I'm a recruiter for a major government contractor.

MEs, EEs and CS/CEs are our biggest hires now.  Nuclear pretty much limits you to DOE work, Sandia National Labs, etc.

Aerospace background is always good (minor maybe?), but keep in mind 47% of our new hires this year will be EEs.  Followed by 31% CS, 13% CE, 10% ME... aero accounts for 4% of our goals this year.

Hope this helps.

Tyler

I was wondering the same...

Who is it that you work for?

Get your M.E. and focus in thermodynamics.

EE grad student here  

I have a BSME, but rarely use it - but that's my fault.  I recommmend ME as its the broadest with the most options.  I'm in the aerospace field, but could always go do HVAC, etc should I need to.

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Wow, not to complain, but those of you putting down Nukes don't have a clue what you are talking about.  I am a Nuke with 11 years in the field so far.  I won't claim to know what other fields are like, but ours is very nice.  I do know I started at a higher pay than the rest of my engineering friends (PE, ChemE, ME, EE and AE) and 10+ years later I am still making considerable more than them.  There are plenty of jobs out there for Nukes doing a wide variety of things.  You can work at a power plant, design work for reactors or cores, fuel manufacturing, spent fuel storage, waste, health physics, medical, national lab, homeland security, DOE work, Navy work, international stuff, etc. etc.  The only down side to it is you are somewhat limited in the location you can choose from, since they don't put a majority of our jobs in the middle of a big city.  Nuke is the way to go for some, but it is definitely not for everyone.

Mechanical Engineer here.  Good variety of different industries you can go in to.