Chemical Engineering 18 Credit Hours?

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<p>I will be going into my sophomore year in ChemE and I am currently debating on taking 18 or 15 credit hours. I am trying to free up my schedule for later. Would these courses be manageable to take in one year?</p>

<p>Fluid Mechanics
Biological Science for Engineers
Thermodynamics 1
Operations Management (Business)
Theory of Organization and Management (Business)
History of Ancient Rome</p>

<p>I think it might be manageable since three of the classes are non-engineering... I'm not sure about the difficulty of Fluids or Thermo though. The Bio Science class isn't supposed to be very difficult. Any advice? Also, the reason I was looking at just doing 15 hours is because I will be also doing undergraduate research...</p>

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<p>You could sign up for all of that. If it looks like the workload is too much, you can drop one.</p>

<p>Pay attention to whether the courses have labs or large term projects (the latter includes non-engineering courses). Such courses can be significantly more work than courses without, even if the material is not difficult.</p>

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<p>-six courses seem a bit much, however it does fall within the 18 credit hours that are typically the max for Engineers.</p>

<p>-the last 3 courses listed seem to be easier courses, which should help</p>

<p>-typically Thermo and Fluid Mechanics will be your 2 toughest courses in ChE</p>

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<p>This is definitely doable. but like ucbalumnus said, you should definitely find out more from your upperclassmen. Some professors may give projects every few weeks that can eat up your sleeping hours.</p>

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<p>Probably doable without the research. With the undergrad research it may be dicey.</p>

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<p>Wow, that looks really challenging to me. Fluids and Thermo were two of my hardest courses. I wasn’t doing any outside work, either. That schedule would have been too much for me, but you could always give it a try and see how it goes.</p>

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<p>I’m just going to stick with 15. Thanks for the advice everyone. I would rather have time to do research than to stack on another class…</p>

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<p>Salve, by the way, I see that you are combining Business type classes with your ChE major. That is a well rounded deadly combination that should help you out tremendously in the future should you eventually want to pursue something on the business side of things…</p>

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<p>3 of the classes are non-engineering, so yeah your schedule is certainly doable.
And business and gen-ed classes are generally really easy too.</p>

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<p>japanoko, would you recommend for ChemEs to minor in business or simply concentrate in business/take lots of classes in business?</p>