Darwin, Vancouver, BC, Canada

AddedWednesday, July 13, 2016 at 7:53 AM

Do you think Chemistry is a good major for engineering school?

Hi, I am an university freshman in Canada majoring in Chemistry. At first, I chose chemistry because I want to go to med school but since I went to a nanotechnology conference, I have been wanting to be a nanoengineer instead. Now my question comes in: do you think Chemistry is a good major for engineering school? The graduate engineering programs I am interested in are Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Robotics Engineering and Nanoengineering (no, I am not interested in Chemical Engineering) and my passion is to build nanoscale robots using biochemical materials (synthesized using the body's own micro and macro-molecules) that can precisely deliver drugs and do internal surgery on cancerous tissue. Or do I have to transfer to physics since transferring to undergraduate engineering programs is almost impossible for me. Thank you for spending time reading this.
  • Answered Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 7:53 AM

    The branches you are interested in would require a strong mathematical background along with physics and chemistry. Chemistry alone is not sufficient. You need math and physics as one has to model process with mathematical equations, algorithms etc even if they are biological ones.

    Also you need to know that chemistry doesn't qualify you for chemical engineering either. In fact the bio engineering courses are mostly chemical engineering courses as one needs to study the transport process even in biological systems and this is taught only in chemical engineering. 

    You need to see the prerequisites reg courses for the engineering branches you mentioned, do some more research and then we can discuss again 

    suniti