<p>I have a cousin who passed high school with pre-algebra. This is too low math for high school, I think there should be a standard that all students need to meet to pass high school. </p>
<p>My cousin wants to become a mechancial engineer. He is not that good in math but wants to become an engineer hella bad. I told him that if he really wants to then he should try his best. He is doing algebra right now in a community college and he has a math tutor. Right now he has a 86% in the class and hoping to get an A by the time Summer is over.</p>
<p>He is planning to take Summer classes and in the Winter there is also an option to take classes in Winter break. So this way he can take out four math classes a year. It is just that Cal 1 and up is not offered in Winter but those classes are offered in the Summer. </p>
<p>If any of you have any other adivce for my cousin I will be thankful.</p>
<p>All I can say is that he can finish up the other gen eds since he can’t really start the engineering related classes until his sophomore year probably, which can probably help him catch up later on or make the sequence of classes easier.</p>
<p>If this schedule of math classes goes the way I think it will go…</p>
<p>If he is bad at math then he will never survive an engineering curriculum. Engineers take about 27 credits of math in required classes this includes at least three calc classes (sometimes 4), differential equations, linear algebra, discrete math, stats & probs.</p>
<p>He was saying that after Algebra 2 he can take Stats 1. Stats 50 is the advance stats class that all engineer majors have to take. The only requirement for Stats 50 is Cal 1. Is Stat 1 worth taking or is Cal 1 enough. My cousin has not taken any stat class.</p>
<p>I have already graduated with a degree in Management Information Systems from California State University Sacramento. Right now I am in the process of getting a MBA from CSUS. </p>
<p>I have a sister and three cousins who I am very close with starting college this year. This is the reason why I am asking for some advice.</p>
<p>If he’s just behind in math rather than actually bad at it, he can definitely graduate with an engineering degree, though it will probably take him 4 and a half to 5 years to do.</p>
<p>There isn’t much advice to give except work hard and stay focused, the rest is up to him. He just has to work his way up since hes behind, it’s not like its impossible to catch up…</p>
<p>I suck at math man. I’ll graduate in spring. If he can do derivatives and integrals, the rest really doesn’t matter. It’s all look up in a book after you graduate anyways.</p>
<p>Haven’t graduated yet, but structural engineering from UCSD.</p>
<p>ODE’s, LA, and all that jazz is still used, but you can get by if you understand the main reason why they are being used. Plus, some professors teach differently than others. For example, the first half of my structural analysis class ended on Friday, and the teacher emphasized understanding the “physical nature” of the beam, truss, etc. He taught us how to look at a beam and know what is going on.</p>
<p>The second half began yesterday, and the first thing the professor did was start an ODE on a well known deflection equation (def = PL/AE), then how to use it in a stiffness matrix.</p>
<p>Now, the ODE was pretty intense, and I was lost a few times, but in the end I understood what he was doing. The matrix wasn’t hard at all, I thought LA was a nice class.</p>
<p>So I guess in my assumption that if you suck at math you can still get through, I’m saying that you suck at it yes, but you can understand the idea behind it. If I went through the entire ODE and had no idea what was going on, yeah that would be a problem. Kinda hard to graduate with that.</p>