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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a chemical engineer.  I do not think that it was a harder course of study than other engineering disciplines.  There is some extra course load w/ the extra chem courses and associated labs (damn you P-chem lab!), but "harder"?  Nah. More time-intensive?  Probably.

What I love about engineering school is that it teaches kids to get comfortable with the feeling of being lost.  There are times when you are sitting in a lecture and have zero idea what the professor is talking about.  You don't panic.  You sit with the discomfort and then eventually, hopefully, things start to click.  This is why I love hiring engineers for jobs even when not directly technical.  They know how to solve problems and don't freak out when given a task outside their comfort zone.[/quote]
This. I’m one of “lower-tiered” engineers that’s moved in a different but still very technical direction and I believe PP is correct. “Engineering” is about logic and innovation and reality (and the physical, chemical, electrical and practical limitations that govern most ventures in life). I am honored to have been so instructed and humbled to be around so many brilliant purveyors of their respective disciplines.

That said, from my experience, I found the nuke boys….cause they were all male back then…were the ones who operated in a whole other atmosphere.  We didn’t have any Aeros at our school but the next group of top talent were the EEs and ChemEs. The ME crowd also has my respect; thermo was the e class I really struggled in. 😩[/quote]

As an EE, thermodynamics was fun. I didn't like Statics and Dynamics. It's just tedious vector mathematics that you can only solve manually for very small systems. Most of the time you would just use ANSYS.[/quote]
As a ChemE, Thermo was probably my favorite. But I joke now that I have PTSD from the non-stop studying in college and for pretty average grades. Then went to law school where I graduated 5th in the class and never missed any sleep. [/quote]

What career did you end up falling into with that combo?[/quote]
Patent litigation. [/quote]

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