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[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]

My dad was a mechanical engineer and thermodynamics was his specialty.  I think he did a lot of material stuff as well.  But I’m not sure they had all those different sub spdcialties when he went to school (in the 1940s with graduate work in the 1960s).  [/quote]

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