Should I become a chemical engineer or an electrical engineer?

NeoDymium
Mon, 11 May 2015 01:59:30 +0000

Take AP Chemistry, actually. That specific AP test is quite comprehensive and if you can get through it with a 5, you should be good to go if you decide to take more chemistry down the road. I recommend taking the physics series in university, because Physics I (Calc-based Mechanics) is the core of every engineering major and it is an important building block for everything that follows.

I’d say a short description of EE is that it’s circuit analysis. A lot of your classes essentially involve setting up a circuit and running currents through it then recording the results and comparing it to theory. Also incorporates E&M theory and some more unusual elements of mathematics (complex analysis, probability theory, etc). Lots of programming and tie-in to computation and computer design. It can be extremely dull sometimes but I know people who really enjoyed the major. Overall, it’s pretty similar to what undergraduate physics majors learn these days.