I have to declare a major soon, I am in the general engineering program at my school. And I am stuck between chemical and electrical. I love math, physics and chemistry, and have come trhough computer programming unharmed. I intend on going to graduate school when I am finished my bachelors, and in my career I want to be involved in research and development. basically, I would like to work in a lab/ at a desk and design and test new equipment, products etc. Also, I am NOT a hands-on, put on an over-all and crawl around in a factory type of person.What major do you think could best help me further my ambitions? Also, if I pick one, say chemical engineering, would it be easiy to get into grad school in another engineering discipline, such as electrical engineering?4 seconds ago - 3 days left to answer. Report It
i would say go chemical engineering just for the fact you make much more money coming out of college than you would as an electrical engineer. and electrical engineers are hands on people and you have to expect to get dirty so i think the choice for you in majors would def be chemical engineering. no offense just is a better option in my opinion
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Chemical engineering tends to be VERY transferable to other disciplines, at least in my experience and where I've seen friends of mine end up. I'm not sure how well it connects to electrical as I've never thought about going that route myself. . . but there actually is a fair amount of math in ChE if actually are looking for it. Neither EE or ChE are usually regarded as very easy among engineering disciplines, so you're in for a challenge either way. I got out of ChE for grad school because I didn't like the whole factory/refinery idea so much. . . and environmental engineering was more than happy to take me.
I am partial to electrical engineering, because in every field these days everything is more and more electrical or electronic. As an electrical engineer, I have worked in biotech, for refineries, on satellite components, on military ships, in nuclear power plants, and lots of other places. I am an easily bored person and my profession does not bore me.
