<p>You are basing your conclusions on a single case which simply does not hold everywhere. In terms of senior design projects at my school, the ChemEs have by far and away the most freedom with what they can do, because they literally design whatever they want. They get to make up/choose whatever it is that they feel like doing, I have heard there were students who designed processes to make alcohol filled gushers (the gummy snack food). On the other hand MechE are assigned to a particular project and are stuck with it whether they like it or not. The same is basically true for EEs as well.</p>
<p>EE is hard because you have to take so much **** in addition to EE classes...like programming, data structures, assembly and a bunch of other ****</p>
<p>No. No, no, no, no. Don't get into the whole "easy" engineering major thing, because there's no such thing as an easy engineering major, and everyone just says what they <em>think</em> would be an easy engineering major. Everything sounds easy until you actually have to take it.</p>
<p>Environmental engineering is definitely not easy. There's a metric buttload of chemistry involved, all sorts of transport phenomena and bio stuff and fluid mechanics and dynamics and things like that. It's definitely engineering, and it's definitely not easy.</p>
<p>....first one to say "civil engineering is the easiest" gets a knuckle sandwich. Fair warning!</p>
<p>PS- For my senior design project, I had to do structural evaluation and land development tie-in for a hypothetical building, and had to run all over the city getting all the petitions and building permit applications from city hall and such.</p>
<p>This topic doesn't do much. The difficulty of different majors may not vary that much and it all depends on how well you perform in certain classes. I don't think people's opinions matter that much unless they did each branch of engineering themselves. I'm just a high school student and I simply believe that all engineering disciplines should be difficult. Besodes aibarr the odds of someone saying civ is easy but they don't have any sort of clue of the stuff that goes into it are very high.</p>
<p>Icer, I doubt anyone would even make the argument that Industrial or Civil is harder than Mechanical. I would also doubt that many would argue that Mechanical is harder than Aero (although they are relatively close).</p>
<p>It's hard to compare Mechanical with Electrical, just because they are so different. However, I don't think it's a stretch to compare Computer Engineering with Electrical.</p>
<p>I get where you are going with Comp and Elec. Its just that sometimes some uninformed kids come one with their opinion but have no clue about engineering itself. You most likely are right.</p>
<p>there are no easy engineering majors....engineering is not for everyone and each of the different disciplines generally require math, physics and chemistry courses...however, relative to each other Chem and EE (and Comp E) are considered the hardest followed by Mech, Aero etc. Civil generally comes in the last place...which doesn't mean that it's an easy major by any means.</p>
<p>I wasn't the smartest civ by any stretch, and yet I smoked all the mechs in the mech class (vibrations... essentially advanced/system dynamics...) I took my senior year. Like, seriously smoked them all. I'd never smoked my classmates in any civ class.</p>
<p>Maybe civil's not the "easy" major y'all think it is. It's stereotyped as being easy, but perhaps people just haven't majored in <em>every single</em> engineering major.</p>
<p>This "easy" vs. "hard" conversation always ends up with all the EEs and ChemEs being coddled for how tough they have it and civs having their degrees dismissed as being a "lesser" engineering. It cheeses me off.</p>
<p>//spreads mustard on four slices of bread, piles thinly-sliced honey-roasted knuckle and swiss cheese on bread, slaps sandwiches together, hands them to Citan and Mr Payne.</p>
<p>I honestly have no idea, Payne. My dad was a mech. I'm a civ. I try to explain to him the things I'm working on and he's stymied. I took mech classes and did just fine. My officemate, after getting his PhD in civ, is now at JPL designing rovers and satellites, which might've been a good job for a mech. No idea what the deal is. Eet ees a meestery.</p>
<p>I honestly think that more people have the mental capacity to complete a CivE program at the undergrad level than just about any other type of engineering. I really do think that the curriculum for CivEs at the undergrad level is easier than other engineering majors. I think the perception that CivE is easier than MechE exists because it is true.</p>
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<p>O.k. Now that's just nasty. </p>
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<p>Because bridges and buildings don't move. People perceive mechanical as being more difficult because it is harder for them to grasp engineering something with lot's of moving parts compared to something that just sits there.</p>
<p>If aibarr's story about him smoking the mechanical engineers is argument worthy, then that might be a point for civils.</p>
<p>Yet there is a way this argument could be flawed: for example, if he/she took the mechanical course with beginner/freshman mech engineers while he/she already had a lot of engineering experience (in his/her senior year). That would destroy the validity of the argument.</p>