civil engineer major here. Just finished freshman year with

This post is vaguely similar to the /tv/ shitpost of "I just watch film A, did I like it?"

>>8923946
bitch fuck you answer the question

What do you have to take?
Typically speaking, people who are bad at math will struggle with Calculus II
Most people struggle with Thermodynamics or Fluid Mechanics
Heat and Mass Transfer may get you
It depends, so just show us what you gotta take anon

>>8923942
The hardest fields of Civil Engineering are the ones which requires to solve Partial Differential Equations with Computers (Finite Element Methods, Finite Difference Methods, etc)
>Partial Differential Equations is one of the STEM's hardest subjects that even Physics & Math majors struggle to Solve. Include all of below:

Hardest Required Class:
Advanced Structural Mechanics (also called Structural Analysis)
>Calculate Loads & deformation on Structures using the Euler Equation of Beams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler–Bernoulli_beam_theory). Requires good understanding of Material Strength / Mechanics of Material created by the famous Russian Engineer Timoshenko. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Timoshenko)
Hard Elective Classes or PhD research subject:
PhD level Advanced Transport Processes (Combines Fluid Mechanics, Heat & Mass Transfer.)
>Hardest Subject for Chemical Engineers, because they learn it with much more depth. Usually Taught at Easy Baby level & Watered Down for Civil Engineers.
> However if you specialize in it, the Habbit's hole is much deeper. At Deeper level, Equations can become very hard very quickly. Such as Navier-Stokes Equation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations
>It offered a US$1,000,000 prize to the first person providing a solution for the "Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness" problem. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_existence_and_smoothness) Solving it will led to even a Nobel Prize.
Aerodynamics
> Aerodynamics is also a tough sub-field of Transport Processes.
>Aerospace Engineers use it to design & model Aircrafts & Spacecrafts to fly & resist wind loads.
>However Civil Engineers need to study it for build very tall towers & skyscrapers as Burj-Dubai or One World Trade Center.
Earthquake Engineering
>Combines Structural Analysis with Geology and Mechanical Engineering's Course in Vibrations.

>>8924484
You have no clue what you're talking about.

>>8923942 >>8924484 (You)
Advanced Civil Engineering use also Tensor Calculus (Tensor Analysis).
Tensor Calculus is a Advanced Version of Linear Algebra

In Tensor Calculus also use concepts advanced Math subjects such as:
Differential Geometry, Topology, Lebesgue Integrals, Generalized Stokes Theorem ∫_∂Ω ω=∫Ω dω

Tensor Calculus was used by Albert Einstein to develop his theory of general relativity.
Einstein Field Equation is one of most famous Partial Differential Equation of Theoretical Physics written using Tensor Calculus Formulation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations

An advanced course in Material Strength formulated with Tensor Calculus are also often called Elasticity Theory.

A PhD field which combines Transport Process (Fluid Mechanics, Heat & Mass Transfer), Aerodynamics, Elasticity Theory & Structural Analysis is called **Continuum Mechanics**

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_mechanics

For Vibrations in Earthquake Engineering, in advanced levels you'll need the math studied by Electrical Engineers such as:
Complex Analysis, Fourier Analysis, (Laplace, Z, Fourier, ...-) Transforms
Vibrations and Waves are often written in Phasors, complex numbers written as Ae^(iωt+θ). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor. You will learn how to use it more in depth if you study Complex Analysis.

Continuum Mechanics formulated in Tensor Analysis + Earthquake Engineering formulated in Complex Analysis is the furthest I imagine you usually can get in Civil Engineering.

>>8924534
You can stop trying so hard.

>>8924564
I'm a Engineering Student.

My major is now MechE. But I plan to switch to a double major in ECE & Math.
I started as CivilE Major. But I found CivilE too boring. So I switched to MechE. Again find MechE boring.
So I decided to switch major to ECE+Math in the next term.

>>8923957
Don't think civil engineers really get into heat and mass or thermo

>>8924577
I feel sorry for taxpayers

>>8924534
Ya they teach or at least touch on all of that in undergrad physics

>>8925614
>Don't think civil engineers really get into heat and mass or thermo.

Usually don't. Unless you specialize in Thermal insulation or Piping (for Industrial Facilities & Plants). It's why I called them electives.

But the math and principles behind Heat & Mas s are closely related to the Fluid Mechanics studied by Civil Engineers specialized in Hydraulic engineering.

In my university the courses on Fluid Mechanics, Mass & Heat Transfer are taught by many Professors (vary at each term)

Professors from many departments, from Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, Nuclear, Naval & Petroleum Engineering Departments & even sometimes the Department of Applied math.

These Professors often work together in the same projects (usually for the Oil Industry).

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>>8924484
>>8924534
>tfw aerospace engineer
>tfw basically did civil engineering on steroids

>>8923942
A proper FEM course, one where you derive everything from scratch, can also be pretty difficult

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>>8923942
If you dont like Statics or arent good at it, then switch out of All engineering that isnt ECpE.

Probably Structures 2, Dynamics, and your 300 or 400 math elective.

me 3.27 last year and 3.23 this year

Well I'm really lazy somehow I always got the feeling of "enough", so I barely got perfect score but always barely enough for scholarship and things lol

>>8923942
Hi, I'm a /sci/ blogposter and i am v smart. i can take a double integral EASY!

My shitty state uni gives out free 4.0 gpa because no one else tries or cares but me.

i am smartest gpa in entire freshman year.

get onto the level i am, brainlets

;^P

>>8923954
Thermo, chem, and diff eq

>>8923942
the classes will be hard but the cocks you'll suck will be even harder

>>8927614
Unironically me
End my life.