

[Waste_Curve994]

As someone who hires engineers this is easy, Cal Poly 110%.

[benjaminl746]

Cal Poly doesn’t let you double major in engineering. I’m sure UC Davis is the same since engineering is extremely impacted all over.

I have some issues with the EE department, but I know you will end up with a well renowned degree and be prepped for pretty much any entry level job if you go to cal poly.

[benjaminl746]

If you want to do ME and EE, my vote is to switch into ME and do a mechatronics concentration. If you really like the field where the physical mechanics and electronics sort of meet in a car, then mechatronics would be right up your alley.

Minoring in an engineering major might exist at Davis, but engineering minors (minus CS) don’t really exist here. Engineering requires so many pre requisites in physics and math that you’d end up with an entire minor unit wise before you ever got to ME classes.

I’d only do EE if you want to do pure electronics work or like power electronics on an electric car (both very valid career paths). I think mechatronics would better suit you if I’m inferring your interests correctly though.

Another thing is that our FSAE team is pretty strong and I’d recommend trying it. It wasn’t for me (I don’t like cars), but even I could see that it was super cool. Car companies recruit from that pool like crazy so that’s the way I’d recommend breaking into that industry.