<p>I am signed up for these courses for this semester. I'm in Canada so this is the equivalent of 15 credits, which is considered full time.</p>
<p>"Advanced Engineering Mathematics" (Differential Equations)
"Advanced Calculus" (Multivariate, vectors, etc.)
"Electricity and Magnetism" (This is actually the second pre-req physics course required for entry into engineering, however, I am a mature student, so I can take it while in the engineering program)
"Statics" (This course builds on Mechanics from physics).
"Machine Element and Design" Machine parts, dimensioning, tolerancing, etc.</p>
<p>I'm a little intimidated by this courseload. I might have the option of taking Advanced calculus in my summer semester (however, I will be full time in the summer too, with more heavy courses).</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>You'll be fine. 15 hours is normal. Course loads like these are unavoidable in engineering unless you come in with a lot of transfer credit or you're fine with taking longer than 4 years to graduate.</p>
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<p>Although I don't know very much about classes at your university, I think I have taken courses similar to the first three courses in your schedule. I don't know very much about statics or your machine parts class, but I bet you'll be alright. </p>
<p>A couple of comments:</p>
<p>If your differential equations class is anything like mine, it should not be too difficult. My course did not have very much meat to it--each lecture the professor pretty much read from his cookbook how to apply a method to solve a particular class of differential equations. It was not a very interesting math class, but it wasn't too difficult.</p>
<p>Is your electricity and magnetism course an introduction to E&M? If so, you should be alright, and actually, it will be good that you are taking it alongside advanced calculus. Advanced calculus should actually be titled "all the math you need to understand E&M," and later classes on E&M will expect you to have already taken and understood advanced calculus. But if your E&M course is an introductory course anything like mine, they will ease into the mathematics. Taking them alongside each other will be good because one class should aid the other. The stuff in your calculus class will help you describe the stuff in E&M, and the stuff in E&M should help you to provide a good intuition for calculus.</p>