Just do what you like more. Neither is more "future proof" or the "new wave". If that is the case, then Biomedical Engineering is the future...or rather ANY engineering degree applied to Biology.
I'm a BME and a MSE major ATM and i've gone through a lot of mechanics(especially for the materials part) and I have to take some upper division EE (I've had fundamental circuit theory, and currently dealing with electronics theory otherwise potentially known as the physics of semiconductors) and to be honest I enjoy the mechanics a LOT more. The EE isn't bad, and i'm doing fine...but that interest there doesn't make me jump up and down all giddy like mechanics does. Of course when both are applied to Bio I jump up and down a lot - but even with that I find looking at the change in bone strength due to metastasis a hell of a lot more interesting than cochlear implants.
So find out what you like - each field is absolutely massive, and in reality its hard to do something PRACTICAL without learning the other...
And really...don't think that you are restricted in either. As an EE you could focus on semiconductor design and you'll literally be a mechanical/chemical engineer who concerns themselves about the flow of electroncs like the flow of water, or you could focus on completely different fields like wirlesss uh...bla technology and um..lol stuff like that [see i don't take that many EE courses so i'm not fully sure]. As an MAE you could get into robotics, you could get into biomechanics (helllla awsome!), you could do MEMS which is like machines but on a micron (literally!) scale
the sky is really the limit...
but if you are really smart...you'll pick what you enjoy more, and then spend your tech electives on the other one~ I would think a person who has knowledge of mechanics AND a fair knowledge of EE (or vice versea) is really in a good position.
and for the record- I'd take MAE anyday, which is why I'm an MSE
I'm a BME and a MSE major ATM and i've gone through a lot of mechanics(especially for the materials part) and I have to take some upper division EE (I've had fundamental circuit theory, and currently dealing with electronics theory otherwise potentially known as the physics of semiconductors) and to be honest I enjoy the mechanics a LOT more. The EE isn't bad, and i'm doing fine...but that interest there doesn't make me jump up and down all giddy like mechanics does. Of course when both are applied to Bio I jump up and down a lot - but even with that I find looking at the change in bone strength due to metastasis a hell of a lot more interesting than cochlear implants.
So find out what you like - each field is absolutely massive, and in reality its hard to do something PRACTICAL without learning the other...
And really...don't think that you are restricted in either. As an EE you could focus on semiconductor design and you'll literally be a mechanical/chemical engineer who concerns themselves about the flow of electroncs like the flow of water, or you could focus on completely different fields like wirlesss uh...bla technology and um..lol stuff like that [see i don't take that many EE courses so i'm not fully sure]. As an MAE you could get into robotics, you could get into biomechanics (helllla awsome!), you could do MEMS which is like machines but on a micron (literally!) scale
the sky is really the limit...
but if you are really smart...you'll pick what you enjoy more, and then spend your tech electives on the other one~ I would think a person who has knowledge of mechanics AND a fair knowledge of EE (or vice versea) is really in a good position.
and for the record- I'd take MAE anyday, which is why I'm an MSE
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