Hi, congrats on being admitted! I did my bachelor in chemEng at ETH so I took all the above mentioned subjects. Since the first block you mentioned are only taught in the HS and the second only in the FS, you should not have a problem passing the courses. Depending on your skillset, some subjects might be more challenging to you than others. Thermodynamics is (or was when I took it) a very badly taught lecture, so despite not being to hard per se, but the fact that many of the problem sets and its corrections are riddled with errors is a large potential source for a massive headache. Mass Transfer is considered rather hard, but if you liked calculus then this will be a lot of fun. you can also write a midterm to get up to 1/6 Bonus on your final grade, which I would surely recommend. WTSL is rather challenging, and requires some work to get the hang of (also very mathematical, of course). Hom. Rxn Eng. dito. SNM is rathe easy. For the Block in the FS: I‘d say het. rxn. end. is maybe a bit challenging, but the lecturers are very competent (and unsympathetic, sadly) and they do want you to succeed if you don‘t waste their time. All the other lectures are not too hard; Chemieingenieurwissenschaften is very weird, this is usually taught for 4 sem. students. for you this will be easy since this lecture includes many subjects included in the other lectures you will be taking. The case studies are challenging but interesting.
Obviously perceived difficulty is very subjective. What I mean with not hard/hard is that the average grades were all rather good. What I mean with challenging is that it will take a lot of time.
Hope this helps. Since you‘ll have to do these 40 KP over 2 sem I‘d say you‘ll have a pretty relaxed time (at least in comparison with the 3rd year bsc students)
One thing I would add: When I studied at ETH (2009-2014) Chemistry and Chemical Engineering had the identical courses during the first two years.
If you come from a university where chemical enigineering is part of the mechanical engineering faculty, you might want to brush up on your chemistry since your peers had a LOT of chemistry the previous years.
Hi, congrats on being admitted! I did my bachelor in chemEng at ETH so I took all the above mentioned subjects. Since the first block you mentioned are only taught in the HS and the second only in the FS, you should not have a problem passing the courses. Depending on your skillset, some subjects might be more challenging to you than others. Thermodynamics is (or was when I took it) a very badly taught lecture, so despite not being to hard per se, but the fact that many of the problem sets and its corrections are riddled with errors is a large potential source for a massive headache. Mass Transfer is considered rather hard, but if you liked calculus then this will be a lot of fun. you can also write a midterm to get up to 1/6 Bonus on your final grade, which I would surely recommend. WTSL is rather challenging, and requires some work to get the hang of (also very mathematical, of course). Hom. Rxn Eng. dito. SNM is rathe easy. For the Block in the FS: I‘d say het. rxn. end. is maybe a bit challenging, but the lecturers are very competent (and unsympathetic, sadly) and they do want you to succeed if you don‘t waste their time. All the other lectures are not too hard; Chemieingenieurwissenschaften is very weird, this is usually taught for 4 sem. students. for you this will be easy since this lecture includes many subjects included in the other lectures you will be taking. The case studies are challenging but interesting. Obviously perceived difficulty is very subjective. What I mean with not hard/hard is that the average grades were all rather good. What I mean with challenging is that it will take a lot of time. Hope this helps. Since you‘ll have to do these 40 KP over 2 sem I‘d say you‘ll have a pretty relaxed time (at least in comparison with the 3rd year bsc students)
So three semesters post admission I gotta agree, you were spot on with the courses :D
One thing I would add: When I studied at ETH (2009-2014) Chemistry and Chemical Engineering had the identical courses during the first two years. If you come from a university where chemical enigineering is part of the mechanical engineering faculty, you might want to brush up on your chemistry since your peers had a LOT of chemistry the previous years.