<p>Will I have to take very few credits to get Bachelors in MechE if I finish my AeroE with all the requirements fulfilled? How much longer after 4 years do you think i'll have to stay in college to get that MechE degree?</p>
<p>I say that because many of the courses in AeroE are similar to MechE, are they not?</p>
<p>I'd say another year, depending on the school cirriculum too.</p>
<p>That's not bad since you are getting another degree that you can add to your resume. Do you think it is a wise choice? Because to me it seems like you are not only adding another reason for an employer to consider you over another person but you are also broadening your field of employment opportunities.</p>
<p>Less than that year -- shouldn't be more than a semester. You could even take some of the needed courses concurrently when you're doing your Aero degree.</p>
<p>Yea I think it will be just a semester, maybe 9 or 12 credits extra.</p>
<p>If I were to go into college wanting to get a mech/aero degree--and like start out shooting for that, how much extra would it be?</p>
<p>seuferk, that depends entirely on the pace that you want to approach your coursework. I know people who took 5+ years to get their engineering degrees. If you want both degrees, in say 4 years, then you are really going to have to load up the credits- which I don't recommend doing. As I said before, getting the extra degree will probably be 9 or 12 credits, so if you go out on a 4 year track, I would say an extra semester would do. One thing I recommend if you want to get both degrees (which I do not think is really necessary to have, but that is another discussion) is start out with AE as your primary track and then pick up the additional ME credits.</p>
<p>Wow, I really wouldn't mind staying 1 more semester to get a whole another degree. Anyways... I should probably focus on AeroE first since it is still 4 years away lol. :)</p>
<p>BTW another random question...... Does anyone think it would be a bad idea to do business minor or an architecture minor since engineering generally does have a pretty hard course load? I'm interested in them but they're not terribly important to me.</p>
<p>Depends on the school. At mine, it's not possible without an additional 2 more years.</p>
<p>Getting a MechE/ASE dual degree is contigent upon the school. At my university, the ASE and ME degree might take the same classes for the first year but after that they become highly specialized after that and usually one class won't count for another's degree. For example, ASE's take Flight Mechanics and Advanced Boundary Layer while MEs will take more Material Processing or Machine Elements class. I can't imagine someone finishing both degrees (successfully) without take an extra year or more.</p>
<p>usually 1 degree requires 120 credits to graduate (some requires more) but for double degrees, u need 150 credits. That is at least a nother year unless ur willing to cram 6,7 classes / semester, which is not reccommended in engineering.</p>
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My BS required 136 hrs, I ended up with 144 :p</p>
<p>That's for semester schools only. At my quarter school we need 200+.</p>