<p>Not going to lie, as an ME student, materials was one of my EASIER classes. Sorry KarL</p>
<p>Ice cream.</p>
<p>Green tea ice cream. There’s some sitting in my freezer. I think I’ll go get it. Anybody want some?</p>
<p>I left an experiment involving a very large salmon inside of your freezer. Don’t let it scare you, and try not to knock it over.</p>
<p>Why, there’s a very large salmon in there… How odd.</p>
<p>This ice cream tastes weird.</p>
<p>Subject has ingested “ice cream”.</p>
<p>No sign of neurological symptoms.</p>
<p>Yet.</p>
<p>My hippocampus is itchy…</p>
<p>chem e hardest- enough said!</p>
<p>I am afraid to try that wine-infused sorbet you suggested, aibarr. haha</p>
<p>chem e is the hardest because it covers the most stuff.</p>
<p>there is no hardest. Difficulty does not vary universally but it depends on every person. I’m doing cheme and I honestly do not find it hard in the sense that it makes sense to me. Apply a little common sense and express logically and there it is. I believe other engineering majors have about the same approach. And I repeat, I find G.E.'s way harder because you actually have to study (or read) a lot.</p>
<p>I’m an ME and I’ll say its absolutely dependent on what you excel at and what you like, (most likely these are the same). ME is primarily physics based (thank god). In high school I took physics and noticed I enjoyed and excelled at the mechanical but not the electrical sections. This is when I decided on ME. College physics dealing with RLC alternating circuits and electromagnetism…interesting but I’ll be leaving that garbage for all the EE’s out there. Just got my dynamics and mechanics of materials books in the mail today and thats the good stuff. It’s all going to be new and difficult at first no matter which area of engineering your going into but if its interesting to you and you have the drive I don’t see why any field can’t be learned. </p>
<p>It’s very hard for me to rate them because I have only had a dose thus far of Mechanical, Electrical, and Materials. I know nuclear its exceedingly difficult so unless your the 1540 SAT guy steer clear. I can only imagine the amount of flash card memorization learning involved with bio and chemical (anatomy, organic chemistry ew). Software eng. seems to me like learning a bunch of different languages (if thats what you like great). Civil and mechanical/aeronautical really seem the easiest to me because formulas and elementary physics rule your curriculum.</p>
<p>So which one is the hardest? I’d say nuclear. Easier to easiest? Nearly impossible for me or anyone else to be correct in telling you.</p>
<p>^^ Same thing for me. I liked the mechanical aspect of physics but I absolutely hated the electricity and magnetism part because it was really difficult to understand. The hardest engineering major is entirely dependent on the person but for my own opinion I think Computer and Electrical Engineering are the hardest. I don’t think there’s an easy engineering major because they’re all difficult.</p>
<p>you could make countless arguments for or against each major, it’s impossible to say which ones harder, particularly if we’re talking ME Civl and EE</p>
<p>with regards to nuclear, I highly recommend taking a nuclear physics course or any kind of introductory modern physics course as a tech elective in undergrad or whatever </p>
<p>once you become familiar with the new (and funny sounding) vocab it’s the same old’ physics; not difficult but challenging, not complex but interesting, etc…etc…</p>
<p>How hard is materials?</p>
<p>Well tungsten is hard and talc is soft. It depends on the material. ;-)</p>
<p>I don’t think materials is as hard as ChemE or EE, but that’s because I’m not very good at math relative to most people that major in those. I think it’s a major where if you can understand concepts and visualize things you can generally work out the math since if you learn to think the right way things can become very intuitive.</p>
<p>boneh3ad, I just wanted to say that <em>I</em> thought it was funny, but I’m an engineer so I’m not sure how much it counts.</p>
<p>aibarr, it must be a UIUC/Texas thing.</p>