<p>I’ve always been swayed against electrical engineering. I guess I should look into it more…?</p>
<p>Go with whatever interests you the most. Everything else will fall into place accordingly.</p>
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<p>Does it interest you? The pay and job prospects are about the same as chemical engineering, it’s just a different field.</p>
<p>elec will be easier cause more guys will be throwing themselves (along with old assignments, midterms and finals) at you.</p>
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<p>So true, I was a couple labs short of a Chem degree as well but loathed Chem Labs… still do. Regardless, if you’re a ChemE with a whole year to sit around on because the one class you need to graduate isn’t offered until the fall I high suggest you take the inorganic chemistry series, one of my favorites course series I took in college, and oddly enough I elected into it.</p>
<p>Generally, if you are a swayed away from something than chances are it’s not for you. Applied Math vs. ChemE is a good first conundrum.</p>
<p>Heh, I totally agree with that last statement Japher.</p>
<p>Since I can’t really decide now which is right for me, what do you suggest I do? Should I just take both math and chemE classes in college and see which I like better…and go from there? I will have taken Calc III by the end of senior year (but I’ll probably still take Calc III first semester in college), but my school doesn’t offer AP Chem. Will not even taking AP Chem by the end of high school really hurt me?</p>
<p>If you spend enough time on these boards you will learn that ChemE’s, when they graduate, are not only a few courses shy of a chemistry degree but are also a not too many more courses shy of a math major. I would give ChemE a shot, it is a lot less chemistry than you would imagine, despite having to take a lot of chemistry. If you find that you don’t like the transfer courses (heat, mass, fluids, etc) than I would switch to math, you won’t have lost a lot of time. If you do switch to math I would examine applied math or something with a more practical nature as I think that might suit you better.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice Japher! Sounds like chemE is the way to go. Would a chemE/applied math double-major be absurd?</p>
<p>Not only would it be absurd, it would be a waste of time.</p>
<p>^Agreed. Don’t be a masochist.</p>
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<p>I would call a ChE + any other double major “absurd”. The single major is hard enough to finish in 4 years, so to add on a second major would take at least 6.</p>
<p>For some strange reason, people on this website like to double major, and I don’t get it. If you want to have some level of competence in two technical fields, a BS in one and MS in the other is more valuable both professionally and academically than a BS degree with two majors.</p>
<p>^definitely agree. I personally feel that a double major has a greater chance of jeopardizing your career than it does in helping it. Create a definitive career path, not one that say “I don’t know, whatever”…</p>
<p>ok i am not trying to be rude but your thought 0f being an engineer and double majoring in another science (or tech ) related subject is pretty much impossible unless u r a social outcast who doesn’t even have a facebook( too general??) or a genius.
The single engineering degree is hard enough with all the labs and course work. When I was in high school , I used to feel the same,(well my ambitions were more absurd , i wanted ece and cs double major, without having any programming knowledge attracted by the "versatility " of cs major and earning abillity of ece). My earnest advice for u is to go for chEng, as its easier to opt out of engineering than the other way. If you don’t like like course work after your third sem(when you may start to take actual eng classes) then you can still change to some other science or non-science major easily.</p>
<p>Facebook, the new standard for being normal. Years ago having a blog was considered extremely nerdy. How times have changed.</p>
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<p>dude can you read? OF COURSE a chem major cannot schedule 3 or 4 ChE courses and expect to get a ChE degree…i was saying its easy for a ChemE major to get a chem degree as well</p>
<p>and yeah DO NOT do a chem E +math double major…not because it is hard or whatever…but the higher level math classes are basically useless…and theres only a handful of applied math (400 level) courses that are useful for engineering problems…the rest is all useless theory-type stuff. trust me i love math and thought I’d give a math minor a try…but i realized how much of a waste of time it was…if you want to schedule a math course make sure its either numerical analysis/computation OR it says “for engineers” in the course title…most schools have a ‘numerical methods in chemical engineering’ course anyways so you dont even need to take a math numerical computations course…</p>
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<p>Dude? Anyway, I fail to see the reading comprehension issue. As I pointed out, a ChE cannot take three or four classes and earn a second degree in Chemistry at any school of which I am aware. Typically, a ChE student would need to take between 30 and 120 additional hours beyond the ChE degree to earn the second major. </p>
<p>If that’s not consistent with the policy at your school, please let us know which school it is. I would be curious to look at how they structure their degrees.</p>
<p>I just want to point out what I said here:</p>
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<p>Note that I took a whole year of Chem courses and hadn’t obtained a chemistry degree, nor was I aiming for one. I wanted the knowledge not the badge, and I was avoiding labs. I think it would take an additional year, full time, to get a chem degree after a ChemE degree. Is it worth it? Not really.</p>
<p>All right, got it. I think I’ll just start off taking both applied math and chemE classes and see which ones I like better. Then I’ll pick a major. Sound good?</p>
<p>Sounds good. What are the lower level applied math courses?</p>