<p>I have read about a guy (this might have been thegradcafe) who TAed at Berkeley as a grad student, expecting the chem e curriculum to be hard, and the students smart, but it was the opposite. Because the classes were so large, the class was assigned only two problems per week, and they were easy problems too.</p>
<p>I can attest to a similar situation at my state school. When I took physics, all the exams had to be multiple choice, because that’s the only way the exams could be graded on time. Not really the case in our chemistry department though. First midterm is this wednesday, the exam is mostly calculations, we have over 1200 enrolled, and we have to stay after the exam to grade until they’re all inputted into the database… ****!</p>
<p>Anyways. The situation varies. I’ve taken glimpses of chem e lecture notes on the mit website, and their content has a lot more theory. There are a lot of variables, but the bottomline, in my opinion, is to just not think about it…</p>