<p>Ah, so I assume 108B was what a bunch of students were working on in SEAS during the final 3 weeks of the quarter, right? The black screen with many design components.</p>
<p>We pretty much took all of SEASlab the day before our midterm and finals week. We were running simulations since it's much more expensive to create a pilot plant then let's say a model of a plane. </p>
<p>UNISIM = green background screen with a lot of connections.
The black background is EE stuff I think.</p>
<p>2 Questions.</p>
<p>1.) How many units did you graduate with, since if i remember UCLA was going to change the cirriculum for ChemE, since it required a handful of more units than other engineering majors. (Or maybe it was Berkeley...forgot, but still would like to know)</p>
<p>2.) Also, have you heard/know of any ChemE's from UCLA going onto some type of professional school, medical or law? And considering that i've heard that ChemE's have relatively low GPAs, if it's even possible?</p>
<p>Also just an FYI, TB54, this post has been a huge help for me and probably many others. So keep the information/guidance coming!</p>
<p>i'm not a chemE but i love this thread.</p>
<p>Units I graduated with:
A lot, almost 230ish. I took some extra classes like civil and environmental engineering cause I liked the environmental engineering aspect.</p>
<p>Low GPA concern:
Doesn't matter unless you're applying to pharmacy or medical school. Some law schools take into account of your major. This year, we had 2 students from 08 get into medical school and 1 into pharmacy school (class of high 30s low 40s 38ish). Chemical engineering and your GPA are like the guy who shouted doesn't taze me bro and the tazer, they don't really like each other. So if you really want to go to medical school, take another path I suggest. It's doable but you really don't need to make it so difficult on yourself.</p>
<p>Most of the time however, if you make it out with an oil company, you'll be making 6 figures within 5 years of working. If you get into a manufacturing company and have six sigma certification, you'll be making 6 figures easily. </p>
<p>Male/female ratio:
60/40 in chemical engineering almost. It's not as bad as EE where 5 girls out of a class of 100 guys. AICHE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers), the student group, is now run by females. AICHE is awesome because it provides resources and other stuff </p>
<p>Drake:
Man, 104AL this quarter was nicer but still pretty mean. Not even an A-.
The grade distribution for the Spring 2008 offering of 104AL is:</p>
<pre><code> B+ 3
B 7
B- 5
C+ 2
C 1
C- 1
</code></pre>
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<p>"If you get into a manufacturing company and have six sigma certification, you'll be making 6 figures easily"
-TB54</p>
<p>What's a six sigma certification?</p>
<p>Six</a> Sigma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>Deals with industrial/chemical/mechanical engineering. It's more used in lean manufacturing, to ensure quality products.</p>
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<p>I heard chemical engineering is for wussies on steroids. That's pretty much what they look like everytime i see them around campus.</p>
<p>Chemical Engineering: If You Can't Make it in EE</p>
<p>I kid...I kid</p>
<p>Smagala called, Mdelaros, he doesn't have any more polish sausages but he has Bavarian Bratwursts.</p>
<p>Don't forget to send me the pictures from graduation, Mdelaros, I'll still got your undie run pics, so exchange!</p>
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<p>did you follow the proposed schedule closely in your junior and senior years?
im doing the straight option</p>
<p>I've got a question on which mathematical concepts are crucial in the upper division courses in ChemE.</p>
<p>I'm doing some review of past material( ODE's, multivariable, linear algebra, etc) and any specific information would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Schedule:
Schedule is messed up. Misuk is not doing anything or telling wrong information and actually exacerbating it in my opinion.</p>
<p>102A use to be Fall only, and now some years it's Fall/Winter. Talk to AICHE officers, they have more information usually due to Monboqouette giving AICHE up to date info.</p>
<p>Material Review:
Are you taking 100, 101 or 102? </p>
<p>100 - Review your chemistry stuff, like molarity and definitions, you'll be doing a lot of unit conversions.</p>
<p>101 - Not really PDE, ODE at best. If you do a PDE, it'll probably be a Bessel Equation where you look up the answer. However, don't bother trying to solve these as BSL is a really horrible book. Rather, understand the physics behind fluid/heat/mass transfer.</p>
<p>102 - Depends on who you take it with, Orkoulas is heavy with partial derivatives. </p>
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<p>I'm taking 101, 109, 100 in the fall.</p>
<p>TB54, im not trying to hate or anything, just a question. One of my close friends from high school currently attends University of Texas and she will be a senior in the fall. She is business major (i guess bizecon over here) and for the past 2 summers, she landed huge internships. This summer, she got an internship with Microsoft that pays $35 per hour. so i dont believe Chem. Es have the highest paying jobs? i have been getting similar responses from my contacts at ucla. please elaborate.</p>
<p>If your friend is getting paid 35/hr as an internship, that's quite an amazing feature, one that many seem suspicious or congratulatory. </p>
<p>Perhaps your friend is unique and can be considered an outlier.</p>
<p>From the forum, Ibanking pays $28.8/hr, assuming they work a standard 40hr week but they don't.</p>
<p>A lot of the oil companies were paying their internships $25-28/hr if I remember right. A pro-rated $25-28/hr is equivalent to a 55k-60k/year salary. </p>
<p>If that is the case, I should say chemical engineering pays some of the highest starting salary at the BS level, ~60-75k.</p>
<p>[Engineers[/url</a>]
"Starting salaries are among the highest of all college graduates."</p>
<p>Point #2:
<a href="http://www.glassdoor.com%5B/url%5D">www.glassdoor.com](<a href="http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm%5DEngineers%5B/url">http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm)</a>
You can probably find what your friend makes or in the range, given their title This is based on full-time salary surveys. If you need a password/username, I'm pretty sure you're capable of finding it (not approving or disapproving methods rather being ambivalent about getting accounts).</p>
<p>Point #3:
I think Microsoft and Google are pretty much the hotspots where competition is extreme, they can afford to pay for the cream of the crop.</p>
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<p>Thanks for all this information. I'll be taking 10,100,101A, and 109 this comming fall.</p>
<p>thanks TB54</p>
<p>Great information, thanks! It made me jealous of your major. I wish there were posts like this for every engineering major...</p>
<p>TB54, what is your view on keeping engineering textbooks. Do you keep yours? Do you even use them as a reference while in the industry?</p>
<p>I would like to sell mines and get hundreds of dollars back before the new edition is published.</p>