<p>mechanical or chemical ? if chemical than even daily study and good base in chemistry will even make it harder ?</p>
<p>Please learn English. Harder is correct. “More harder” is wrong and redundant. Learn the difference between then and than. The first has to do with time. The second has to do with quantity: more than “>”, less than “<”, it is also a math symbol. And to answer your question, it all has to do with your natural abilties and interests. Some people do well in ME and would flunk Chem E. Others do well in Chem E and would never be able to pass ME. To thine own self be true.</p>
<p>He at least writes better English better than I could probably scratch out in his native language. </p>
<p>But yes, the difficulty of the major is definitely going to be subjective.</p>
<p><strong>should I do it?</strong>
<strong>Yeah, why not</strong></p>
<p>Nestle Crunch ice-cream topped with chocolate syrup is the hardest.</p>
<p>btw, I love that I wrote this:
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<p>And that is a win for Chucktown!</p>
<p>Chemical engineering is reputedly among the hardest majors… mechanical engineering has a lot of the same material, though, so I’m sure the difficulty is similar. Personally, I would recommend chemical engineering. For one thing, it’s a newer field so there’s more research opportunity if you’re into that sort of thing. The chemistry component will also open more job opportunities to you than mechanical engineering will.</p>
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<p>This hurts my logic gland. OUCH!</p>
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<p>So does that!</p>
<p>What did you smoke before this post? It is pure nuts! There are tons, and tons, and tons… and tons of research opportunities in mechanical engineering. The amount of research going on in a field has absolutely nothing to do with the age of the discipline. It has to do with how relevant it is to modern technologies. Guess what, chemical engineering is no more relevant than mechanical engineering. Chemical engineering also has no more research opportunities than does mechanical engineering.</p>
<p>As for jobs, the chemistry component of chemical engineering will open up more jobs for you that require detailed knowledge of chemistry. In a general sense, however, it will not open more jobs for you overall. Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest engineering fields if not the broadest. Suggesting otherwise is silly. I get it, you like your major, and there is nothing wrong with that. Please don’t allow your love to cause you disseminate false information though.</p>
<p>ChemE will qualify you for basically all ME jobs, plus a knowledge of chemistry. Hence, more job opportunities (maybe I should have said “broader”). Same thing with research; there’s a lot of overlap between ME and ChemE, except that ChemE will also better qualify you for, say, nuclear engineering research. Again, “broader” may have been a better word. Also, I would say that ChemE would perhaps be a more exciting field since, as I said, it’s newer. I don’t know the OP’s likes and interests; I was just making suggestions.</p>
<p>I certainly didn’t mean to malign ME or anything like that; if you enjoy it and are passionate about it, you’ll find it plenty rewarding.</p>
<p>@MomfromKC: At least award partial credit for not writing “most hardest” when selecting between two options (or is it “selecting among too options”?).</p>
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<p>False. 100% false. You clearly don’t have an understanding of ME. They are two different disciplines for a reason. Furthermore, if chemical engineers were qualified for “basically all ME jobs”, then their job outlook wouldn’t be worse than that of an ME [1][2]. Seriously, this isn’t even remotely true. That isn’t to say that either chemical engineers or mechanical engineers are inherently better than the other, but they absolutely cannot even come close to doing each others’ jobs. Don’t say things you can’t back up with facts. You just look silly.</p>
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<p>This is, once again, patently false. There is definitely some overlap, particularly when it comes to transport processes, but there is a lot to mechanical engineering that chemical engineers will never touch: e.g. dynamics and controls, strength of materials and solid mechanics, or machine design. Of course, there are plenty of things that chemical engineers do that mechanical engineers will never touch as well. The thing is, the only thing that says about the research in each field is that it is different.</p>
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<p>This is a statement based 100% on opinion. You think it is a more exciting field. That has nothing to do with which one is newer, and even then, it is arguable to say that one is newer than the other. In reality, both have been around since antiquity in one form or another.</p>
<p>At any rate, just because a field is old does not mean that it doesn’t do any new or cutting edge research. Both disciplines, for example, are doing a lot with nanotechnology these days despite the age of both fields, and that is cutting edge. Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology is new and cutting edge. Plastics that self-repair, ceramics that can withstand ultra-high temperatures, shape memory alloys, lab-on-a-chip fluid systems, vision-based robotics, and so many more fields are cutting edge and fall under a discipline as “old” as mechanical engineering. There are doubtless plenty of similarly new technologies for chemical engineers as well. The important thing is that you can’t base the amount of research being done in a field on how old or new it is. That is just silly. If anything, older fields are going to still have plenty to do, which is why they have been around so long.</p>
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<p>The issue here isn’t whether or not you are disparaging mechanical engineering, it is that what you are saying is at best misleading, and at worst (and probably more accurately) flat out wrong. I in no way think either is inherently better than the other, and people should pick based on their interests. However, the information they receive should be objectively true; something your posts don’t even approach.</p>
<p>Sources:
[1] ME Outlook: [Mechanical</a> Engineers : Occupational Outlook Handbook : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics](<a href=“Mechanical Engineers : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics”>Mechanical Engineers : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
[2] ChemE Outlook: [Chemical</a> Engineers : Occupational Outlook Handbook : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics](<a href=“Chemical Engineers : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics”>Chemical Engineers : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)</p>
<p>You also might want to consider materials science and engineering.</p>