Any Civil Engineers Post on this Board?

I'm studying ME. About a year from graduating.

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What is the most challenging aspect of the program material?

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Definitely the first 2 years. It's a rollercoaster. Calc 1 is easy, calc 2 is stupid hard, calc 3 is really fun and then Diff. Eq is back to stupid hard. Taking those concurrent with the 3 physics courses, chem and all those courses is not easy.

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What is the most exciting aspect?

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The good news is, after you get past those courses, it's much smoother sailing. You've still got difficult classes like fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and things of that nature but it's much more interesting. For the most part, you're using what you've learned (lots of diff eq) and applying it to actual engineering. You start your various design classes, learn to use CADs and start building more shite. It's fun. The best part is dat paycheck after graduation and working in an industry that's always evolving.

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Definitely the first 2 years. It's a rollercoaster. Calc 1 is easy, calc 2 is stupid hard, calc 3 is really fun and then Diff. Eq is back to stupid hard. Taking those concurrent with the 3 physics courses, chem and all those courses is not easy.

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I got a physics degree at UA and I agree with your assessment, save for Diff Eq. I loved it and thought it was a lot easier than Calc 2, and I think I had an easier time with it than Calc 3. But, I'll say that I didn't love Calc 3 the way I enjoyed Diff Eq, so maybe that was the difference for me.

But yeah, frick Calc 2.

No problem. And while it's true that CE is the red headed stepchild of the engineering field, we are all still way better than everyone else



































Kidding. Kind of....

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I always thought Industrial Engineers were the red head step child. Imaginary engineering and all.

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Everyone says this, but I found calc 3 to be way harder than 2. Maybe it was just the professor.

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Calc 2 is traditionally the hardest of the 4. I made it easy on myself and took it at the U of A over the summer while back home from school and transferred the credit back to my school. The U of A made it very easy and it was taught by a Grad Assistant.

Diff Eq then became the hardest for me but Calc 2 can be very hard if you take it at a good school.

Just a heads up:

Many top schools offers completely online engineering programs. It's a lot different than, say, a MBA where few, if any, top 25 schools offer completely online MBAs.

I'm not saying Missouri is a bad engineering school, but if you are going to go that route why not take advantage of the best school that you can?

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That's changing too. Duke, UNC, and others are now offering online MBAs. I'm not going to say it's the greatest way of learning but it is still an emerging field that most schools are trying to get in on. If nothing else they enjoy that extra tuition money coming in that their classrooms and facilities couldn't support.

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I followed online MBAs pretty closely up until recently and unless things have changed even Duke's isn't a "true" online MBA in that you are expected to visit both the North Carolina campus as well as some international satellite campus for certain duration of time to go along with distance learning curriculum.

Honestly, MBAs are really all about networking and shaking the right hands and it is just really tough to do that online. I hope that changes as it is something I'm interested in but only time will tell if the big-name schools really make a push for it.

Question: Why is Civil Engineering considered the redheaded stepchild when it is in fact the second oldest engineering discipline behind military engineering?