I’m a community college student planning on transfering to Purdue to study Environmental Engineering. There is an articulation agreement at my CC to transfer into EEE at Purdue. I was thinking about minoring in Zoology or Meteorology as those are my interests outside of Engineering. The good thing about the Wildlife (Zoology) Minor is there are two classes that are required for EEE that would satisfy the selectives requirements for the minor and those classes are Introduction to Ecology and Evoltuion and Ecology or Great Issues:Environmental and conservation Biology. There isn’t any overlapping requirements for the Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences (Meteorology) minor with EEE at Purdue other than maybe the prerequisites for the classes in that minor. I’m not picking a minor for the purpose of having an advantage when seeking a Job or admission to graduate school but to explore another field I like outside of Engineering. Is it a good combination to have a degree in Environmental Engineering and wildlife or Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences? Would a minor such as math, physics, or chemistry give a better foundation when working in the engineering field or my studies in graduate school (not when seeking Jobs or admission to graduate school but when doing them)? Would these minors I mentioned as my interests get some of the requirements if I studied meteorology or Zoology in graduate school out of the way?
Many people end up getting a math minor because sometimes their major requires to calc 3 and differential equations. For example my meteorology major at Albany math requirement goes up to Ordinary Differential Equations. I would need 1-2 extra math courses to satisfy the minor.
@NASA2014 so do you think a math minor or double major with meteorology would be useful?
" I’m not picking a minor for the purpose of having an advantage when seeking a Job or admission to graduate school but to explore another field I like outside of Engineering." - Then just fill your elective slots with courses that you find interesting… See other threads that have questions about minors and double majors… usually they are not an advantage and are sometimes a disadvantage.
There isn’t any room in the EEE curriculum to fill elective slots for Zoology or Meteorology.