<p>I'm hopefully going to end up at collge park next year, so I have a few questions about their engineering program. I think I want to be an engineer, so I just chose ME because it seemed the most versatile. Does anyone recomend switching to the Fire Protection Engineering(it seemed interesting), Aroespace Engineering, or anything esle? And what do engineering majors minor in, is this possible, and not ridicuously hard, to do?</p>
<p>It depends on the minor, if ur thinking pre-med and you want to minor in Biology then yeh its prob going to be insanely hard, but if minor in something easy like economics or management then you should be fin. If you arent sure about what type of engineering dont worry about it cause you have about 2 years to decide because the majority of engineering courses for all are the same till then. And ME is def the most versatile engineering field, you can do anything from nanotechnology to engine mechanics of a cruise ship</p>
<p>fire protection has a very small department with like 10 students graduating each year. There aren't that much opportunity. ME and EE are where the most engineers concentrated</p>
<p>re: india2007's idea of "easy" minors........... econ is pretty time-consuming, and management (or any other field of business) isn't even offered as a minor. </p>
<p>an actual easy minor to pick up would be a foreign language (typically only 5 classes are required for minoring in a foreign language, and they can count as upper-level electives which you need anyway) or something related to engineering so you get some repeat concepts (and maybe even a required course for your major and minor).</p>
<p>there's a list of minors here: <a href="http://www.provost.umd.edu/PCC_DOCUMENTS/Minors/%5B/url%5D">http://www.provost.umd.edu/PCC_DOCUMENTS/Minors/</a></p>
<p>minoring in econ or some other business like minor would be a lot more useful then a minor in a foreign language Lindz0722, a minor in a business like field would def help u get a job cause its a huge plus cause u not only know the technical side of a biz but also u can understand the financial side of biz</p>
<p>i'm in complete agreement, but there's a difference between a useful minor and an easy minor, which is what you had originally said.</p>
<p>and foreign languages are becoming increasingly important in every industry--you can't deny that.</p>
<p>you realize that most workers that are over seas speak english, in india for example english is mandatory in most schools in the country same thing for china so a foreign language is useless dont take it</p>
<p>india, the point of learning a foreign language is not only to be able to communicate in other countries, but also to use it HERE (since most of us born in the US go to school here and stay here). now that more people from other countries are moving to the united states, knowing other languages and cultures is more important than ever.</p>
<p>i don't really know what else to say to convince you of the importance of learning a foreign language.... i thought it was common knowledge these days that a job applicant who speaks multiple languges is much more likely to get a job than an equally qualified one who only speaks english. i think an adviser or admissions officer would certainly never tell a student that a foreign language is "useless" and not to take it.</p>
<p>maybe in china and india, english is a common language (which is great), but when i studied abroad in spain last semester, nobody spoke english.</p>
<p>really all of this is besides the point, since the OP asked about minors, and a foreign language (regardless of whether you think it's "useless" or not) is an easy minor because it is only 5 classes. that's the point here.</p>
<p>engineering is painful enough, you don't have to minor in anything. You will get a job, just focus on grades.</p>