ElectricTech

How would you compare the engineering classes to the physics and calc classes in terms of difficulty? Would you consider the engineering classes to be more 'fun' than physics?

Mr Payne

I always seemed to think Math/Physics classes were easier than engineering. They did happen earlier in the college process, so if you studied hard your freshman year you could get some easy A's while other people weren't studying.

Undeadpaladin

What field of Engineering are you looking to go into? The first two Physics courses can form the basis of later engineering classes. So if you don't like Mechanics,Thermo, or Electric/Mag when it is covered in Physics you may not find them any more fun in later classes that cover them in more depth.

Then again an Engineering class will have more practical use and less theory, with things like design projects and group work (Depending on where you go)... so the "real world" type feeling could prove more fun to you.

ElectricTech

I'm looking into Civil Engineering.

md5fungi

Well I'm in CprE/EE and the Calc 1, 2, 3, and Physics 1 and 2 classes I took were not nearly as challenging as the core EE classes I have taken and will have to take (I hear it gets way harder; I'm only a sophomore :O).

I think Physics 2 at most universities has a lot of electrical stuff, so that might be tough for a non-EE, but I really have no idea.

aibarr

I dunno, but I always thought steel design, concrete design, and soil mechanics were pretty awesome in comparison to trying to figure out what the heck flux is...

I enjoyed my civ courses a lot more than I enjoyed the physics/calc courses that I took to make it to the civ courses. I thought physics and calc were interesting enough, and I enjoyed knowing the material once I got around to understanding it all, but I enjoyed the applicability of the material in civil engineering courses a lot more. When I took notes in my geotech course and step one of a particular procedure was to drive a 4WD SUV around the plot of land in question to see if the soil was of a wet clay consistency (my prof was not at all kidding), then that was definitely a lot more interesting to me than blocks sliding on an inclined plane.

EngineersRkool

Yeah, especially if you have to code that stuff for Matlab.

aibarr

I unfortunately did more Matlab coding in my engineering courses than I did in my math and physics courses. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... =\

jessiehl

Depends on the classes. Also the teachers.