<p>i am a freshman and i major in Food Science and technology,which almost involves chemistry so i am afraid that i coundn't go further in this way because of color blindness, i am now considering about transfering to another one,which majors can i choose? is it a fact that most engineering majors are unaccessable to color blindness? i need help..</p>
<p>Industrial and Systems Eng is fine.</p>
<p>Why would any engineering major be inaccessible to colorblindness? Perhaps it is just my own ignorance of the condition, but I can’t think of any engineering degree that would require the ability to discern red and green.</p>
<p>Well, color-coding is used in a lot of areas, and I can see how someone with color blindness might have problems in electrical engineering… I just do not think that those problems would be crippling. Can’t read resistor color codes? Read the packet/drawer label and/or use an ohmmeter. Can’t tell which wire is which? Use colors you CAN identify along with other markers, and if you occasionally have to ask someone which wire is red and which one is green, its no big deal.</p>
<p>I am also red/green color vision deficient and I got through my circuits lab just fine. Like cosmic said, I once had to ask for help identifying resistors when I didnt have an ohmmeter handy but that was about it.</p>
<p>I really can’t imagine too many other practical limitations for engineering.</p>
<p>I worked with a colorblind EE, making electrical equipment that used military color codes. He could do everything but inspection that included color codes.</p>
<p>I’m sure that you’d be fine. If you need to tell a few resistors apart or read some color codes, it’s a ten second deal to ask someone else to come over and tell you. Besides, by the time you graduate, stuff like Google Glass will be out and that could probably tell you what’s red and what’s green.</p>
<p>I think as long as you’re not working as a lone electrician or bomb technician, you should be fine.</p>
<p>My husband has a degree in electrical engineering and is color blind. It does not seem to impact him at all. Picking out matching colors in shirts and ties (when reds and greens are involved) seems to be his biggest problem.</p>
<p>I think it prevents you from becoming a pilot and it might be a problem for electricians, but I can’t imagine why it would be a major problem for engineers.</p>
<p>thanks… …but i also have something unsure,is it a right choice that i continue studying my present major(Food science and technology)?</p>
<p>I doubt anyone on here knows enough about that major to say. Have you talked to any of the faculty in your department? I would not think that there are majors outside of art where color blindness would really be a crippling problem, but the only way to be sure is to talk to professionals and academics in that field and see how often it would be a problem and what kind of accommodations or adaptations you would need to get through.</p>
<p>Shoot, even art would be doable so long as your goal was to be a sculptor or some sort of painter who doesn’t use red or green. Or maybe your goal is to just make random things out of only red and green and then see how awesome they turn out when you can’t tell the difference while painting. That would probably would sell really well.</p>
<p>At any rate, asking if your current major is something you should stick with is absolutely impossible for us to answer. We don’t know you or how much you like the major and most of us probably have no real idea what a food sciences major entails in the first place.</p>
<p>What an interesting question. My father was very color-blind and was a very successful mechanical engineer. My son also is color-blind and wants to go into civil engineering, but I don’t think it will be a problem - at least we never thought it would be!</p>
<p>Now, art, on the other hand, or fashion design - that would be a problem!</p>
<p>DS2 (9th grade) is color blind, interested in industrial engineering, art and architecture. He has to make sure his teachers know of his disability but for the most part, it is a nonstarter.</p>
<p>Food Science is a broad field and I’m not sure what area you’re concentrating on. Certainly anything that requires qualitative assessment based on color, such as food inspection, particularly meat, could be a problem. You’ll sort out the limited areas as you go.</p>
<p>M
former Agronomist
current Optometrist</p>
<p>I’m a senior in high school, and I have recently found out that I am red green colorblind. I plan on majoring in computer engineering. Does anyone know of any scholarships for students with red green colorblindness.?</p>
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<p>I haven’t dug deeply, but this is very likely nothing new. Using red filters on one or both eyes lets reds pass. Greens are completely blocked, appearing black. It allows the distinguishing of color by shades of grey rather than color, per se. Look up X-chrom lens. Likely the same, and old, concept.</p>
<p>M</p>
<p>Senior in HS? Wow, that seems like a long ways to go without realizing it.</p>
<p>Does R/G color blindness also influence the way you see blended pigments? For instance, if yellow and red paint were blended together, does the color blind person see just the yellow, or does it appear orange?</p>
<p>There are varying degrees of penetrance of color perception defects. Since the majority of them are congenital and not acquired, it is very common for color perception problems to go unnoticed. It is, after all, the way they’ve been all their lives. Why would they know something is out of line?</p>
<p>M</p>
Red Green Colorblindness, for me, is like having only one red and green color; but, any color that mixes them can’t be seen. The predominant color takes place of the whole color; and, my perception of red or green is the color I see. However, it appears weird in appearance because something is missing. Florescent colors of most colors except amber completely disappear. I once was employed as a data entry operator. Any form that was filled in with a neon pen were blank to me. My supervisor would look in awe at me, as if I’d saw a ghost.