Is Chemical Engineering a hard major?

Depends on you. I personally find english classes much harder than any engineering course. I typically get high 80's, low 90's in my engineering courses. But, I am able to only get around low 70's in my english classes. Depends on you. There isn't much pure physics in chem eng.

Expect to take 3 to 4 courses plus some lab time.

Physics isn't extremely important just to get a bachelors in chemical engineering.

But poor Math ability would be a large handicap.

Is chemistry hard?

Is engineering hard?

Now put the two together. There's your answer.

Beyond your first 2 courses you probably won't need much physics for ChemE, although physics is a big part of your engineering core courses (esp statics and dynamics).

I am a physicist and studying materials engineering at the moment which is a mixture of physics, chemistry and industrial engineering.

From my point of view you do not need to know too much 'theoretical' physics such as theory of relativity , quantum mechanics, electrodinamics, stadistical physics, rational mechanics and so on which I can assure you are the most abstract things you can study in a degree and most people are f*** up about,so you will have to study just solid state chemistry as the most abstract topic and maybe some algebra, calculus and differential equations in the first courses (I dont know the US education system actually) as well as organic and inorganic chemistry (really boring in my opinion lol) and some physicochemistry where most of chemist and chemical engineering get stuck but you wont go thoroughly, trust me. so you wont have to know so much about Einstein, Dirac, De broglie, Yukawa and friends to get your degree :)

Remember engineering is not a science, it is just an application of it.

just try it, BE TENACIOUS and the best of lucks.

hope this is helpful to you.

Chemical Engineering hard? I guess if youre an idiot it is hard. I group Chemical Engineering with Physical Eduacation. All the athletes and partiers take those majors.

sp!kes wrote:

Chemical Engineering hard? I guess if youre an idiot it is hard. I group Chemical Engineering with Physical Eduacation. All the athletes and partiers take those majors.

I concur. Add loose woman into that category as well.

Do you have a PhD in physics?

Yes, it is hard.

Engineer wrote:

Do you have a PhD in physics?

I got my PhD in Physics when i was 15

When I was at Georgia Tech (1990's) the amount of physics required for all engineering majors was the same...three introductory physics classes. We were on the quarter system, so I guess that would be about two semesters worth nowadays.

Everything you will need to know is covered in this text:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Physics

Is Chemical Engineering a hard major?

Ha Ha, Dude if you are asking it is too hard for you. Go PE and call it a career.

I imagine it is - but I never quite got past converting grams to moles in high school chem - so my opinion shouldn't count.

I graduated in '08 with a degree in biomedical engineering and I'd say the chemical engineering classes are much harder than any other department.

Despite what other posters said about not needing much physics, I'd definitely disagree. If you are struggling in basic physics courses, steer clear of ChemE.

Chemistry is hard.

Engineering is hard.

Combine the two and you expect it not to be hard?

We'll if you are good at chemistry, Applied mathematics, highly proficient in Matlab/scilab, can use programs to simulate your process model and you can cope with about 4 hours of sleep a night in your final year. Then yes, its not too bad.

If you're smart enough to handle calculus, and you take school seriously, you can do anything in undergrad. It's just a matter of putting your head down and not getting discouraged by the occasional failed test.