Engineering Students - Scheduling Question

Colleges and Universities A-Z Texas A&M University
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<p>Oh, and it is my understanding that the reason catalogs are like that is because of restrictions from ABET and others about having too many hours in a degree plan. My catalog has 135 hours, while an english major degree plan has 120 hours. That’s a whole extra semester difference. Plus, with that many hours in a degree plan, one usually has to take 15-17 hours semesters to finish in 4 years (unless that person comes in with significant transfer hours).</p>

<p>Another lame example is my catalog requires me to have 8 hours of aerospace technical electives, however each technical elective is 3 hours. So thus, I really have to take 9 hours (3 classes, 3 hours each) to satisfy my technical elective requirement.</p>

<p>You’ll also run into many classes that are listed as “3 hours”, which means you should meet 3 hours a week in class, however you meet for more hours/week than that. Another example of limiting the total amount of hours your degree plan carries.</p>

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<p>It really surprises me that advisers are recommending to take this Physics class at community college or in summer school. I took it last semester - yes it was a lot of work but it’s doable.</p>

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<p>My advisor told me not to take it at community college. I was going to take it back home until he made a very good point to me: If you are doing well now, why not be focused on trying for a summer internship or taking classes beyond what you major requires to gain additional knowledge that may help towards a minor/double major.</p>