<p>I never took engineering courses like statics, circuits, etc, but now that I'm wrapping up my BS in applied math, I'm getting interested in environmental or mechanical engineering. Is it common for people to get a BS in math and MS in engineering? Do you typically have to do some catch up work to get to the graduate level, or can you enroll directly in a masters program?</p>
<p>You might have to do some prerequisite work, but if it’s something you want to get into, go for it. You’ll have a leg up at the mathy parts…</p>
<p>bumpity bump</p>
<p>I know for the graduate CS program at my institution, they admit people with different undergrad majors, but require a certain amount of basic coursework that must be taken remedially if necessary. I imagine it is similar across the board. Your application will probably be stronger if you don’t need such courses. That’s common sense to me, anyway.</p>
<p>I have a B.S. in Applied (well actually computational) Mathematics and a M.S. in Engineering. As far as the undergrad math-to-grad engineering path, it depends mainly on two things…</p>
<p>1) Which graduate engineering program you select
2) Does that program REQUIRE that your B.S. degree is in engineering (ABET certified too).</p>
<p>Some schools are sticklers on that and some are not. Take Purdue for instance. Purdue will give you a M.S. degree (no major designated) if you complete the graduate engineering program but WERE NOT an undergraduate engineering major. They award the M.S.E (master of science in engineering) ONLY to students who hold an engineering degree.</p>
<p>Usually Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering and Software Engineering will allow math majors into graduate engineering programs without too much hassle. The other engineering fields (for the most part) will make you take remedial engineering courses.</p>
<p>OP, how do you even know you want to do engineering if you haven’t taken any classes in it?</p>
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<p>That’s a big point (probably why you made it #1, eh 
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<p>A BS in Mathematics that applies to a math-intensive subfield (e.g. Operations Research, Control Theory, etc.) will be much more attractive than a BS in Mathematics that applies for a general field (e.g. Electrical Engineering or Industrial Engineering).</p>
<p>What G.P.Burdell said is also very true.</p>
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<li><p>Princeton and Cornell actually have Master of Engineering programs (Princeton also give the thesis-required M.S. Engineering) that are solely dedicated to Operations Research. </p></li>
<li><p>Oklahoma State U (I know, why I am throwing them in same paragraph with Cornell/Princeton) has a M.S. in Control Systems Engineering.</p></li>
<li><p>Stanford has a M.S. in Mathematical Engineering.</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia’s M.S. in Management Systems Engineering program is made up of mostly operations research courses.</p></li>
<li><p>Just about any graduate “Engineering Management” program will accept math majors</p></li>
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<p>Also, any graduate program in Computational Engineering will probably take math majors who have an emphasis in computational or discrete mathematics…basically courses in:</p>
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<li>Combinatorics</li>
<li>Graph Theory</li>
<li>Numerical Analysis</li>
<li>Optimization/Operations Research</li>
<li>Advanced Linear Algebra where the course has some vector studies</li>
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<p>It depends on what field–even within electrical engineering there are fields (communications, control theory, signal processing) that are basically mathematics on steroids.</p>