<p>hey cc, I am currently a jr in high school looking to major in environmental engineering.
For current environmental engineering students I would like to ask how are your studies going.
Do u have a lot or a little free time? Do u have less work than a civil engineer or is the work load equal? How is the physics enviromental engineers learn in comparsion to other engineers?
Also since I am a jr next year I am debating between taking ap environmental science and ap physics. I am considering apes because I want to be an environnmental engineer and environmental science will relate to it, but idk if I should take ap physics in order to prep myself for the physics I will combat in college.
Thank u soo much, and any reply will help</p>
<p>You will have the same amount of free time with either. You will have less than your friends in business or liberal arts majors but you still have a life. Both will require 2 semesters of introductory physics and statics/dynamics. My schools splits those some put together. You can always do civil with an emphasis in environmental if you want some of both. Upper level environmental classes will have more chemistry and civil will have more physics. I’m not sure about the AP classes. I guess see which ones will count towards your engineering degree. The physics will probably need to be calculus based to count and the environmental may count as an elective but not a major requirement.</p>
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<p>recent environmental engineering graduate here.</p>
<p>Do u have a lot or a little free time? </p>
<p>depends on how well you want to do, if you want to be at the top of the class, you will have little free time. If you want to be average or below average, you can have more free time. Also depends on how smart you are. </p>
<p>Do u have less work than a civil engineer or is the work load equal?</p>
<p>Pretty similar, i’d say we do more work. Many of our classes have a lab component while this isn’t true for civil students, at least at my school.</p>
<p>How is the physics enviromental engineers learn in comparsion to other engineers?</p>
<p>Easier, we focus more on chemistry in the upper years. That being say, we still take E&M first year and its pretty darn hard.</p>
<p>Also since I am a jr next year I am debating between taking ap environmental science and ap physics</p>
<p>In canada i don’t think this ES class exist. If you give me more info on it, i can tell you if it will be useful.</p>
<p>Entering senior/“float” year (will be earning 12 graduate credits this year)…</p>
<p>Do I have a lot of free time?</p>
<p>Not really. I don’t really mind it though, the subject matter is mostly interesting. You can spend a lot of time in “study” groups doing a lot of talking and not getting too much work done if you’re not careful.</p>
<p>Work load compared to CivE’s?</p>
<p>My program doesn’t distinguish between CivE and EviroE until grad school. It’s a top-10 program, but I don’t know if there are other purely EviroE undergrads out there. That being said, I think the work load is about the same. The key is to do what you’re interested in. If you’re spending a ton of time doing something you’re not interested in, it will feel a lot worse than if you’re actually interested in the result.</p>
<p>Physics compared to other engineering majors?</p>
<p>Well, the basic two-course physics classes are the same across majors mostly. Some statics and E&M. However, what you’ll be doing for the rest of your academic career is learning and applying physics. If you’re in civil, you’ll be more focused on the statics/dynamics part of physics. If you’re in environmental, you’ll be focused on the chemistry and fluid dynamics parts of physics.</p>
<p>Which AP course?</p>
<p>I would say go with physics, unless it’s not calculus-based. Otherwise go for environmental science. You want to get some credit so you have time to take some interesting courses. Don’t expect the ES course to count toward an EnviroE major though, it would be a “free elective” type of course.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>