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re: Which Engineering degree do you feel is the hardest at LSU?
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:13 am to Plankton
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:13 am to Plankton
quote:quote:Also overrated and not worth it, imo.
They're all hard and a lot of work.
Disagree. They're all worth it and super important.
The job market is a little oversaturated right now though.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:16 am to Jet12
Dude's trolling... fricking teachers making $140k.... riiiiight.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:18 am to BoostAddict
How am I trolling?
Teachers make a lot more than engineers while having generous pension plans.
140k > 90k.
Teachers make a lot more than engineers while having generous pension plans.
140k > 90k.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:20 am to Plankton
quote:
given that someone chose this career path given much better other options
What other options are you referring to that have a "much better" career path? Surely there are plenty of legit career paths as good as engineering but what in your mind is head and shoulders above?
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:23 am to Plankton
quote:
How am I trolling?
Teachers make a lot more than engineers while having generous pension plans.
140k > 90k.
you're ignoring a ton of factors.
The track it takes to be a Professor
tenured
research
discipline
etc.
Every professor in the world doesn't make 140,000...
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:24 am to gorillacoco
Government work.
The real money is in the government, not the private sector.
The real money is in the government, not the private sector.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:56 am to Plankton
I haven't seen a single government job that pays better than the exact same job in the private sector
This post was edited on 10/9/15 at 12:57 am
Posted on 10/9/15 at 5:23 am to geauxengineering
ChemE would be my vote and I'm an ME. Someone mentioned 2 thermos. I don't think that's the reason at all. They took ME's 2 thermos and combined them into a 5 day a week class that you finish in one semester. That makes it more difficult. It's the chemistry, at least for me personally, added on top of everything. Organic is a class used to weed out med school applicants thrown on top of engineering.
Mechanical and Electrical are next. Electrical can be difficult if you don't master diff eq, but other than that, I didn't find the subject matter tough (took some technical electives). Mechanical just hits on a lot of tough subjects pretty thoroughly.
Then there's civil and petroleum. To be honest, all the civil people that were older than me told me horror stories about statics . That's such a small part of the difficulty of other engineering degrees. I pretty much work as a petroleum engineer now. The PETE grads from LSU I know will say it wasn't that bad.
I don't know anything about environmental, biological, and industrial, so I'll arbitrarily say those are pretty much general studies degrees
Civil had the most girls, so they actually win the prize for when you are in school. Petroleum (until recently) make bank, so they win post grad.
Mechanical and Electrical are next. Electrical can be difficult if you don't master diff eq, but other than that, I didn't find the subject matter tough (took some technical electives). Mechanical just hits on a lot of tough subjects pretty thoroughly.
Then there's civil and petroleum. To be honest, all the civil people that were older than me told me horror stories about statics . That's such a small part of the difficulty of other engineering degrees. I pretty much work as a petroleum engineer now. The PETE grads from LSU I know will say it wasn't that bad.
I don't know anything about environmental, biological, and industrial, so I'll arbitrarily say those are pretty much general studies degrees
Civil had the most girls, so they actually win the prize for when you are in school. Petroleum (until recently) make bank, so they win post grad.
This post was edited on 10/9/15 at 6:05 am
Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:23 am to KG6
Flangeheads... ME and EE are pretty much similar in difficulty no matter where you go. It's an old rivalry between the sparkies and the flangeheads about who is smarter though...
Bio Med/Chem are tougher. I am guessing LSU doesn't have nuke. That is a major that should be at or near the top every time in an engineering discussion.
Bio Med/Chem are tougher. I am guessing LSU doesn't have nuke. That is a major that should be at or near the top every time in an engineering discussion.
This post was edited on 10/9/15 at 6:24 am
Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:49 am to geauxengineering
Hardest are going to be ME/ChE. They are quite different degrees so it isn't an apples to apples comparison so you can't really say which is more difficult, but they are by far the two hardest at LSU. This is with experience in graduating ME and having a bunch of ChE friends.
EE is still really difficult but is in the second tier, and CE, IE, PetE all fall in the easy category.
EE is still really difficult but is in the second tier, and CE, IE, PetE all fall in the easy category.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:50 am to Dam Guide
People who judge EE from electives they took through another engineering program are probably clueless on the difficulty. The non-EE degree electives are dumbed down a good deal from the classes you actually take in EE (at least at lsu). We used to laugh at how easy the non EE circuits class was because their hardest subject matter were things we covered in the first couple of weeks. The only class I took with other engineering majors was engineering Econ, and most of the people from other majors were borderline retarded. Granted, I was surprised at how dumb a lot of people in EE were.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:52 am to geauxengineering
Probably Chemical followed by Mechanical
Posted on 10/9/15 at 7:00 am to snoggerT
ME says the same thing to non ME majors who take thermo (besides ChemE). It's a very dumbed down version of the class. I could be wrong, no doubt, but everything I saw was setting up differential equations as per how the circuit was laid out. That's from circuits, electronics, sensors and actuators, system dynamics, and controls systems classes. I'll admit I know it doesn't scratch the surface of what am actually EE learns. And it's not easy, so I'm not trying to say that.
I found mE''s difficulty was in the wide range of physics you had to learn, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, materials science, etc.. I don't think ME is harder than EE. But it is different, obviously.
I found mE''s difficulty was in the wide range of physics you had to learn, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, materials science, etc.. I don't think ME is harder than EE. But it is different, obviously.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 7:02 am to snoggerT
If you're talking about ECON 2030, I found it hard to believe how dumb some of the people in the class were. Many of the cut and dry easy topics went right over their heads.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 7:13 am to GoldenD
Still don't know how I got out of p Chem with a B. Thanks Hopkins
I don't frick with Hamiltonian at work. Thank gawd
I don't frick with Hamiltonian at work. Thank gawd
This post was edited on 10/9/15 at 7:18 am
Posted on 10/9/15 at 7:17 am to GoldenD
quote:
If you're talking about ECON 2030
Yeah, this class was laughably easy for me. Only class I've ever taken where I ended up with over 100. Was at 7:30 and I rarely went. Teacher had to curve so hard, because so many students just could not grasp the concepts that I always made above 100 on tests. Which blew my mind, because I had a lot of other classes with those people and they didn't do that poorly in other core engineering classes.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 7:19 am to KG6
It definitely isn't hard. Just have a lot of not so bright people in there. Same with phys 2101 and 2102. Also Calc 2
This post was edited on 10/9/15 at 7:21 am
Posted on 10/9/15 at 7:20 am to Plankton
What do you do for a living? You sound like a student.
Come back and talk to the big kids once you learn how the world works outside of that campus.
Come back and talk to the big kids once you learn how the world works outside of that campus.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 7:24 am to KG6
You take that before most of the people have failed out.
I know in ME lots of people bomb out as late as fluids which is 3 years in usually. It's amazing when you sit in senior design and look around at the people there, and think about how many were in that first thermo class.
Nobody ever fails out of business management and switches to engineering. They're all tough.
I know in ME lots of people bomb out as late as fluids which is 3 years in usually. It's amazing when you sit in senior design and look around at the people there, and think about how many were in that first thermo class.
Nobody ever fails out of business management and switches to engineering. They're all tough.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 7:27 am to GregMaddux
I set the curve in ECON 2030, and found it to be very easy. I think that it being a little more real world based/using common sense killed a lot of the people in it. I think all engineering degrees (except civil) have some very difficult classes, but it's really what engineering electives you take. EE could be pretty easy if you wanted to take the easy electives/teachers, but I did the opposite for some reason.
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