<p>I would say its hard. At my school we take a lot of classes with CE’s and EE’s for our cores. Then we do a taste of cheme. But our major has so many unknowns. You think you don’t know soil, try a human body which is next to impossible to control, unlike soil. Other engineers inventions have the potential to affect millions of people, but most don’t for biomed, anything made can affect EVERYONE who ever needs healthcare. And if something turns out to be bad, you’ve got a boatload of explaining to the human race to do. As far as work I would have to say ChemE hardest, followed by biomed due to biomeds covering of everything. Its an old wrong belief that biomed is filled with easy classes that are basic, when in fact they no where near basic.</p>
<p>bigndude:</p>
<p>“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect [or civil engineer!] can only advise his client to plant vines.” -Frank Lloyd Wright</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>As my structures professor once said, “Doctors only kill people one at a time.”</p>
<p>But yes, I forgot about the variability involved with biomeds. =) Good luck with that!</p>
<p>hopkins, this is belated but you just decribed a physics problem. physics is a class all prospective engineers take. you may have just steered hundreds of people away from being succesful mechanical engineers.</p>
<p>Hardest engineering major? That really is subjective to what you are interested in. I’m a SWE major and find it challenging but I enjoy it, and I would have a lot harder time doing ME or EE. But when I speak to ME or EE’s at my school they say they could never do all the software classes we do.</p>
<p>Though if I were to chose something…my friend is a nuclear engineering major at MIT…I’d have to vote for that =)</p>
<p>Not really- MechE in its basic form is the application of physics to design a system… The whole long blurb is a system that the engineer is trying to design and in that he has to apply physics.</p>
<p>Your post makes no sense… Since engineers do indeed have to take physics, and if they are consequently scared of what was described, then they shouldn’t even be meche’s… right?</p>
<p>So is ChemE harder than EE… Can some people provide examples to substantiate your views?</p>
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<p>I would have to disagree. I don’t think accounting comes even close to being as difficult as CS or any form of engineering (I was a business major before switching to engineering btw).</p>
<p>Yeah I was an accounting major too. And compared to EECS, it just doesn’t compare. Don’t get me wrong, ACCY is difficult, but nowhere near as difficult as EECS.</p>
<p>The hardest engineering major is the one you’re not interested in.</p>
<p>Biomedical engineering has a reputation for being fairly easy, but I don’t think I’d be able to get through one class without dropping it from disinterest.</p>
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<p>I can think of some difficult computer science problems, such as implementing systems that detect patterns of fraudulent behavior.</p>
<p>In general, this thread reminds me of another thread sometime back in a usenet music newsgroup. Someone wanted to know if it was possible to become a percussionist in a world-class orchestra without having started out learning percussion at a very young age. The person seemed to think percussion was somehow easier than violin, etc. The consensus was that percussion is just as difficult as anything else in an orchestra. Another observation that I think is useful here is that no one has spent sufficient time in more than one engineering field to have mastered them (and many do not even master their own field).</p>
<p>Probably Biomedical, because in order to get a job after you graduate you’ll need a 4.0.;)</p>
<p>aero, because you have to learn EE (avionics), Materials (composites and such), CS (control systems), Mech (thermodynamics and fluid dynamics), and Chem (propulsion and combustion).</p>
<p>I wonder what sakky would say.</p>
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<p>(…really? I’m pretty sure he talks about this in at least one of his over ten thousand posts.)</p>
<p>Well, I don’t read all ten thousand of his posts. I’ve read several of them, but sometimes I get confused with what sakky tries to say. </p>
<p>With that said, which major do you think he would say is the toughest.</p>
<p>why does it matter what major he thinks is toughest? i can write long-winded paragraphs and possess the ability to google “engineering salary statistics” at the drop of a hat. does that make me an internet expert?</p>
<p>but if you want to know, just type in “hardest engineering major” in the search bar. take your pick of the thousands of results, each with over 15 pages.</p>
<p>wait… do you feel that? he just read this post… my sakky-sense is tingling.</p>
<p>(done with much love… and a lightly seasoned crouton of frustration)</p>
<p>Begin long conversation that only ends in further disagreement…<em>wait for it</em>…<em>wait for it</em>…NOW!</p>
<p>Oh this should be good <em>gets popcorn</em></p>
<p>Wait… so apparently civil/environmental engineering has the worst image… for all you Civil Engineers out there, is it really that easy? </p>
<p>For instance, I’m looking at some environmental engineering courses and they are the likes of hydrology and fluid dynamic studies, and the like</p>
<p>You guys don’t want to know what I think.</p>