<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I'm about to enter UIUC in the fall in the Electrical Engineering curriculum. So to get an opinion from those that have been there/are going there: How's the coursework? What have been the hardest classes in the ECE department? How has the overall difficulty been, content-wise and grade-wise? I'd love to hear from everyone.</p>
<p>Looking forward to coming in the fall-</p>
<p>jamp</p>
<p>...Anybody?</p>
<p>You'd probably get more replies if you asked more specific questions. I'm a graduate of UIUC ECE, so I can give my input. ECE 110 and Physics 211 are the traditional freshman weeder courses. About 25% of the ECE 110 class gets a D or F, and those students are politely asked to reconsider their choice of major. Likewise, about 25-30% of Physics 211 will fail. This isn't due to a deliberately high passing threshold, but rather reflects that a significant portion of incoming students don't have the right combination of work ethic and talent to make it in Engineering. The ECE classes tend to be curved to a B-, with the average GPA just below 3.0 (due to higher grades in non-ECE classes) and a top 15% of 3.5. In general, anything above a 3.2-3.3 is a pretty good GPA.</p>
<p>It's difficult to rank the ECE courses by difficulty, since everyone is good at different things, and they're all pretty hard in general anyway. There are some very time-consuming design projects, including ECE 110, ECE 385, ECE 391, ECE 411, ECE 412, and ECE 425, to name a few.</p>