<p>Ok so I've been taking classes at a community college for the past two years and its been ok. But I've recently realized just how much I hate chemistry. I don't like learning it, and then when I think I have a good idea of what each chapter is about it turns out that I'm wrong. I really just want to know just how much chemstry is involved in environmental engineering once you leave school. I don't hate physics or math, but i don't like them either, and I'm worried that if I don't have a real intrest in these things I'm not going to do well in the engineering field. Just in case I've also minored in writing and double majored in accounting.</p>
<p>you don't like chem, physics or math.</p>
<p>so, i think you should try some other major. the chances of you surviving an engineering major is slim.</p>
<p>Why do want to major in engineering when you obviously have no interest in the physical sciences and math?</p>
<p>ask yourself, what do you LIKE?</p>
<p>*i think envirnomental engineering involves a lot of chemistry.
about 1/3 of the chemical engineers in my school go into this field.
also civils enter this field too.</p>
<p>some info frm wikipedia:</p>
<p>" 'Pollutants' may be chemical, biological, thermal, radioactive, or even mechanical. Environmental engineering emphasizes several areas: process engineering, environmental chemistry, water and wastewater treatment (sanitary engineering), waste reduction/management, and pollution prevention/cleanup. Environmental engineering is a synthesis of various disciplines, incorporating elements from the following:</p>
<p>Civil engineering
Chemical engineering
Public health
Mechanical engineering
Chemistry
Biology
Geology
Ecology
Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to the environment. Some consider 'Environmental Engineering' to include the development of sustainable processes. There are several divisions of the field of environmental engineering.''</p>
<p>Let me add to things:</p>
<p>1) It's good that you are using a community college to take the lower-level math, physics & chemistry.</p>
<p>2) For me, the higher mathematics courses (junior/senior) were the ones that were the most fun (except advanced calculus). You could actually see applications to your major area. The same may happen with you and Environmental Engineering.</p>
<p>i hate chemistry as well and i'm glad i only need one semester of it for EE</p>
<p>I'm not a fan of Chemistry. Luckily, I only have to take ONE more course, totaling two.</p>
<p>a lot of hate-chem fans here..</p>
<p>Ive never met an engineer that liked chemistry, we are more physics minded people.</p>
<p>Don't know many chemical engineers?</p>
<p>oh I do, they hate chem. I have a few who dred it.</p>
<p>how can Chem E hate Chem?</p>
<p>I like chem but hate physics. I don't understand why at my school engineers can get by with taking one semester of chem but have to take two for physics.</p>
<p>Because chemistry is useless to an engineer, while physics is the most critical and fundamental part of engineering. The only time a engineer needs chem is in materials, which the majority of them dont ever use, so we dont.</p>
<p>If ur an engineering major and hate physics, there is something wrong.</p>
<p>which engineers only have to take 2 semesters of physics?</p>
<p>Pure physics, from the physics department? All of 'em...</p>
<p>At any rate, the reason why engineers have to take more physics than chemistry is because much more of engineering is applied physics than it is applied chemistry.</p>
<p>i thought that number was low. I have to take 3 at least, and know lots of people in the same boat. guess it depends on the school</p>
<p>''Because chemistry is useless to an engineer, while physics is the most critical and fundamental part of engineering. The only time a engineer needs chem is in materials, which the majority of them dont ever use, so we dont.</p>
<p>If ur an engineering major and hate physics, there is something wrong."</p>
<p>no it isn't, Chem isn't useless for chemical engineeers.</p>
<p>in my school they take a lot of chem classes in the first 2 years, i think like 4 to 5.
its a crucial part of their program.</p>
<p>Chemistry is very important to materials, biomedical, biomolecular and chemical engineering (though I dont see how that last one makes any sense). If you are in any one of those fields and dislike chemistry, then I suggest a change in major.</p>
<p>As a chemical engineering student (though, admittedly, still a lower level one), I don't understand why I needed to take a second semester of physics. Am I really going to dealing with magnetic flux and the lens maker's equation anymore than an ECE is going to deal with reaction kinetics or nuclear decay?</p>
<p>At Cornell we have to take 3 semesters of Physics and 1 semester of chemistry. </p>
<p>I hate chemistry too.</p>
<p>And, along those same lines feenotype, why should anyone outside of matsci or cheme or bioanything engineering take a chem class?</p>
<p>Typical Major Courses for Chemical Engineering:</p>
<p>Biochemistry
Chemical and biological reaction engineering
Chemical kinetics
Electrochemistry
Energy and material balances
Heat mass and momentum transfer
Organic chemistry
Physical chemistry
Thermodynamics (physics of heat)</p>
<p>So what does a chemical engineer do if not chemistry?</p>