"Engineering Hierarchy" made public!

Electrical engineering (EE) is not better than mechanical engineering (ME). It is just different. Which is better: apples, bananas, oranges, or pineapples?
The only way to answer the question is the crass way of comparing median annual salaries in $ over time. The December 2008 issue of JOM magazine just printed another article: =93Engineering Salaries: The AAES Tracks the Trends=94. Table 1 shows median salaries for various intervals in years after the B.S. degree. Results are as follows:
0 ME: 56,208; EE: 57,200 5 ME: 69,500; EE: 69,648 9to10 ME: 81,180; EE: 80,093 13to16 ME: 97,210; EE: 89,298 21to25 ME: 106,523; EE: 97,949 35+ ME: 115,521; EE:102,138
Based on these numbers EEs start out just slightly better than MEs but soon are surpassed by them. Tell her to put that in her stocking.
Also, tell her that if she refuses to rank materials engineering over electrical engineering then she can turn in all her stainless steel cookware.
Pittsburgh Pete

Dear metalengr:
... Don't you think she could move food around with a taser?
David A. Smith

Hah! ME's design the machine, the machinists build it... and the EE's work late nights for weeks getting the program debugged before the deadline... ;)
-Dana (ME) -- Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.