<p>Is industrial engineering the easiest?</p>
<p>No such major as “easy engineering”… next thread.</p>
<p>Are you serious? </p>
<p>Keyword: engineering</p>
<p>People have different strengths. Someone might find EE easier than ChemE, while others have it the other way around.</p>
<p>Oh I am asking because I read elsewhere a student said industrial eng was the easiest to get high grade,the question is very random. Thanks.</p>
<p>Rank of engineering majors from easiest to hardest per difficulty group:</p>
<p>Easiest:
Industrial
Civil
Environmental</p>
<p>Medium:
Fire Protection
Material Sciences
Mechanical</p>
<p>Hardest:
Electrical
Chemical
Computer</p>
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<p>Says who?</p>
<p>No engineering major is harder than another.</p>
<p>Wow me and my friends did this at our school and this list hits it on the head. Throw in Welding Engineering as Hard, Food Agricultural and Biological as Easy and Biomedical as Medium.</p>
<p>I’ve heard different opinions from many Engineers and Engineering students. Electrical, Chemical, Mining, Aerospace, and Welding are usually up there.</p>
<p>Maybe some of you should pick up some books in some of these “easier” or “medium” difficulty areas BEFORE posting. There are plenty of textbooks on Stochastic Processes, Nonlinear Optimization and other math/statistics areas that are part of Industrial Engineering.</p>
<p>Why would you include Fire Protection and Welding on the list? They’re not a major engineering fields. </p>
<p>Anyway, at my school I’m told Industrial is the easiest, because a large number of them are people who started as some other engineering major, couldn’t do it, and switched to Industrial, and therefore the students for that major aren’t as good as students in other majors. That’s just what I’ve been told.</p>
<p>Aerospace, Chemical/Petroleum, and Electrical are usually said to be the most difficult. Probably why they get paid the most.</p>
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<p>I will fight you to the death on that. I have never heard anyone attempt to claim that petroleum engineering is difficult. I am generally a proponent of saying no engineering major is harder than the other inherently, but if someone put a gun to my head and forced me to rank, petroleum would definitely be in my easier group.</p>
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<p>That is a logical fallacy. Different majors get paid the most because they are more in demand, not because they are harder. If that was the case, why aren’t pure mathematicians getting paid more?</p>
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<p>What about packaging science?</p>
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<p>False. Industrial engineering is the easiest.</p>
<p>This thread should be merged with <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/31382-whats-hardest-engineering-major.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/31382-whats-hardest-engineering-major.html</a></p>
<p>I would think that for a person who isn’t too technically minded or doesn’t like/have the capacity/drive to be an expert in any specific sort of engineering, industrial would be a good fit. This isn’t to say that industrial engineers are incapable of being experts on things like mech, aero, civil, etc. but it’s just their interest to learn a bit about everything and see the bigger picture. Of course, you have this ‘bigger picture’ thing everywhere, but most engineers don’t have to work with big pictures. </p>
<p>Just do what you like. And stop trying to find an easy way out, that’ll just make you a bad engineer.</p>
<p>First of all, while I cannot guarantee that it is easier, in my experience at my alma mater Industrial appears to have a slightly higher average GPA than most of the rest. Several of us were curious about the disproportionate number of IE’s admitted into TBP (which uses GPA as a prime qualifier) and whom were selected as college marshals (again, gpa based) and were able to dig up a few numbers, back in the good old days when faculty left things like that accessible on the web. I can’t get those numbers now unfortunately, but they did show that IE had a slightly higher gpa at all measured points. Bear in mind that this was on the order 0.1 gpa or so - not a big deal.</p>
<p>Second, as many have noted, any given person has talents and interests that will influence their gpa in a given major far more than the general difficulty level will. I did very well at electrical engineering, I would probably have done poorly in industrial.</p>
<p>Finally, any given major has a spread of specialties, with a corresponding spread in difficulty levels - there are areas of industrial engineering that anyone would find daunting, and there are areas of electrical that I think most people could handle without any real problems.</p>
<p>If you’re trying to take the easy road now, what will you do when you have to make hard decisions?</p>
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Even if this is true (and I’m skeptical), it’s not the whole picture, because civil and environmental engineers have the toughest exams post-college.</p>
<p>Most engineers will never have to take another engineering exam after college graduation day. But most civils and environmentals will need PE licenses, and so will have to take rigorous licensing exams as professionals (in the same way that attorneys, doctors, and CPAs do). How many of your college exams lasted for 8 hours?</p>