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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A thread of ChemE students and grads explaining that you don’t need Ochem at all: [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/ChemicalEngineering/comments/ji309v/is_organic_chemistry_course_important_for/[/url]. Ochem has really nothing to do with what an engineer does, at all. Thermodynamics is extremely important, however.[/quote]

That’s all well and good but there are many chemE programs that are more molecular (hopkins) and it is needed. For BME as already stated by multiple people it is strongly encouraged or required even if not premed. [/quote]

They were not required when I went to school and, as PP stated, maybe I am too old and narrow minded. My kid who was ChemE (BS) and BioE (Phd) didn't take those courses either. [/quote]

MIT, CMU, GT and many others list Ochem as required for ChemE and materials or molecular, and  either strongly encouraged or required for BME. Pretty sure DCUM can agree these are top engineering places.

Goodness the whole point is that for SOME types of engineering, specifically those that relate to medicine the most, Ochem is often required as are physics and many other premed reqs hence there is a lot of overlap and doing premed and engineering in 4 yrs is completely feasible and common.

Many of us have students at various great schools currently doing it or we did it ourselves.

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Agree, part of the required degree at top schools and happens to make the overlap for a premed engineering student make sense. I do not use orgo daily in medicine yet it was required . Not sure why Ochem required for chemE materials BME degrees at MIT hopkins GT CMU etc is surprising or somehow controversial? These are well respected schools, the best in the country, as are the various unnamed ivies that PPs have mentioned that require it. So? That is not a negative on an engineering program to require or strongly encourage courses that some engineers later in their career profess are “unnecessary”. Ok. No skin in this game as mine is not premed and is in a different engineering field at one of these top schools. Gasp he is taking quantum maybe it is “not needed”? Who care I trust his top school and their challenging curriculum. He likes the challenge as do his peers. Thats why he is there[/quote]

You write just like PP. :)[/quote]

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