<p>I love my physics and math courses and have thus decided to pursue an engineering degree, probably mechanical. I also enjoy certain hands on work, but I prefer doing my homework for math/physics than my chem labs etc. Anyway, the point is I absolutely despise anything technical involving computers. I hate programming, seeing how they work, and therefore know very little about them as I only use mine to type papers and browse the internet. I find this odd because I enjoy finding out how pretty much anything else works, just not computers. Anyway, how much programming work, if any, can I expect in a mech. E degree? Thanks.</p>
<p>Edit: what about chemical engineering? I've been choosing between chem and mech but leaning towards mech recently but if chem has significantly less programming I will definitely lean towards that.</p>
<p>You can expect to do some programming in any engineering major. Programming makes life easy and though you don’t think so now, I think if you invested some time to learn, you could see its worth. It makes solving complex problems easier for engineers and does data analysis for us when we need it, among other things. </p>
<p>Anyways, if you get into engineering, expect some programming. You may not need to expect much depending on your focus, but expect some. Honestly, once you learn to program the basics of one language, it becomes very easy to learn others and it won’t be as terrible as you originally thought.</p>
<p>Also, as a mechanical engineer, expect to have to get good at CAD products.</p>
<p>Most engineering majors will encounter a computing course, usually involving MATLAB, since that may be commonly used in engineering computation.</p>
<p>Very little. But you will have to know the basics as previously said.</p>
<p>I see. So out of the chemical and mechanical engineering, which has the least programming, or do they both contain about the same amount? I assume it is somewhat dependent on the university, but I’m sure there is somewhat of a general trend.</p>
<p>I have no clue what is typical for chemical engineering in terms of programming, but i suspect that they have their share just like many other engineering programs. I don’t think you can really dodge it unless you don’t do engineering.</p>
<p>Well I’m most certainly doing engineering haha! I’ll tough it out if its required.</p>