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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Software engineering is not an engineering degree. Computer science degrees typically require calc I and calc II while real engineering requires calc I, calc II, calc III, and differential equations.

Kid doing CS is required to also take linear/matrix algebra

Does he/she have to take Introduction to Quantum Mechanics? Linear algebra is a requirement for QM.

Also, mining engineering? Who offers that degree?

CO School of Mines, SD Mines, and someplace in TX. High ROI.

Lots of schools. Around here, you have Virginia Tech, Penn State, and University of West Virginia.

The linked video did not include another option, which is Agricultural Engineering. Years ago at Virginia Tech, we viewed this major as less rigorous. At least back then, chemical engineering was considered toughest.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

1. Nuclear
2. Aerospace
3. Chemical

Tier 2:

4. Materials
5. Metallurgical
6. Mining

Tier 3:

7. Mechanical
8. Electrical
9. Biomedical

Tier 4

10. Petroleum
11. Computer
12. Software

Tier 5

13. Environmental
14. Civil
15. Industrial
16. Manufacturing

As an aerospace engineer, I love this list
But I really need to give those ChemEngineers props - they were the ones that we always looked at in awe as aerospace engineers.

They prefer "Rocket Science" please! Oh yeah when I worked at NASA with a CS degree - I had to learn Attitude Control and Determination.

My uncle did Chemical and my father EE both worked in Aerospace as I did. No one in the fam ever argued which is the hardest this includes others that are: Professors of Physics, BioChemistry, etc. And a few MDs as well.

They respected the person not the degree.

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Anonymous wrote:I am curious about material engineering, I don’t totally understand how it is different from chemical

In a nutshell, it's hard stuff rather than liquids or gas. It's a lesser known field, but the ratio of jobs to applicants is very favorable - you are very versatile, less funneled into one narrow path. At most schools, you'll benefit from smaller classes and lots of faculty attention and research opportunities once you've made it out of the Intro to Engineering type classes. Worth checking out.

Absolutely. We have such a hard time hiring materials engineers - they are in really high demand! The ones I know are absolutely brilliant.

Anonymous wrote:I have heard systems engineering is difficult. I would put it at tier one.

LOL!! No.

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

1. Nuclear
2. Aerospace
3. Chemical

Tier 2:

4. Materials
5. Metallurgical
6. Mining

Tier 3:

7. Mechanical
8. Electrical
9. Biomedical

Tier 4

10. Petroleum
11. Computer
12. Software

Tier 5

13. Environmental
14. Civil
15. Industrial
16. Manufacturing

As an aerospace engineer, I love this list
But I really need to give those ChemEngineers props - they were the ones that we always looked at in awe as aerospace engineers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am curious about material engineering, I don’t totally understand how it is different from chemical

In a nutshell, it's hard stuff rather than liquids or gas. It's a lesser known field, but the ratio of jobs to applicants is very favorable - you are very versatile, less funneled into one narrow path. At most schools, you'll benefit from smaller classes and lots of faculty attention and research opportunities once you've made it out of the Intro to Engineering type classes. Worth checking out.

A lot of nanotechnology is under Materials Science Engineering. Probably the most versatile and hirable degree out there for the next decade. CS is oversaturated; nanotech is the next big thing, for both the corporate and academic-based sectors.

Top US universities for nanotechnology based on research:

1) MIT
2) UCal-Berkeley
3) Stanford
4) Georgia Tech
5) Harvard
6) Northwestern University
7) U Illinois
8) U Texas-Austin
9) U Michigan
10) UCLA
11) Penn State
12) UC-Santa Barbara
13) Cornell
14) U Washington-Seattle
15) Purdue
16) NC state
17) Rice
18) U Wisconsin
19) CalTech
20) U Minnesota

25) U Penn
26) Princeton
27) U Maryland

30) Carnegie Mellon U.

34) Johns Hopkins U.

41) USC
42) Duke

45) Virginia Tech

58) Brown

62) U Virginia

https://edurank.org/engineering/nanotechnology/us/

That's small.

What a ridiculous question. They’re all difficult and how difficult it is for each individual varies based on how their brain works. I think most engineers know this. We don’t ask that question.

I have heard systems engineering is difficult. I would put it at tier one.

^Vtech and UVA are not cutting edge research colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am curious about material engineering, I don’t totally understand how it is different from chemical

In a nutshell, it's hard stuff rather than liquids or gas. It's a lesser known field, but the ratio of jobs to applicants is very favorable - you are very versatile, less funneled into one narrow path. At most schools, you'll benefit from smaller classes and lots of faculty attention and research opportunities once you've made it out of the Intro to Engineering type classes. Worth checking out.

A lot of nanotechnology is under Materials Science Engineering. Probably the most versatile and hirable degree out there for the next decade. CS is oversaturated; nanotech is the next big thing, for both the corporate and academic-based sectors.

Top US universities for nanotechnology based on research:

1) MIT
2) UCal-Berkeley
3) Stanford
4) Georgia Tech
5) Harvard
6) Northwestern University
7) U Illinois
8) U Texas-Austin
9) U Michigan
10) UCLA
11) Penn State
12) UC-Santa Barbara
13) Cornell
14) U Washington-Seattle
15) Purdue
16) NC state
17) Rice
18) U Wisconsin
19) CalTech
20) U Minnesota

25) U Penn
26) Princeton
27) U Maryland

30) Carnegie Mellon U.

34) Johns Hopkins U.

41) USC
42) Duke

45) Virginia Tech

58) Brown

62) U Virginia

https://edurank.org/engineering/nanotechnology/us/

I found the information here helpful. As the parent of a kid who wants to study engineering and will need financial aid, it was surprising to see how low the 4 year graduation rates are in my disciplines, because my understanding is that financial aid lasts 4 years. So, that moves pretty high on my list of criteria for a school. My kid likes and excels at math, so the information about math levels was less helpful, but I can see how it might be useful if you have a kid who wants to be an engineer but doesnm't love math.

Having said that, I feel like "this major is hard because it requires the highest level of math" and "this major is hard, because the programs are either overfilled so kids get closed out of classes, or tiny so classes get cancelled" are two very different things. So, while the information in the video is helpful, the ranking the combines those things really isn't.

Anonymous wrote:Electrical Engineering requires the most physics knowledge and is a very heavy theoretical field for an engineering degree. I'd put them "tier 1" before chemical any day

My husband (electrical engineering BS, MS) would agree!

On a side note I went to an engineering school and I don't think any of the majors are hard for those type of students.

I say that as my roommate was absolutely "big bang" theory brilliant. For him the very difficult Engineering major was super easy. I lost track of him, but I know he went to MIT for Grad School.

For average non STEM majors Engineering is insanely difficult. But the people who do it most are brilliant and for them it comes naturally.

Where does financial engineering fit? (Not joking)

Anonymous wrote:I am curious about material engineering, I don’t totally understand how it is different from chemical

chemical engineering is mainly about managing reactions to produce products at and industrial scale (think refinery plants), material engineering is less focused on mass production and more on the relationship between the micro chemical structure and the macro properties of materials