Questions about being an engineering major

whydoicare
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:34:55 +0000

@providence12345 - I think your son’s best route into engineering, from a LAC, is go ahead and switch to Physics and do well. In Physics, he will have to catch up in Math anyway. Then if he does well enough, grad school in engineering with no loss of time. Two of the best engineers I know did BS Physics from a LAC, then MS EE in one case, PhD EE in the other case.

Not a big fan of the 3+2 programs. You end up with two BS/BA degrees. The BS/BA plus MS/ME is more useful in a career.

Strength of Materials is just a general sophomore-junior engineering course. Anyone with a Physics or Chemistry degree has no trouble picking up what they need from that later on. Engineers are trained to learn and keep current, not just spit back material that was “covered” in class.