<p>I am currently deciding between majoring in Chemical Engineering and Chemical Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley(even though I haven't gotten accepted yet) and want to know the difference between the two. Does the Chemical Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering major include everything taught in Chemical Engineering, plus materials stuff, or is its scope more narrow and concentrating mainly on the materials aspect of Chemical Engineering?</p>
<p>I would expect that it covers the full breadth of both, given that that’s how all of the College of Engineering majors have it for their joint with MSE (note that ChemE is not in the CoE; it’s in the CoChem).</p>
<p>My only caution is that my (very limited) MSE experience was that it’s very cool theory, but absolute horror when applied. A significant body of the low-level stuff (and, presumably, the higher stuff too) comes down to analyzing structure, which for a large body of materials will be grains. Grains do not like to be analyzed, and getting them to give in requires that you put in a lot of time to series of very repetitive tasks. You may find this arrangement perfectly tolerable (I know a fairly large number of people who even liked the experience); I did not.</p>