Mechanical Engineering College’s Intelligent Manufacturing junior, currently selected several mentors from the Harbin Institute of Technology Mechanical Department, want to pick an internship first; originally chose a mentor to try to select a cutting‑edge direction in mechanics.
However, recently browsing Zhihu, saw many say that doing machine learning, vision, and similar directions in mechanics can only be for research, and if you are a master’s graduate you’ll be considered non‑technical background for employment , in the end I still chose a traditional structural position. They say that even computer‑science people doing these aren’t being hired. So I feel a bit confused, let’s discuss here.
Also paste the research directions found on the professor’s website below:
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1 The main research directions are automatic control theory and application technology in the advanced manufacturing opto‑mechatronics field, including:
Teleoperation and autonomous underwater robots (ROV and AUV) / medical robots / special mobile robots /
Read papers, consider the direction, look for internships; the major isn’t that important.
I see that this professor doesn’t have much research output, so you’ll basically have to find internships on your own; if you get an internship, that’s fine.
Actually, the above are the directions of three teachers; I checked the number of SCI papers and the h-index on Scopus, but I don’t know how high is considered high
You don’t need to aim too high; at least be diligent about publishing papers. If you want to switch to coding, lean a bit towards softer areas.
Regarding research, I looked at them; the first one isn’t great. Of the next two, the first is more on the soft side, with topics covering many of the current mainstream AI directions. The second is more serious, focusing on robotics.
Of course, doing an internship is also important; publishing papers is uncertain, while an internship is concrete. If I had to choose, I’d rather find a place where the research isn’t great but offers an internship.
, in the end I still chose a traditional structural position. They say that even computer‑science people doing these aren’t being hired. So I feel a bit confused, let’s discuss here.