How hard is Chemical Engineering?

These are the classes I had to take in ChemE undergrad:

Physics I, Physics II

Quantum Mechanics

Statics

Dynamics

Engineering Materials

Chem I, Chem II

Organic Chem I, Organic Chem II plus labs.

Physical Chemistry

BioChem I, BioChem II

Calculus I, Calculus II

Multivariable and Vector Calculus

Differential Equations

Partial Differential Equations

Statistics and Probability

Computer Applications

Technical Writing

Thermodynamics

Transport Phenomena

Chemical Process Engineering

Chemical Reactor Engineering

Chemical Plant Design

Biomedical Engineering Design

Engineering Economics

+ labs for most of the engineering and science courses

+ nine humanities courses

Also:

Electrical Engineering Circuit Design

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heytheredelilah wrote:

My best guess would be the following:

Engineering

Physics

Chemistry

Math

Commputer Science

Biology

But, I have never even taken a computer science class, or a biology class though.

Put Engineering below physics chemistry and math. As a math/physics double major, the hardest engineering classes were pretty easy for me, in comparison. And math is harder than chemistry for most people.

Of course it's easy to do well in engineering courses if you're taking 3 math/physics classes per semester and 2 joke courses...

The hardest part of engineering is taking 5 science courses for 4 years straight, science majors have a lot more time to study for their hard classes.

Engineering students, at least at my school, also have a lower GPA on average despite having a considerably higher entering average % than science students, so this points to the fact that engineering is harder than science.

Lmao I'm a chemE at UT Austin and I can confirm this

I knew a guy with a Chemical Engineering degree. Joined the Army because he couldn't find a job. Though I think it was more like he couldn't find a job where he wanted one. Funny, he enlisted as a 74D.....Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Specialist.

We went to the same AIT and he was pissed when I beat him out for Honor Grad. We got the same academic scores (all 100s) but he couldn't PT to save his life and your PT test score is factored in when you have a tie.

We ended up at the same unit and his PT struggles continued. Not sure if he's still in the Army. Smart guy. Just couldn't "Army" well enough I guess.

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Alan

These averages for study hours outside class pretty much affirm the claims here, except for two things, architecture is the major with the longest hours, chemical engineering 2nd, and the humanities are in the middle, the weak majors like business and social work and education are near the bottom. But lab hours are included, which totally skews this toward the sciences, since they have lab hours AND get credit hours for them. If you discount lab hours, humanities and sciences are pretty much on par. The highest was 22 hours per week, the lowest 10 or 11, which are pathetic. I studied three to four times as much.

https://thetab.com/us/2017/02/06/ranked-majors-work-hardest-59673

RandomUserName wrote:

Lmao I'm a chemE at UT Austin and I can confirm this

I did this at UT Austin as well. Forgot to add that I also took the course in Nuclear Reactor Engineering.

These are the classes I had to take in ChemE undergrad:

Physics I, Physics II

Quantum Mechanics

Statics

Dynamics

Engineering Materials

Chem I, Chem II

Organic Chem I, Organic Chem II plus labs.

Physical Chemistry

BioChem I, BioChem II

Calculus I, Calculus II

Multivariable and Vector Calculus

Differential Equations

Partial Differential Equations

Statistics and Probability

Computer Applications

Technical Writing

Thermodynamics

Transport Phenomena

Chemical Process Engineering

Chemical Reactor Engineering

Chemical Plant Design

Biomedical Engineering Design

Engineering Economics

+ labs for most of the engineering and science courses

+ nine humanities courses