re: Which Engineering degree do you feel is the hardest at LSU?

Dude's trolling... fricking teachers making $140k.... riiiiight.

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given that someone chose this career path given much better other options

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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?

Government work.
The real money is in the government, not the private sector.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.