<p>For all chemical engineers at high ranked schools (top 25) how much work on average is given every day? A very rough estimate, such as +/- 5 hours a day. Thanks</p>
<p>i guess it depends on how you study. a lot engineering classes have weekly problem sets, some of my classes have daily homework due every other day which takes about an hour each. </p>
<p>lets say you take 5 classes,
3 of the classes have weekly psets that will take about 4 hours each.</p>
<p>2 of the classes have homework problems due MWF that take about 1 hour each.</p>
<p>3(4) + 2(3) = 18 hours a week i'd guess on homework.</p>
<p>Wow.. so if I study around 3 hours a day as a senior in high school I should have no problem with the workload in chemical engineering? I know it's tougher and takes time, but I always heard about engineers not having a social life and such. If it's less than 3 hours a day I don't understand the stereotype.. just out of curiosity, what school/major are you? Thanks for the advice btw.</p>
<p>top 10 engineering school, honestly alot of people I know average about 3 hrs a day, and that seems to be enough to get by at least. maybe not excel</p>
<p>remember your work load will differ from year to year and school to school</p>
<p>if you go to a school that requires some humanities courses, thats usually more paper writing than problem sets</p>
<p>also remember in first year ChemE all you basically take is Calc, Fisx, and Chem, and probably a writing course and something else....so if you have taken any of those classes you will most likely need to study less than 18 hours/week</p>
<p>however, 2nd year chemE's usually take Orgo and some ChemE course so again, depending on you, that might take 18 hours/week</p>
<p>3rd and 4th year you are done with the basic math/science req and are heavy into the ChemE courses so you would probably be in the 18+hour/week study time (maybe?)</p>
<p>From what I've heard, a lot of Chem E upper division classes are labs. In my major, a formal lab report usually takes around 10 - 14 hours to finish, and we have one every week. So, if you have about 2 - 3 lab classes, with the other two classes having a problem set every week and projects , you could easily be looking at least around 30 - 40 hours of workload every week.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for all the advice. I plan on studying AP chemistry/AP calculus/AP physics very extensively with a private teacher over summer so I think I willl do well. </p>
<p>I've always heard that freshman year was hardest. Especially for engineering. I really just had the preconception that I would be spending all day everyday on work.. if it's really just less than 5 hours then that makes me feel a lot better about engineering. Thanks</p>
<p>hm, i've seen that it gets harder as you go on.</p>
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<p>Before i post-Top 25 schools in the country?or top 25 'ENGINEERING' schools in the country?</p>
<p>Engineering, I assume.</p>
<p>Engineering :)</p>
<p>well, u can do work 5 hours/day and prolly get by. But if u want to excel and ur not a genius, you'll prolly have to work most of the day, which isn't bad if u have the right attitude about it. I only go out about once a week but I make sure it's worth it (ie. do really crazy stuff)</p>
<p>These people are nuts. I'm first year engineering, have a 3.8 GPA, and do 2 hours a day, tops; and I by no means consider myself a genius. I go to a top school in Canada, and I have a friend who has friends at MIT, and they apparently have the same workload.</p>
<p>I know SOME people that do 5 hours a day. But cherrybarry, you're saying that 5 hours is enough to just get by? That is completely ridiculous.</p>
<p>The 2 hours per/day does not mean durign exams either. During exams I'm pretty much studying all day.</p>
<p>I think a big difference is seen between quarter and semester system. Within 2 weeks of school in the quarter system, midterms begin...and since professors set their own midterm schedules, we're guaranteed at least 1 a week for the rest of the quarter with the standard load of 4-5 classes.</p>
<p>agreed, days with exams are often in the evening at 8pm or so, and the day of the exam many people are studying from the time they wake up till the exam.</p>
<p>Yeah..my friends and i get to school around 10am in the morning and study till nighttime for tests.We have to skip classes to do this. We do this for Calc 2(it's crazy how much information you need to remember in order to solve the problems-and that was only the second test).I have a cumulative final exam in 2 weeks.</p>
<p>Physics will just give you a headache.You need to study the most for this class.Its not like math were you just solve the problem.If you dont have an extremely good grasp on the concepts, you wont perform well on the exams because the exams look NOTHING like the H.W problems.Not looking forward to this CUMULATIVE final exam at all.</p>
<p>if you plan on taking ap chem,ap calc and ap physics this summer, you should do very well your first year.</p>
<p>The thing for me is that I've been a major slacker all my high school years. Especially now as a senior; I fail every AP chemistry test because I put absolutely no effort. I've noticed that when I tried I usually did just as well as everybody else in chemistry. In AP biology when I try, I usually beat everybody. I just want to hone in on my time management skills over summer, and I want to be really good at the AP level physics/chemistry/calculus.
I just don't see the point in trying at this point in time after I've been accepted anywhere (I will have a 3.5-4.0 for semester just getting by with 5 weighted grades).</p>
<p>You dont need to force anything.You will naturally develop better studying habits as it gets more and more rigorous.Because you'll realize that you need to study more to get the same grades you got in high school-you dont even 'realize' it.It just kind of 'happens.' Im really surprised by how much more i have been studying this semester compared to the first semester.
And i was also a big time slacker in high school.But thats because it was a joke.Being a slacker in high school means you want more of a challenge.And thats exactly what you'll get if you major in engineering.Dont let anyone scare you.Like i said, you'll just naturally adjust...
You'll have a REALLY good start in college if you take those three ap courses in the summer though.And steer clear from horrible professors.Go to 'ratemyprofessor.com' to check out professor ratings.</p>
<p>For the first year it is about how much you know. A lot of people I know worked their asses off on the labs and not much else. If you went to a bad high school, you're going to be working that much harder to catch up. It evens out completely by the second year when all of the courses taken are completely new so that people that you might be smarter than but were ahead of you because of their high school and coasted the first year will fall behind.</p>
<p>I say I work a lot. It is definitely posssible to have fun but i think the no lives comparison just comes from working so much more than many other majors (for chemE even more than a lot of the engineering majors). Just because we don't go out every weekday doesn't mean we don't have lives.</p>