which of these two would you major in?

[skim milk]

It took me three years to find my interests and which career path I want to head

So the two majors I'm considering is Industrial Engineering and Quantitative Sciences.

Quantitative Science is a interdisciplinary major between four departments. The college of engineering, statistics, mathematics and computer science. It includes most of the mathematics courses with 2 engineering courses and 2 computer science courses.
If I go for the QS degree, it will take me less time to graduate compared to the ISE degree (1 year difference).
However, the QS degree seems too broad and isn't as concentrated/focused as IE.
It's like a mathematics degree, it can be applied everywhere but you just don't know exactly which path

Polls never helped me so I'd prefer some comments on this topic
thanks

 

[tfinch2]

QS degree = jack-of-all trades, master of none

 

[RedCOMET]

I''m studying CoE at the moment and most of the time when I hear somebody is an IE, i usually think that they are an "Imaginary Engineer. " Not trying to be elitist or anyting. WIth that in mind, I would Think Engineers are various disciplines are still needed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, But don't IEs work with supply chain management or something like that? I would stick with the IE degree. Engineers in general do better.

On the other hand, you say the QS degree is broad. That isn't always a bad thing if you are willing to apply that degree to various types of jobs, and are willing to be a fast learning on the job.

 

[Gibson486]

Those are two different paths....Do you want to build stuff or do you want forsee how you build stuff?

 

[BChico]

Originally posted by: RedCOMET
I''m studying CoE at the moment and most of the time when I hear somebody is an IE, i usually think that they are an "Imaginary Engineer. " Not trying to be elitist or anyting. WIth that in mind, I would Think Engineers are various disciplines are still needed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, But don't IEs work with supply chain management or something like that? I would stick with the IE degree. Engineers in general do better.

On the other hand, you say the QS degree is broad. That isn't always a bad thing if you are willing to apply that degree to various types of jobs, and are willing to be a fast learning on the job.

Haha, have you taken any industrial engineering courses? If not, you have no right to rank their difficulty as compared to other engineering concentrations. I was in computer engineering for 2 years and information and systems engineering (industrial + comp sci) for the last 2. I switched out of comp e, since it didnt make any sense for me to keep taking those damn electricial engineering courses. I wanted to do consulting so I switched out. After going through the IE curriculum, I think it can really be helpful if you plan on working outside of strict engineering fields. You get all the freshman and sophmore math/science that all other engineers, and you also take courses which can be applied in real life. It really depends on what you want to do, if you want to work in business industrial is more practical, if you want to do research do a traditional engineering study, mech/chem/elec/comp. When it comes down to it they are probably only 40-50 credits different anyway, and when your major totals 135-140, its not a huge deal. Im graduating in May, and im working in NYC starting in July. For the most part, everyone in my IE class, about 35-40 already have jobs. Some are in the industrial eng. field, but I would say most are in finanace and consulting.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

 

[Reel]

Go for the industrial engineering degree. The courses I took in it were really easy. One of the courses I took in the industrial dept required some nonsense math substitute class called Matrices as a prerequisite. I went to the dept and asked them to let me in. They said I needed to take the Matrices class. I explained to them that I had taken Linear Algebra from the math dept and they backed down real fast and said that the course I wanted would be really easy then. And it was. I had the highest grades in the class on the tests while most people were struggling. Best of all, you get to tell people you are engineer. If you do some internships, I bet you could get a really cool job with that degree too.