<p>I hate physics. I absolutely loathe it. Been doing okay, but I hate the subject to death. </p>
<p>I'm pretty weak in science actually. But I'm fairly strong in math (maybe not by engineer standards, but definitely enough to get me through accounting/finance).</p>
<p>I plan to major in IE (Industrial Engineering), a field where science mastery is not a necessity. I'll probably start thriving once I get into my actual IE courses. However for the first year and a half, I'll be taking general prereqs, which absolutely suck the soul out of me.</p>
<p>Do you think I should stay in engineering, or jump to business school? There's some chance I might be able to pull a semi respectable GPA (def not a 4.0, but maybe 3.0 ish, give or take). Keep in mind that I'm fairly certain I'll enjoy the upper level IE classes, but absolutely HATE what I'm learning right now, save for certain bits of calc.</p>
<p>Haha I’m in the same spot as you are! I plan on pursuing Industrial Engineering, but I’m really bad in Physics in high school already. But I love the business aspect of this major, and can’t wait till the upper-level courses in college! Till then, I just thought I should slug through as much as possible lol</p>
<p>The reason I’m doing IE instead of a business major, is because IE offers me a lot of options that business majors might not. Having a degree in both engineering and a bit of business is really lucrative nowadays, and is basically a watered down version of an MBA IMO. I know a few family friends who took the IE route, and didn’t bother pursuing an MBA later onwards because their education plus their internships supplemented it!</p>
<p>Without physics you will not be able to understand important lectures that discuss ladder safety, shoe friction, or forklifts tipping over, all key IE subjects :D</p>
<p>(you should have seen the faces of EE students that came to the classroom after us and saw pictures of ladders and forklifts on the board… Priceless)</p>
<p>An MBA is a watered down version of IE if you plan to go operations and/or logistics/supply chain managment.</p>
<p>The benefit of an MBA is 1) credential for C-levels and other executives and 2) best for strategic vision of the company, not the details, that’s why you hire industrial engineers :-)</p>
<p>what about SCM? do you think that’s worth looking into, or just watered down IE?</p>
<p>i’m willing to take additional math courses to supplement SCM, if necessary. it’s just a pain to slug out physics/chem/intro EE/ME courses.</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure the IE department is more prestigious at my university (one of the top 20). but the SCM program is fairly strong too, and not that far behind.</p>
<p>to turbo93, I’m not interested in the manufacturing concentration, but rather the operations research concentration.</p>
<p>I’m an IE major in my last semester of undergrad. I’d say just get through the Physics but I’m personally not interested in the “Management” side of IE, just the OR side. I don’t think I’d like being a business major but if you think you would then maybe business is the better choice for you.</p>
<p>So you’ll never get to learn about the pallet stacking problem? The horrors :D</p>
<p>I’m a big fan of operations research myself, actually, tho my concentration in IE was human factors engineering.</p>
<p>Check out Purdue’s Operations Management program, they seem to do a pretty good mix between regular MBA and quantitative based stuff, I’ve known a couple of them and they’re just what a business needs for day to day stuff, not necessarily the CEO vision fluff.</p>