<p>Is it hard to become an Environmental Engineer?</p>
<p>You may get more responses in the engineering forum.</p>
<p>generally speaking, any engineering is difficult. However, environmental engineering is grouped with civil engineering and civil is normally considered the easiest engineering field. Note, this is a perception and perception does not necessarily match reality.</p>
<p>I can tell you this: you have to take the 3 calculus, 3 chemistry, 2 physics and I believe 2 physics with calculus.</p>
<p>So it is not picnic. At least there is no orgnic chemistry required.</p>
<p>EngineerJW are you recommending the general engeering chat? for all schools? Or does UF have their own?</p>
<p>Actually, it’s just 2 physics w/ calculus, non-calculus physics is useless for engineers.</p>
<p>ah ah thanks Jalmoreno. My son is going to go into Enviromental Engineering this fall.</p>
<p>You Engineers have all my respect. Calculas and Chemistry to me is like learning a different lanquage maybe worse?</p>
<p>I guess this is why you guys make some of the highest starting salaries coming out of school? You deserve it.</p>
<p>yeah, Engineering majors are usually super intense. Then the reward is a higher-paying starting salary than most other majors (sometimes those business/finance majors can get a lot more, but they have to crack the right parts of their industry). I think the key though is to do what you like while also being practical (and I hate the idea of working in business/on wall st.) Also, the other people I can think of getting lots of money are doctors and lawyers, who both need grad school. With a masters, I’m think an engineer can make about the same as the average attorney; however, the high-end lawyers will easily rake-in more than the engineer.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s hard. How hard it is depends on how smart you are, and how much love you have for filters. If filters just fill you up with joy, then environmental engineering is the perfect choice!</p>
<p>So it would be extremely difficult to get a 3.8?</p>
<p>It depends how smart you are. 3.5 in engineering is generally well respected. 3.8 is pretty difficult, but not impossible.</p>
<p>4.0 is damn tough.</p>
<p>3.8 could be characterized as ‘extremely difficult’.</p>
<p>you just have to take it one class at a time.</p>