<p>what is so unique about the Duke Engineering School?</p>
<p>Nothing except BME. BME is the best except for JHU, but the rest of Duke's engineering programs aren't nearly as good. I've heard ~75% of Pratties are BME, but I haven't seen official #'s.</p>
<p>I think it's closer to 50% BME.</p>
<p>Can you do a double major with the CAS? such as EE and poli sci?</p>
<p>Yes, definitely. You have to apply and be admitted to Pratt, but you can double major in Pratt and Trinity.</p>
<p>It's close to 75% in the current freshman class. Other engineering majors have a fair amount of respect too because businesses appreciate Duke's different approach to engineering - where you are required to take other courses than simply science/math and where it's more theoretical, logical thinking then all hands on.</p>
<p>1) A huge brand-new engineering facility
2) A helicopter
3) A challenging but useful freshman course (EGR53L-basically Matlab)
4) This little cafe coffee shop called Twinnie's in the new Egr. facility
5) Pratt Fellows-The ability to do research with a professor when you are an upperclassmen
6) Well-rounded classmates
I'm not in BME, the other egr departments are adequate, but Duke's medical/biology studies are obviously notable.</p>
<p>The Class of 2009 is currently at 55% BME; those numbers change as people figure out what department they actually want to join. BME is a great department, and you certainly get awesome opportunities coming out of it, but the other departments provide those opportunities as well. A lot of folks figure out early that the medical side wasn't really their bag and switch, usually into Mechanical (for people who started thinking biomechanics) or Electrical (for those who started thinking electrobiology) though some go Civil as well.</p>
<p>That's sounds really interesting. I wonder if you can go study electrobiology and/or biomechanics in Trinity? </p>
<p>A question for all the engineers- what pre-reqs are there for taking an upper level engineering class? I want to take a couple civil/env. engineering classes, but they don't seem to have well-defined pre-reqs.</p>
<p>Depends on the class, of course, but generally there are Math pre-reqs for the intermediate level courses and engineering pre-reqs for the upper level courses. For example, to take
CE 124L - Environmental Engineering, you need to have
CE 122L - Fluid Mechanics, which has a co-req of
EGR 123L - Dynamics, which requires both
EGR 75L (Mechanics of Solids) and
MTH 103 (Intermediate Calculus {Calc III})
which...you get the idea :) In rare cases there are engineering classes without a pre-req chain (architecture requires junior or senior standing and permission of the instructor) but generally, upper level classes are so dependent upon earlier classes that you cannot just jump in and take one.</p>
<p>That stinks. Thanks a lot for the info, though.</p>