<p>For my chemical engineering in my school, our fourth math requirement can be fulfilled by a stats class or linear algebra. Which one is more useful for future chemical engineering classes? (I'm a rising sophomore).</p>
<p>I found both courses useful, but I personally preferred linear algebra. Equations become so much easier when you make them into a matrix. </p>
<p>Por que no los dos?</p>
<p>My experience has been that statistics is more or less irrelevant to the undergraduate chemical engineering coursework* (no one is asking undergraduates to design experiments at my school, anyway…). Linear algebra can significantly simplify the simultaneous equation-heavy courses, particularly material/energy balances and reactions (it also makes it very easy to prove that a system is under- or over-specified by use of determinants).</p>
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<li>it may come up at a trivial level (p-values and such) when doing the ChemE lab courses</li>
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<p>Niquii77
I could take both but i would like to take other classes the stats class would count as an elective</p>
<p>Both really seems like the preferred soliton, though. Some schools even require both already.</p>
<p>While I agree that linear algebra is more useful for the ChemE, statistics is useful in general. I second the notion of taking both, even one as a gen-ed elective.</p>