It's all about ChemE, baby! Top of the list on the first post. ChemE's learn biology, physics, and chemistry, plus they're required to have the same basis in material science, electrical engineering, and programming that all engineers need to a small degree. I picked ChemE because it had the broadest range of both engineering and natural science in the curriculum. Plus, I've compared curricula, and it seems to me that ChemE's take more lab classes than other engineers (although that likely varies from school to school). My major in molecular biology pales in comparison to ChemE in terms of overall coolness. And in the BioE class I took, it seemed like everyone in the class who was a BioE major felt like they'd been suckered into taking a major that had ****ty job prospects. I don't hear those worries in my ChemE classes.
Just this Monday, I mentioned that I wish I knew how to use a slide rule to my boss. He got one out of his office and showed it to me, and how to use it. It was a weird one, because it was round, but the principle seems to make sense. All it is is a bunch of numbers on a log-scale axis in parallel. You set both sliding parts at zero, slide the first part to the first number you'll be multipying, and then with that first one in lock step with the second, you slide it to the second number to multiply. It works by the idea that log[a*b] = log[a] + log. That is, it adds logarithmically to give the product. Pretty cool stuff, IMNO (in my nerdy opinion).😀
