Double Majoring in Architecture and Architectural Engineering???

MaineLonghorn
Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:41:14 +0000

I was an Architectural Engineering major at UT-Austin; my dad is still a professor in that department. He has had a few students do the dual major. He told me he doesn’t understand why anyone would do it! They are SUCH different fields, as jritch pointed out. I liked the ArchE major because I knew I wanted to design BUILDINGS, not roads or wastewater treatment plants. And I had to take a couple of semesters of architectural design, which showed me that I was NOT cut out to be an architect!

Engineering employers would much prefer that you take additional engineering design classes - they could not care less if you took extra architectural design studios! There is SO much to learn in order to be a structural engineer!