<p>I am currently a sophomore in Mizzou's chemical engineering department. I have a 3.4 cumulative GPA. This semester I am in in Organic Chemistry 2, Principles of Chemical Engineering 1 (Momentum, mass, and heat transfer), Thermodynamics, and a humanities elective for gen ed requirements. I have already completed Physics 1 and 2, Chem 1-3, Organic 1, Calc 1-3 and Differential Equations, and Mass and Energy Balances. I am starting to find the material incredibly boring and also stressful at the same time. I am thinking about changing to the school's bioengineering department that has an emphasis on Enviromental Engineering. I feel like this would take some stress off as I would be more interested in studying that. Is this a good idea? What kind of job outlook would I have? I am concerned with not being able to get a job but I really dislike ChemE at this point.</p>
<p>You may want to take a biology course before you decide which is more interesting.</p>
<p>But bioengineering is generally considered to have worse job and career prospects than chemical engineering.</p>
<p>At many schools, environmental engineering is tied more closely to civil engineering; you may want to see if civil engineering with emphasis on environmental engineering is also of interest to you. (Of course, civil engineering job prospects are poor right now due to the real estate / construction crash, though that is more of a cyclical thing than something that is always that way.)</p>
<p>With our school, the chemical, biological, and civil have environmental emphasis. However, civil and chemical tend to focus on the non-environmental courses, even in the late years for whatever reason. I am doing well in ChemE but I am not finding the material interesting at all.</p>
<p>Have you taken any biology or bioengineering courses? If not, you may want to take such a course before you decide – switching majors and then finding out that you like the new major even less would not be a good thing.</p>