Most difficult branch of engineering?

QCstudent
Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:32:36 +0000

Majors depend on the school. At Stony Brook, CSE(Computer Science)is known to be incredibly tough(to an extent that they had to drop a few CSE courses from the Computer Engineering program, since they couldn’t pass them).

IMHO, if a CS major has a lot of projects(the way they have it at SBU)where for a database class you are creating a social network, and Google comes to judge it(it really happens here) – then Computer Science could be considered pretty difficult.

I’ve taken about 4 EE courses, and I found them to be a joke. My CS classes however, because of all these projects, I found to be far more difficult. In fact, to be honest, I wouldn’t even classify CS as difficult. I’d just say it’s time-consuming, and requires a lot of critical thinking. Ranging from designing an advanced game, to making a Robot do what the professor requested.

Since CS here is part of the Engineering school, from my experience with students, most find it ‘difficult’. I’ve noticed they focus a lot on these massive projects.