r/ChemicalEngineering • u/Ashamed_Resolution76 • Feb 21 '25

Student Is Chem-e really tough?

So right know I am a highschooler and I was very confused what to major in but I found out about Chem-e and really liked it. I wanna know if it's easy to get a job after you graduate on the East Coast, do I need to be good at physic is my main concern???

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u/clingbat Feb 21 '25

Electrical engineering says hello. My roommate was a chemE, it wasn't any harder by his own admission.

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u/smashmilfs Feb 21 '25

I've met many engineers, computer science, electrical, mechanical, and they all agree chem E is objectively harder. It's even been raked the hardest.

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u/clingbat Feb 21 '25

Well our university has a top 10 undergrad program in the US in chemE and my roommate felt otherwise.

There's no need for a pissing contest though, they are both difficult, but there's nothing inherently objective that puts ChemE at the top.

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u/smashmilfs Feb 21 '25

I mean there is but okay. I'm not say electrical engineering isn't hard. I'm just saying chem E is objectively harder. Look it up. I understand that hard is objective but chem E is considerably more difficult

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u/clingbat Feb 21 '25

My graduate degree was in electrochemistry and I found the mix of thermo, mass transfer and pchem I had to get up to speed on easier to understand than photonics, solid state physics and advanced E&M etc. personally. But please keep telling me you know better when you haven't experienced some from both sides based on arbitrary internet lists.

Kind of blew my mind when I realized some of the math behind double diffusion layers around electrodes in electrochemical cells very closely resembled the wave equations on the EE side, except it made way more sense to me from the chem angle.