<p>Hey guys. So I'm currently a second year ChemE major. My gpa coming into this semester was a 2.09 and I decided to take less hours this semester but the classes I was taking were still very difficult. I ended up getting a 1.71 this semester unfortunately...my parents had convinced me to stick it out one more semester and that didn't work out</p>
<p>So I'm definitely switching majors. More than likely to industrial engineering. The thing is, in order to switch to IE, I've gotta pull my gpa to a 3.0. I'm registered for 2 IE courses that I'll have to take (only because I got permits for both) and a Spanish class (to help boost my gpa because foreign language at my school is so easy). Let's say I get a 4.0 next semester taking these classes, I still won't be at that 3.0 that I need to switch. What should I do in the mean time after? More than likely, I'm just gonna find the easiest classes that I can register for which is gonna be very difficult to do</p>
<p>Asides from switching to another major like that, first ask yourself why you would switch. ChemEng is hard but did you enjoy it in any way? Do you think that you’ll enjoy Industrial Engineering since it’s rather different. Chemical Engineering is generally about designing a physical object or product while Industrial Engineering is about designing processes and systems.</p>
<p>And most importantly, ask yourself why you did so poorly. Before even considering switching majors, the first thing you should do after a bad performance is ask why. Is it your study habits for example? Perhaps you were trying to memorize rather than understand or you were cramming for tests. Whatever the case, it behooves you to find out where you went wrong and how you can prevent it from happening again. If you don’t find out where you went wrong and simply hope for the best with Industrial Engineering, the problem may come back to haunt you with you being still unaware what the problem is. You could schedule a meeting with some advisers or professors to try to find the root of teh issue.</p>
<p>If you don’t like what you’re learning, I suggest to switch majors. If it’s the material that you’re not getting, as j814wong also suggests, you need to figure out what you’re doing wrong in your classes and figure out how you can get the better grades. You can either go undeclared or stay in the general engineering school so that you can get the classes you want if you don’t make it into the industrial engineering major by next semester. It might take 2 semesters.</p>
<p>if cheme is not for you, then i would switch and go into business with a focus on accounting, which is just another variation on cheme if you think about (cash flows v. mass flows). You will be amazed at how your 2 average in cheme becomes at least 3.4 in business with comparable effort. this could then lead to law or mba down the road and some substantial wealth in the process. </p>
<p>I hate to break this to you but if you are expecting your IE classes to be an easy A, I think you are bound to be very frustrated.</p>
<p>I am an IE major with 2 years left and the hardest class I have ever taken so far was not Chem, Physics or any Calculus, it was IE 305-Engineering Economic Analysis. </p>
<p>The material is not super hard but it is so dry and boring that no matter how much I tried, I could never get into it. Tests for this class were ridiculously hard.</p>
<p>I really like IE but I am not going to lie to you, most classes are extremely dry. What keeps me going is the fact that I love Optimization, Process Improvement and Manufacturing.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine someone studying IE without having a legitimate interest in at least one of these areas.</p>