<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I would like to know about the chemical engineering department. Current students, please tell me how is this subject. Is the teaching good. Is it very difficult. I am interested. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>right now I'm taking intro to chem engineering, and so far it's pretty boring, as I expected. all introduction courses are pretty dense material like learning about flow rates and continuous processes. the teacher's pretty chill, although he's pretty harsh on the homework. about 1/3 of the grade comes from group work, like labs and homework. you have to take responsibility for a lot the work. you'd have to take chemistry with it, but if you did well on the ap, then you can take some other science course, most likely physics for engineers. the material's not very hard, but I have a test next week so I can tell you after it's over lol. it's not hard if you read the book and do the homework.</p>
<p>About half of my friends in Materials Science at CMU came in thinking they were going to do ChemE. They took the ChemE intro, felt it sucked, then took MSE and realized it was exactly what they were interested in.</p>
<p>So, yeah, you should give MSE a look, it's pretty much the best major ever.</p>
<p>Thanks for those views.
I will look into MSE also. hat about other guys. Can you give me some inputs on this subject of chem engg?</p>
<p>by the way how did the test go Atochansu</p>
<p>Eh, the test was extremely easy. Open book and 3 hours. I had this one problem that took me like 40 minutes to do because of confusing wording, but I managed to finish it in a bit less than 2 hours. There's no curve in the class, so what you get is what you end up with. If everyone get's 85's or above, they all get an A. =)</p>
<p>Oh was it that long? But I am glad that you did well. 2 hrs. Thats a lot. Is it someting like AP? I am still on Chemical engineering. Thanks for those inputs.. It gives me a relief that there is no curve.</p>
<p>So how hard is it to get into CMU for Chem E?
i have a 770 in the SAT II and a 5 on the AP is that good enough?</p>
<p>Having graduated from CMU in ChemE, let me offer my opinion. I took both intro to ChemE and MatSci as a freshman, and chose ChemE because I felt employment opportunities would be more diverse and interesting, although I enjoyed the MatSci subject matter a lot too. It’s definitely challenging…I recall a test in fluid mechanics where Cs and Ds ended up being curved up to Bs, but I felt the course material got better and better as a junior and senior, once I had slogged through all the general engineering coursework. </p>
<p>I graduated with honors, probably in the middle of my class, and got 5 very good job offers. Though take this with a grain of salt, as it was in 2007, before the recession. But I’m sure things are looking up.</p>
<p>Did you take intro MSE in the fall or spring? We might have been in the same class. :p</p>