Engineering, 1st/2nd year class schedule

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<p>Hey! I'm entering freshman year this fall, and though i know there's still 6 months before class starts, I'm so excited that i can't stop planning what i may want to take!</p>

<p>I would greatly appreciate it if someone can have a look at my possible class schedule and tell me what you think.. intended major: Operations Research. </p>

<p>I'm probably using AP/transfer credits to get out of</p>

<p>Math 1910
Chem 2090
Phys 1112
Phys 2213
CS 1110
Econ 1110
Math 2940</p>

<p>I want to use Math 2930 as my 3rd Math course, and CS 2800 to substitute for Phys 2214. I'm just not a physics person, and since proofs isn't my strongest thing, I'm discarding the possibility of Math 3040 (prove it!), Math 3110 (intro to analysis), or Math 3360 (applied linear algebra)</p>

<p>1st term (fall): (4 courses - 15 credits)
- MATH 1920 (4)<br>
- CS 2800 (3) co-rec: ENGRD 2110
- ENGRD 2110 (3) pre: CS 1110 (Conflict ENGRI 1101 - 10:10~11:00)
- Writing Seminar (3)
- CS 1130 (1) S/U
- PE (1) S/U</p>

<p>2nd term: (spring) (4 courses - 14 credits)
- MATH 2930 (4)<br>
- ENGRI 1101 (3) fall/spring
OR
ENGRI 1270 (3) spring
- ENGRD 2700 (3) pre: MATH 1920, MATH 2940
- Writing Seminar (3)
- PE (1) S/U</p>

<p>3rd term: (fall) (4 courses - 16 credits)</p>

<ul>
<li>ORIE 3150 (4) Financial and Managerial Accounting<br></li>
<li>ORIE 3300 (4) Optimization I<br></li>
<li>ORIE 3500 (4) Engineering Probability and Statistics II<br></li>
<li>ORIE 4580 (4) Simulation Modeling and Analysis<br></li>
</ul>

<p>4th term: (spring)
- ORIE 3120 (4) Industrial Data and Systems Analysis<br>
- ORIE 3310 (4) Optimization II<br>
- ORIE 3510 (4) Intro Engineering Stochastic Processes I<br>
- 1 liberal arts course</p>

<p>If everything goes according to planned, in 2 years i would have finished all the required courses except the 18 credit liberal arts req, the 3 ORIE electives, major approved electives, and advisor approved electives.</p>

<p>Does the class schedule look too hard? too easy? Should I take more? take less? change the sequence? Any feedback is great!</p>

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<p>Discuss this with your academic advisor. Any advice you get here will probably be largely uninformed opinion.</p>

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<p>First of all, definitely use all your transfer credits- they’re very impressive :)</p>

<p>Some notes: You can skip 1920 if you learn the material by yourself over the summer / take a placement exam here</p>

<p>You can waive the phys 2214 / cs 2800 req if you take an advanced standing exam for chem 2080 (just a repeat of AP chem in acids/bases/kinetics/equilibrium)</p>

<p>I also suggest doing some quick prep / review for theese courses before you get here - they’re gonna be tough as they’re upperlevel classes!</p>

<p>Also, you’d do CS 1132, Transition to MATLAB. CS 1130 is Transition to java, which you already know. </p>

<p>Other than that, your schedule looks great - you can easily graduate early if you want!</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>CS2800 is 95% proofs, y’know. Actually, more like 99.9%. </p>

<p>2110 also has the reputation of, erm, destroying OR majors. At least from my experience as a TA for the class. If you go into that class without remembering all your java and CS concepts, you will suffer. Especially if Bailey teaches it. </p>

<p>And of course, I can guarantee you nothing will ever go according to plan. Classes will conflict, or not even get offered. Spring classes can get switched into fall, and vice versa. I planned out my 4-year schedule too. It was quite a pointless exercise. </p>

<p>And why do you want to take all the required courses at once? They’re pretty dull (then again, most of the people I know in OR don’t actually like the subject, so it’s probably a biased notion), and taking them all at once is likely going to make you miserable… Take game theory or something more interesting. </p>

<p>Oh and this is what I tell all my OR friends: CS is the superior major. Do that instead.</p>

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<p>Thx for the reply guys! i really appreciate it. thought the thread was dead.</p>

<p>Oh no!! If CS 2800 is really proof focussed i guess i’ll take Chem 2080 as Equilibrium has stated (perhaps through self-studied, but how should I study without having any guidance?)</p>

<p>From the website, CS 2800 is mentioned as important for understanding"optimization, production scheduling, inventory management, and information technology"… Would not taking this effect my future OR courses?..</p>

<p>Thx for the great advice Equilibrium, i think i’ll try to study Math 1920 and perhaps Chem 2080 in the summer. Any advices on how i should approach these 2 courses?</p>

<p>@Ray, I simply put my potential 3rd/4th term schedule as all ORIE courses cuz i saw on the flow chart for the major, indicating 3 OR courses + 1 elective for the 5th semester. I would only do that if it’s not too hard/overwhelming. Would it be? (3~4 OR courses in 1 term)</p>

<p>Haha, ENGRD 2110 is already scaring me now. My programming foundation is solid but not great (got a 5 on Comp Sci A exam, but that was in grade 10, and i havn’t touched it since then). I think i’ll take the course and if it appears too hard, i’ll drop down to CS 1101 or something. Sounds like a good idea? Note to self: avoid bailey :)</p>

<p>Thanks again!! you guys are being very helpful. It’s nice to hear student’s opinions cuz counselors don’t often have them.</p>

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<p>If Bailey teaches this fall, you really can’t avoid him - only one prof teaches the class. And also, he’s really not that bad :slight_smile: He just has really vague hw assignments …lol</p>

<p>here’s the current math 1920 site, you can also find the old fall 2010 site, w/ old exams on blackboard (blackboard.cornell.edu)
[Math</a> 1920 Home page](<a href=“http://www.math.cornell.edu/~web1920/]Math”>http://www.math.cornell.edu/~web1920/)</p>

<p>The course is definitely not easy and the placement exam will be challenging - some good resources:
<a href=“http://www.videonote.com/cornell[/url]”>www.videonote.com/cornell</a> (look under fall 2010 videos for math 1920 lectures)
MIT OCW - 18.02 (multivariable)</p>

<p>The placement exam will probably emphasize some basic 3-d geometry like planes / lines, and definitely partial derivatives. Definitely REALLY know double, triple integrals / stoke’s / green’s / divergence theorems. A good book is Thomas’ Calculus (get an old edition (10th or 11th) to save $$)</p>

<p>As for chem 2080, get General CHemistry (an old edition) by Petrucci. Study the topics in the class (kinetics, equilibriu, etc) well. It’;s just slightly above AP chem - shouldnt be too bad.</p>

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<p>If Bailey teaches this fall, you really can’t avoid him - only one prof teaches the class. And also, he’s really not that bad :slight_smile: He just has really vague hw assignments …lol</p>

<p>here’s the current math 1920 site, you can also find the old fall 2010 site, w/ old exams on blackboard (blackboard.cornell.edu)
[Math</a> 1920 Home page](<a href=“http://www.math.cornell.edu/~web1920/]Math”>http://www.math.cornell.edu/~web1920/)</p>

<p>The course is definitely not easy and the placement exam will be challenging - some good resources:
<a href=“http://www.videonote.com/cornell[/url]”>www.videonote.com/cornell</a> (look under fall 2010 videos for math 1920 lectures)
MIT OCW - 18.02 (multivariable)</p>

<p>The placement exam will probably emphasize some basic 3-d geometry like planes / lines, and definitely partial derivatives. Definitely REALLY know double, triple integrals / stoke’s / green’s / divergence theorems. A good book is Thomas’ Calculus (get an old edition (10th or 11th) to save $$)</p>

<p>As for chem 2080, get General CHemistry (an old edition) by Petrucci. Study the topics in the class (kinetics, equilibriu, etc) well. It’;s just slightly above AP chem - shouldnt be too bad.</p>