wat up guys,

 

 

 

i know this isn't the best forum to ask this question, but i know there's lots of people here who are in college or have degrees. (i also posted the question elsewhere...but i love this community)

 

 

 

i recently enrolled in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as an Aerospace Engineer. here is a link to the requirements for a degree:

 

http://www.aoe.vt.edu/academics/undergrad/AEcurric.php

 

 

 

however, i also was looking into CS as a possible major...here are those requirements:

 

http://www.cs.vt.edu/images/stories/und ... ksheet.pdf

 

 

 

my options were to:

 

 

 

1.) double major in CS and Aero

 

or

 

2.) Major in Aero and minor in CS

 

 

 

wat would be the overall best option for me? would it be pretty difficult to do a double major with these 2 courses? would a minor be more than enough and render a double major pointless?

Engineering programs tend to have a lot of requirements, thus making it difficult to double major. It's hard to know what is considered the norm and what is possible at your college; at my school, a ton of students double major and it's very accepted; at Rutgers, students are required to have a major and a minor; at other schools, almost no one does more than a single major.

 

 

 

My best advice is to talk to your advisor about it when you get to campus. That's what your advisor is there for :D If you find your advisor to be unhelpful, make an appointment with your dean for advice instead.

 

 

 

Also, a lot of it depends on what you want to do afterwards. It would be much more helpful to have a degree in CS in some career paths than in others :D

 

 

 

Also, don't forget that you can take elective classes in just the parts of a major that interest you, and not even bother doing an official major/minor in it :D By double majoring, you'd probably knock yourself out, and not have any room for electives, which is sad - you should be able to take a random interesting course that's not required every once in a while. Looking at the requirements for the two programs, it seems as though it would be very difficult (if not impossible) to do them both.

 

 

 

Good luck!! :D

Engineering programs tend to have a lot of requirements, thus making it difficult to double major. It's hard to know what is considered the norm and what is possible at your college; at my school, a ton of students double major and it's very accepted; at Rutgers, students are required to have a major and a minor; at other schools, almost no one does more than a single major.

 

 

 

My best advice is to talk to your advisor about it when you get to campus. That's what your advisor is there for :D If you find your advisor to be unhelpful, make an appointment with your dean for advice instead.

 

 

 

Also, a lot of it depends on what you want to do afterwards. It would be much more helpful to have a degree in CS in some career paths than in others :D

 

 

 

Also, don't forget that you can take elective classes in just the parts of a major that interest you, and not even bother doing an official major/minor in it :D By double majoring, you'd probably knock yourself out, and not have any room for electives, which is sad - you should be able to take a random interesting course that's not required every once in a while. Looking at the requirements for the two programs, it seems as though it would be very difficult (if not impossible) to do them both.

 

 

 

Good luck!! :D

 

 

 

Might not be the same for all universities, but when I was at KSU they said that double majoring with 2 engineering degrees would just add another normal year of classes onto what one degree would take and it wouldn't be too much of a change from the 4 years you were going to take already (timeschedulywise) since a lot of it is general engineering cruft or something like that.

thank you very much Miss Mad :D

 

 

 

Yeah my college advisor was not very helpful at all haha. I talked with her today and she said to choose my electives at home. i wanted to put my electives to good use (a double major or minor)...so it looks like i may email the dean.

 

 

 

the freshmen classes for CS and Aero are exactly the same...but it looks like after that it would be a real pain in the [wagon] to double major. all my electives would go towards the double

 

 

 

If i were to minor in CS, i cannot take any of the Minor courses until the Spring as they all have pre-reqs. if double majoring is not going to be an option...i will probably choose "Intro to Java" as one of my electives until the Spring

 

 

 

anyway..thanks a bunch

 

 

 

more replies please :3>

Engineering programs tend to have a lot of requirements, thus making it difficult to double major.

 

 

 

I was going to say, you can double major in engineering? Engineering courses tend to be overly condensed (Maths and Physics programs for Engineers instead of normal courses); adding another non-engineering related major would make it very difficult to handle. What do you want to do when you get out? Aerospace engineering and computer science are designed to have quite different job streams.

 

 

 

If you want to do a bit of programming for engineering related problems (rather then programming in general) why donÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t you take up some computational science courses. These courses teach you how to solve mathematical and physical problems in scientific programming languages (Matlab, Mathematica, Maple etc.) and sometimes real programming languages (like C). So not only do you get to do some programming, you also get a feel for solving problems that you may encounter in your career as an engineer.

basically...i wanted another degree to fall back when i look for a job...itll give me more opportunities and different jobs to choose from

 

 

 

but will a few courses in CS suffice? or even a minor?

 

 

 

i know plenty of people major in something...then their job has nothing to do with the degree...but i want to make it useful

A double engineering major? I don't think so. :x

 

 

 

Even if some of the classes overlap between the two majors, you'll be in college for quite a long time. Engineering majors at UCD are 180+ units (most other degrees are 70-150, with 180 units needed to graduate). I personally don't see how you're going to do two engineering majors. You'll probably have to become a super senior.

 

 

 

You can definitely try minoring in CS. It would be a lot more reasonable than having two majors in engineering!

thankee weezeey

 

 

 

i think that's what i'll do...i'll minor in CS...or maybe Mathematics

 

 

 

closed if you so wish it :wink: