Hi everyone,
I have a few small questions and any advice is welcomed.
First, In terms of course difficulty and workload, which would be harder, Mech or Eng Phys?
Second, Lets say I choose an option such as mgmt or soc, if i choose to drop that option so
as not to stay an extra year, would i be able to?

Thanks in advance,
Cristian.

It depends on what you enjoy doing. I love Mechanical and I was never in Eng Phys so I cannot say if it is harder or not. Eng Phys and Mechanical study different things.

In Mechanical we take a fair share of design courses along with a lot of fluids, thermo-fluid courses. You can view a description of the courses you are required to take in each program from the course calendar

I was enrolled in international studies (which is an extension of the society program). It was alright however I was not learning much out of it therefore I dropped it and decided to complete a minor instead. The nice thing is that most of the courses I took in society counted as electives and therefore I completed all the electives I needed to take in a straight B. Eng degree. Therefore to answer your question, yes you can drop management or society without any issue.

Eng Phys is a mix of physics and engineering and a lot of what they do is electrical based courses. I'd personally go with Mech if I was debating between the two mostly because of the jobs out there!
Can't comment on the course load, I'd say Eng Phys might be harder from what I hear

Thank you for the information, one last thing however. I love physics in all aspects (including nuclear and abstract physics) ASIDE from electricity and magnetism. However when looking at the curriculum for Mech, i saw it has a lot of courses related to the first year year's materials courses(dealing with stress/strain, etc.). I would just like to clarify if that is the case since I didn't enjoy that very much this year. Do you think Mech would be more interesting in my perspective?

there's only about 4 courses required that focus heavily on mechanics (2p04, 3a03, 3m03, 3e05).

it comes up a lot yes in the following courses where most of the theory is based on force calculations of materials and knowing when components will fail:
Mech Eng 2P04 - Statics and Mechanics of Materials
Mech Eng 3A03 - Engineering Mechanics (continuation of the above course)
Mech Eng 3E05 - Mechanical Engineering Design II
Matls 3M03 - Mechanical Behavior of Materials (a little)
Mech Eng 3M03 - Composite laboratory (only 1 or 2 labs include this theory)
Mech Eng 3C03 - Manufacturing (very little)

I think I covered all of the courses which are predominantly based around this theory. However you take an equivalent number of courses based on thermo-fluids stream which I find equally to more interesting

Gahh you beat me to it forever0zero lol

Originally Posted by cristian

Thank you for the information, one last thing however. I love physics in all aspects (including nuclear and abstract physics) ASIDE from electricity and magnetism. However when looking at the curriculum for Mech, i saw it has a lot of courses related to the first year year's materials courses(dealing with stress/strain, etc.). I would just like to clarify if that is the case since I didn't enjoy that very much this year. Do you think Mech would be more interesting in my perspective?

In that case, I think you would be a perfect candidate for eng phys
Good luck!

Thank You very much. Also if someone doesn't mind answering, would you say I'd be suited for civil as well? I'm just curious since all three of these were my top contenders(I do have the marks for all of them) and I was slightly uncertain as to what would best suit me.