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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people don't realize how much harder an Engg degree is compared to other strong degrees (science, econ/finance etc)[/quote]

My DC engineering student has almost double the amount of class hours (class, discussion, labs) as non-engineering friends. It is more difficult than most kids realize and many drop out. [/quote]
This is an underrated difficulty of engineering programs. I needed 140 credits to graduate with a BSCE eons ago. Most of it was very scripted and left only 9 hrs for electives (essentially just 3 classes) over fours years. There was little to no room for error or taking less than the 17-18 hrs per semester and you often don’t even get “credit” for the many required labs.

We also had to take one “basic” engineering class in a different E discipline (which, at the time boiled down to Circuits/EE or Thermo/ME) and that [i]one[/i] darn near killed me. But I loved all my CE classes (except Steel Structures, which, last I checked, isn’t even undergrad work now) and spent 10 years in that career before transitioning to another STEM field.

It is hard. It’s not for everyone. [/quote]
lol come on thermo was fun!!

-ME[/quote]
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Major, puns intended I suppose, props to you. I couldn't have done the full ride down that path. At least in Statics, everything had to equal zero![/quote]

I seriously think there is something odd about engineering courses (and I have a degree in Electrical/Electronics and a Ph.D. in physics). Eng thermo was awful, the Physics version (even stat mech) was easy. Transport phenomena (heat, mass transfer, fluid flow) was awful but a straight up physics of fluids class was easy (for me). Control theory (which is essentially complex analysis) was terrible. So it is not just the math or the underlying physics that is hard but something in the way it is used/taught in the engineering school versions of these classes that is just off. So hat tip to all engineers who go through and stick with it. Even general relativity or field theory is easier. 
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