Majoring in Engineering
Where to go from here?
According to what I have heard from some of the upperclassmen writing only gets harder. In engineering, students are expected to become more technical in their writing. Taking lab courses that require an in depth lab reports for that course. So if you happen to take two lab courses at once then you have even more writing to complete. Explanations of your findings are very important. My friend that is a Chemical Engineering major told me that she has an eight hour chemistry lab and the lab reports that she writes often take double that amount of time to complete.
I was told that if you don’t like writing now, you’ll really hate it by the time you get to the 300 level courses. Courses are even more involved and the student is expected to be able to accomplish more in a smaller amount of time. For engineering majors the freshman and sophomore years involve lots of the applied science courses, such as physics, chemistry, and mathematics, and there isn’t a lot of room to take the humanities and social sciences that are required. So, engineering students take those courses later during their academic career. The humanities courses add to the amount of writing that a student must complete.
As a first-year engineering student the majority of my writing is done for Sages. The introductory physics lab doesn’t get into the process of actually writing a lab report until 4 weeks into the course.
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