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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Engineering is a major with a lot of required classes that build in a specific sequence.  That's true everywhere.  It's not going to be school dependent whether you can switch between different engineering disciplines.  By contrast, whether you can switch into or out of engineering will be very school dependant.

Basically, he'll likely be able to do foundation classes his first year, without choosing a type of engineering.  By sophomore year, he'll need to narrow it down a bit.  He may not need to pick a specific type of engineering yet, but he'll need to narrow down if he needs advanced chem/bio classes (e.g., chemical engineering, environmental engineering) for his degree. Junior and senior year he'll be pretty locked in.

I generally try to dissuade folks from studying biomedical engineering.  It's cross disciplinary such that you don't get enough of any one topic to be really useful.  You still need at least an MD, biologist and/or mechanical or electrical engineers to work on the medical device.  Medical devices aren't invented by teams of biomedical engineers.  [/quote]

We've heard that about biomedical engineering too.

I have heard there are definitely schools where switching, even within engineering is hard.  As an example, we looked up Johns Hopkins.  There the biomedical engineering major is the most competitive.  So, if my kid thinks "I think I want to be a mechanical engineer who works on medical devices" and then gets there and decides he does want biomedical, he can't necessarily switch.

He doesn't want that.  He wants a school where he can come in as undecided engineering, and all engineering disciplines will be open to him.  [/quote]

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