Hi, I am planning to transfer to University of Colorado at Boulder and I wan t to major in engineering. It has a concurrent program wherein I can get my Bachelors in Architectural Engineering and Masters in Civil for five years and it also has a BS/MS program in Chemical engineering. I know being a chem. eng pays more, but I am not really into chemicals and all those processes involved with it. I even hate handling laboratory instruments. I am really interested in architecture, though. Do you guys think it would be better for me to be an arch/civil engineer? How much do you think would I be paid as soon as I graduate?
2007-11-29 10:33:55 · 4 answers · asked by calc25 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
I recommend you pursue what you like. If you love your job, you will probably do very well at it. If you do well, you will get paid well. If you do not like you job, you will probably not be happy, will not do a good job and, in time, you may not make any money at all.
Do not be too quick to disregard chemical engineering because, within any engineering area, there can be many different type of jobs.
You might also check on what kind of reputation the two programs have, how many students are in each, how do the graduates do at getting jobs. There are some real advantages being in smaller classes. If Boulder has a big ChemE department, you might have classes with hundreds of other ChemEs. If the Arch dept is small, classes will be smaller and you will have easier opportunity to get to know the professors.
Good luck
2007-11-29 10:53:04 · answer #1 · answered by Gary H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gather more info about the 2 engineering fields. You may dislike Chem Eng at the moment, however, when you get to know more about it, you might like it. Get the whole picture pertaining to each of the enginnering field you are considering, then make a choice. Lastly, do not always look at the remuneration from that engineering field. There's a balance between work effort as well as the remuneration package.
2007-11-29 12:30:43 · answer #2 · answered by Kingaroo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as a student(civil engineering), civil eng'g is good also chemical engineering, it is up to you to choose your future goal. though you like the course you wanna take it up, there are changes of mind when you get to take it, civil engineering is under the construction of bridges, building, highways, planning also,surveying etc. civil engineering is the 2nd highest course among all different engineering major because it paid them more than 100 thousand, but it depend about your studies, if you do your studies well, and you get cumlaude, you are more qualified in getting jobs. i'm not saying that when you just graduate, you have a job but it depends upon your performance because you are the ne who is creating your prducts, so don't point the money but point more about how an engineering do works because you are making a big big money hare than what you are thinkig. thank you and i hope i give something about your question.
2007-11-29 11:21:56 · answer #3 · answered by Marcial M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go with the chemical engineering! You suck at it, you hate it, but it pays more! Every time you will get a hundred dollars more on your paycheck than you would in the field you actually like, you will be reminded how smart a person you were when you sold out.
;-)
2007-11-29 10:43:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋