<p>Which engineering field does not require extensive knowledge of Chemistry and Programming.</p>
<p>=D </p>
<p>MechE? Industrial?</p>
<p>The AE degree I'm doing only has one chem class (only a little harder than high school) and one programming class (Matlab; it was hell)</p>
<p>I'm sure down the line (I'm a junior) I'll need to know more programming, but we do a lot of group projects so if it's not your strength, it's ok. I would look at the course curriculum for different schools. (they post it online)</p>
<p>But, don't pick a degree solely on liking or not liking certain classes--it's more what you can do with it after college. I really don't like the design part of engineering, but am interested in research and safety testing, etc.</p>
<p>so ME and AE hmm cool thanks</p>
<p>''extensive knowledge of Chemistry and Programming''</p>
<p>Well IE doesn't need Chem.
But for Programming, its a yes/no thing.</p>
<p>It depends what you mean by chem. Chemical engineering deals with chemistry but in a different capacity than what you're used to. You wont be balancing reactions and stuff like that but you will be doing a lot of thermodynamics and numerical simulations. Mech E does also deal with quite a bit of thermodynamics but to a lesser extent. They also have some of the numeric simulations going on. </p>
<p>So what I'm trying to say is that you wont be doing much of the highschool type chemistry in engineering at all.</p>
<p>You will probably be programming at some point, no matter what you major in. You won't be writing low-level C code, but you'll probably have to do some Matlab scripts to crunch data eventually. Programming is a pretty common skill among all engineers, and you need to at least know the very basics (operators, variables, functions, conditionals, and loops).</p>
<p>Chemistry isn't as common a skillset, although it has applications to a lot of engineering fields. As long as you're not a chem engineer, or POSSIBLY a biomedical engineer, you won't have tons of contact with chem. That's my impression, at least.</p>
<p>"operators, variables, functions, conditionals, and loops"</p>
<p>hehe i did that in java</p>
<p>You won't be able to avoid programming or chemistry classes in any engineering major because these are usually core curriculum courses. In the professional field, civil engineering probably would use those classes the least. Mechanical engineers do use programming sometimes though not too often (depends on what area of mechanical you want to go into).</p>
<p>Industrial does in fact require programming with C++ and CNC, but at most engineering schools, you're going to have to take some prgramming course in order to graduate, since it's a core course.</p>