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Posted on 10/9/15 at 1:41 pm to Gaston
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Depends what you focus on in each. There's a huge difference in a power degree in EE and a digital signal processing one.
- EE (at least at LSU) is the only engineering degree where you don't take any classes from other engineering degree programs due to how broad it is, so the people ranking it low on the difficulty scale probably don't know much about it (or took non EE major EE classes). As you said, Signals/Microprocessors is very hard, but power is on the easier side of the EE degree. Even within power, it can be very difficult or hard depending on the electives you take and the teachers you take. Also, whoever said they had Rabalais...he's one of the most worthless teachers in the program.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 1:53 pm to snoggerT
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Rabalais...he's one of the most worthless teachers in the program.
DeSouza
Posted on 10/9/15 at 3:03 pm to snoggerT
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Rabalais...he's THE most worthless teachers in the program.
FIFY
Had the guy for circuits. I'm not sure he even knew how to solve his own problems, and he even had mistakes on the test where he left out critical information or didn't have the correct answer as an option. When the test are in the testing center, you're shite out of luck because they can't do anything about it.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 3:06 pm to jimbeam
quote:A bunch of Chemical Engineers, apparently.
Who will build the bridges?
Posted on 10/9/15 at 3:26 pm to KG6
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Rabalais...he's one of the most worthless teachers in the program.
DeSouza
hahaha I had a circuits test with Rabalais before it went to the testing center. He handed out 3 versions of a test:A,B, and C. Test A had the answer key for the first 13 of the 20 total questions. He had to discard all those questions for everyone in the class...big fubar.
DeSouza had a serious (is there going to be a fight) outburst in our electronics class because a student corrected him when working a homework problem and he thought he was purposely being mocked.
Yes, I'm still bitter the EE kids get graded separately (pronounced: "easier") by DeSouza in combined senior design and can create an "autonomous" lawnmower by making it remote controlled and fooling the panel of pissing match experts
Posted on 10/9/15 at 3:32 pm to Al Dente
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my course load was more demanding...
Absolutely proving the earlier poster that said every engineer will claim the most difficult curriculum is the one they graduated in. All I know is if one bases it on average compensation as to how the degree is valued, us ChE's usually win out.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 3:33 pm to Sgt_Lincoln_Osiris
Hardest class I took as a cheme was kinetics/reactor design, I wouldn't wish that upon anyone.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 3:44 pm to Sgt_Lincoln_Osiris
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Yes, I'm still bitter the EE kids get graded separately (pronounced: "easier") by DeSouza in combined senior design and can create an "autonomous" lawnmower by making it remote controlled and fooling the panel of pissing match experts
The autonomous lawnmower hasn't been executed well the past few years for sure. The panel is so full of shite, they are like sharks with blood in the water over the stupidest crap.
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if one bases it on average compensation as to how the degree is valued, us ChE's usually win out.
You have to look at regional statistics if you're comparing them since MEs elsewhere don't make as much while most of LSU's ChEs go into refineries, plants, or upstream o&g locally. Also, I've never seen a publishing that didn't have PetEs with the highest average starting salary. If you're talking midcareer or something, the water is murky.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 3:46 pm to hiltacular
My oldest son is taking Kinetics right now. I at least took it in the Spring semester, not during football season. I have to remind him about once a week-what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. That, Difficult Equations and the PChem semester of Quantum Mechanics, wave functions and all that crap, have to be amongst the worst college undergrad courses offered. I still 
more than 30 years later just thinking about them.
more than 30 years later just thinking about them. 
Posted on 10/9/15 at 3:48 pm to GoldenD
In the good times, the PetE's start out a lot higher. In lean times like right now, they start out unemployed.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 5:25 pm to shimanocurado
What I am curious about is this : Why is it so hard to earn a BS in Engineering for any of the primary disciplines (EE, ME, ChemE), however earning an MS in any of the aforementioned fields is not as difficult?
Is there some type of political or workplace reason for this.
NOTE: Chemical seems to be the hardest based on the heat transfer equations I have seen. This is coming from someone with a Physics BS, but honestly I equate Heat Transfer principles being as difficult as Quantum Mechanics. I am referring to my studies at LaTech for that comparison.
Is there some type of political or workplace reason for this.
NOTE: Chemical seems to be the hardest based on the heat transfer equations I have seen. This is coming from someone with a Physics BS, but honestly I equate Heat Transfer principles being as difficult as Quantum Mechanics. I am referring to my studies at LaTech for that comparison.
This post was edited on 10/9/15 at 5:31 pm
Posted on 10/9/15 at 5:48 pm to volod
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Volod
Oh god
Posted on 10/9/15 at 5:50 pm to TulaneUVA
Just my 2 cents
I'm a MechE and I think ChemE is hardest but ME is slightly behind it.
Biomedical engineering
EE, Comp Eng, and computer science have to be somewhere in the middle
PetE
CivE
Industrial
But me personally, I hate chemistry, elevctrical applications, and programming. EE, compE, and CS seem hard as shite
I'm a MechE and I think ChemE is hardest but ME is slightly behind it.
Biomedical engineering
EE, Comp Eng, and computer science have to be somewhere in the middle
PetE
CivE
Industrial
But me personally, I hate chemistry, elevctrical applications, and programming. EE, compE, and CS seem hard as shite
Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:08 pm to TulaneUVA
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But me personally, I hate chemistry, elevctrical applications, and programming. EE, compE, and CS seem hard as shite
Just so you know, I know someone with a BS in ME from LSU who is pursing his MS at SU.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:14 pm to volod
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however earning an MS in any of the aforementioned fields is not as difficult?
By that point you've learned proper study habits and know the professor well due to small class sizes. Generally, you should already know the basic concepts and you're just building on them in more detail so the hardest part is over.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 8:12 pm to Plankton
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Physics, Math, and Chemistry are by far the most difficult to get a Doctorate in. Only people with truly special intellectual ability will succeed in pursuing one.
That's one hell of a blanket statement.
Which of those subjects did you do your PhD in?
Posted on 10/9/15 at 9:48 pm to CFDoc
I'm in mechanical... It's the worst the thing you can about imagine
Posted on 10/9/15 at 10:03 pm to CFDoc
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That's one hell of a blanket statement.
Which of those subjects did you do your PhD in?
I have a BS in Mathematics, but I could never do a PhD. Those guys are head and shoulders above the rest of academia, the ones that finish at least.
I'm currently in the financial industry though looking to switch over to government work. I want to either teach or become a garbage man so that I can make at least $140k and have a great pension plan.
The barrier of entry is one of the toughest, which is why I'm having trouble switching over at the moment.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 10:16 pm to Plankton
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I have a BS in Mathematics, but I could never do a PhD. Those guys are head and shoulders above the rest of academia, the ones that finish at least.
Some are, some aren't.
The degree itself is not near the blanket identifier of knowledge you're giving it credit.
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