I've heard cases from just about everyone. The aerospace and nuclear engineers seem to have it the worst, but some ECE grads told that those majors are just glorified physics and chemistry, respectively. I'm also told that mechanical and civil are pretty much jokes (by people inside and outside that major), but is still much harder compared to any liberal arts pussies.

12/12/2009 7:35:07 AM

12/12/2009 7:37:15 AM

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12/12/2009 7:38:27 AM

I seemed that you had a question then suddenly turned into a lecture

12/12/2009 7:42:17 AM

12/12/2009 8:04:18 AM

I dunno the hardest, but I can tell you Industrial is the easiest

12/12/2009 8:59:38 AM

I knew engineering wasn't for me when I learned we didn't get to drive a train

12/12/2009 9:10:17 AM

liberal arts pussies eh?

12/12/2009 9:44:35 AM

12/12/2009 9:52:22 AM

EE wasn't bad at NCSU. I wasn't until I got away from NCSU that I had an appreciation for what a nightmare EE could be.

Chemical/Biological/Nucular would probably be the hardest for me because I suck at anything chemistry related. Molecules, neutrons, moles, etc makes my head hurt.

12/12/2009 10:19:48 AM

aren't there a few left out here?

12/12/2009 10:39:14 AM

electrical or aerospace for sure

12/12/2009 10:40:41 AM

ME & CE are jokes? LOL. And ME is pretty close to AE, IIRC

12/12/2009 11:01:08 AM

you people being serious....youve ruined this thread. thank you

12/12/2009 11:02:50 AM

^^ [no]

12/12/2009 11:31:53 AM

Yo custodial engineering is the hardest by far

12/12/2009 11:33:22 AM

Sandwich engineering.

12/12/2009 11:38:56 AM

man, some of you guys get FAR too caught up in what your undergrad majors are

12/12/2009 11:40:15 AM

i imagine nuke is hard because they have all of 5 professors and they are all 700 years old

plus it's hard to curve where the are like 20 students in your entire department

12/12/2009 11:40:38 AM

Prly having to make these all day:

12/12/2009 12:21:55 PM

Quote :

"The aerospace and nuclear engineers seem to have it the worst, but some ECE grads told that those majors are just glorified physics and chemistry, respectively"

I find it being funny that an ECE grad described those majors as overglorified physics and chemistry, because I tell people the same thing about ECE. With that being said, aerospace and nuclear do have it the hardest in terms of actually finding a job.

12/12/2009 12:39:24 PM

all engineering is just applied math and physics

[Edited on December 12, 2009 at 12:56 PM. Reason : and a lot of common sense]

12/12/2009 12:55:54 PM

i havent heard of a NE having problems ever finding work...

i would go with Biomedical Engineering

12/12/2009 12:58:10 PM

shit every engineering here at State is easy as shit. UVA EE was challenging.

And Im not backing that up in any way so there.




[Edited on December 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM. Reason : a]

12/12/2009 1:01:59 PM

that looks like a Mechanical engine earring

12/12/2009 1:07:57 PM

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"a lot of common sense"

you've never dealt with most computer engineers then.

12/12/2009 1:17:47 PM

i didn't say they had it

[Edited on December 12, 2009 at 1:20 PM. Reason : most of the work i do is not hard, just time consuming]

12/12/2009 1:20:05 PM

my list just from knowing people in the major and how much crap they have to do, how long they stay in their respective buildings:

Aerospace(never leave broughton)/Nuclear(class averages of 50s before curves)
Biological(all the weed out classes from other engineerings)/Chemical (tons of chem)
Mechanical/ECE
Civil
Industrial

[Edited on December 12, 2009 at 1:27 PM. Reason : Note: Harder =/= Better. Just means you are retarded if you go into the harder for no good reason..]

12/12/2009 1:24:36 PM

I graduated aerospace back in 07 and of the five years I was in the program, I spent about the last three semesters or so living in Broughton. Having conversed with fellow engineering students, I have gathered that the three hardest (in no specific order) are aerospace, chemical, and nuclear.

There is no way that mechanical engineering is a joke. Their curriculum is actually quite similar to aerospace up until about second semester of junior year, so I had a lot of classmates that were mechanical students. They focus more on thermodynamics and heat transfer whereas us aerospace geeks focus more on fluid dynamics and control systems.

Civil and industrial appear to be the easiest, as most people I knew who couldn't cut it in aerospace or mechanical usually switched to one of those two and had no trouble.

12/12/2009 1:31:58 PM

I always assumed aerospace engineers never left Broughton because they were stupid and had trouble keeping up with an overglorified mechanical engineering program.

12/12/2009 1:40:54 PM

textile engineering

12/12/2009 1:42:23 PM

ME was easy peasy japanesey

12/12/2009 1:42:46 PM

Quote :

"I always assumed aerospace engineers never left Broughton because they were stupid and had trouble keeping up with an overglorified mechanical engineering program."

again, i think it's the amount of work, not the difficulty of that work

12/12/2009 1:44:20 PM

advanced paper airplane making

12/12/2009 1:46:38 PM

aerospace and nuke majors are also the most odd of all engineering majors... followed closely by ECE majors.

[Edited on December 12, 2009 at 1:59 PM. Reason : hooray generalizations. ]

12/12/2009 1:58:58 PM

we're not odd, we're just predominantly indian

12/12/2009 1:59:42 PM