Most difficult branch of engineering?

hylyfe
Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:01:02 +0000

I think like a lot of people said there are so many factors (school, program reputation, persons strength and weakness etc). However I will say EE is definitely up there is difficulty. The thing about EE is that it is so varied. I have friends in EE who are taking just completely different classes from me. What makes it hard is that you are expected to know a little about each of these fields and often the subject material will blend in problem etc.
I also think what makes EE tough is that we are expected to be very good programmers and know about computer hardware too. There is a higher expectation from an EE in programming than other fields. In my job I program a lot and am expected to have a quite high knowledge in programming. EE’s are often groomed to be sort of swiss army knifes in the field. We have to know a little of lot of stuff and then of course in depth in our field.
Also within EE there is a difficulty range. Most people would agree that analog design generally is tougher than digital design where there are so many layout tools already and so much automation. Really depends.
However honestly a lot of other engineering majors would probably be harder for ME. I just don’t have any interest in a lot of other majors, so it would be a super chore to study them.