Help?! Freshman classes undecided Engineering (Civil/Chemical)

aeromom
Mon, 20 May 2013 11:53:50 +0000

^ Huh, jrcsmom?! I find these two tracks very different, from the get-go. I.e., they diverge much earlier than Junior year! Civil takes CE/AEM classes and Chem takes Chem/Chem Eng’g classes. Starting in 1st semester of Fr year, if someone wants to do Chem Eng, they better pay close attention to the prereqs for classes required to continue in that track. The links that Cuttlefish put up are very helpful to see clearly these differences.

I guess it is a great idea to take both CE and Chem E 1-credit class to decide between the two, if you have the gumption to do so. You could probably only fit this in if you had AP credits for Chemistry and/or Physics, in order to have room in schedule to go down both tracks simultaneously.

These are completely different branches of eng’g. If you’re eventually going biomedical, then Chem Eng is the track to do, not Civil, IMO.