Mechanical engineers can do anything. They are the generalist of engineers.
One more point I’d like to make about an engineering degree. It opens up more career opportunities that are not necessarily “engineer” jobs. There are a lot of industrial sales careers that require or stronlgy prefer an engineering degree in the field that they specialize. For instance, an electronics manufacturer may require an E&E engineering degree, a software company would prefer a "software engineering degree, a chemical manufacturer would require a chemical engineering degree, and so on. Also, there are field engineer jobs such as mine that stronlgy prefer an engineering degree. Basically I am the hands on guy that works as a representative of the manufacturer in support of cusomters for field support. We have people with engineering degrees that prefer this type of work over office work and design work. Just thought I’d point out some other options. I believe an engineering degree is one of the best 4 year degrees available. If I had it to do over again I would choose E&E or software, which is basically what I do anyway, but on the support side rather than the design side.
Great idea.