<p>On average, how many hours do engineering majors study every day?</p>
<p>It depends. When I was in college, I would say 1 anywhere from 15-30 hours a week, depending on how many, and which, classes I was taking.</p>
<p>"On average, how many hours do engineering majors study every day?"</p>
<p>All of them. :)</p>
<p>How many credits do they take, usually?</p>
<p>7 hours a week per class... so I guess that would be around 28 hours for me then. Its hard to say because I tend to get easily distracted over any period of studying, and tend to spend more time than I intend to on "studying" (which invariably includes a lot of other crap too). I think you can get by with 3-5 hours (per week per class) of studying if you are right on target while you're studying.</p>
<p>The idea of having that much time available to study is simply mind boggling to me. Ironically, where I go to school people pretty much never study unless it's the day before or the day of a quiz/exam/midterm/final. We have too much homework to be able to study that kind of sheer amount (unless you count homework as study time?).</p>
<p>yea, my estimate counts homework as "studying." In fact, I do most of my studying (80%+) while doing homework.</p>
<p>yea, im not in college yet, but in my o-chem class, studying consists of doing problem sets, and then looking over them again, and then doing more problem sets, and then reading the book, and then doing more problem sets, and then some more problem sets, than do some more problem sets, this is all interspersed with about 10 email/facebook checks. </p>
<p>good thing those problem sets aren't for a grade though.</p>
<p>and how long does that took you Tboone?</p>
<p>problem sets (aka hw) is a good way to study. learn by doing. without actually doing a project yet...</p>
<p>Freshman - Junior year, probably about 5-8 hours a week per class. Now in my senior year, probably 1 hour a week per class... because I got a job and senioritis hit really bad ;-)</p>
<p>Actually, our problems sets are worth anything from 25% to 50% of our grade in a given class.</p>
<p>From Michigan
“As an engineering student, you will have a challenging course load. For each hour you spend in class you should expect to study at least 2 or more hours outside of class. It is not unusual for students to study for 35+ hours a week.”</p>
<p>I have to be honest. I got through HS without any serious studying. Then it wasn’t until my fourth semester in college when I realized that my last moment studying did not work and I ended up getting a bad grade.</p>
<p>Generally, midterms and quizzes should be easy if you do your homeworks without the solutions manual. The final should be studied for more thoroughly. With 4 engineering classes and 1 one math class, I only study ( other than for hw/lab report) on weekends. Just take good notes and understand what you write. I commute 2:20 minutes everyday, thats when I go through them.</p>
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At UCLA I spend about an hour for each hour spent in class just re-reading notes and reading the corresponding section(s) & examples in the textbook. Then I spend about another 1-1.5 hours for each hour spend in class working on problem sets. Each problem set usually takes about 6 hours to complete.</p>
<p>This is just the minimum amount of “studying” for a successful engineering student. Sometimes you may need to do extra problems in the textbook or you may want to read ahead in the textbook.</p>
<p>I advise people to study everyday. Try to study material you have learned within 48 hours. That way, material is fresh in your head. You won’t forget what you didn’t understand and you will be determined to find a way to understand it. If you follow this prescription, you won’t be pulling all nighters (overrated by the way) and studying for exams won’t take more than a day.</p>
<p>24/7 u will drown if u dont</p>
<p>Reading these other posts makes me wonder about my experience - perhaps mine is not normal. But, to say one hour per hour in class would be rediculous in my case.</p>
<p>A brief rundown of my semester so far would be like this.</p>
<p>Weeks 1-3 –> 7-20/week
Weeks 4-6 –> 30-60+/week</p>
<p>And every term the last 2 weeks before finals I can expect 60+ easily. </p>
<p>I take 18 hrs/term, so during the 60/week it’s about 3.3 hrs outside of class per hr inside. My study habbits are not very consistent though. If I don’t have exams/projects/major hw assignments, I take the time to have fun - not meticulously do hw problems until I completely understand what I’m doing… I just try to get it done.</p>
<p>Last week, for instance, I hardly slept at all. Those 60 hrs have to be put in when I’m not in class, doing school club stuff, or in the case of last week - career fairs. Out of an entire semester there are usually about 5-6 weeks that are in the 60+ range for me. Around one month into the term, right before spring/tgiving break, and before finals. </p>
<p>Everybody has different study habbits that work for them. Some, do each hw problem until they understand it - and then don’t have to do as much to prepare for an exam. Some, like me, work best under pressure and wait until the last minute - encounter a lot of all-nighters, etc. And some take a path somewhere in the middle. It also has a lot to do with how smart you are naturally, I know guys that go out just about every night of the week, hardly ever study, and do extremely well. I know others who study all the time and barely hit the average.</p>
<p>Also, here’s Purdue’s recommended study schedule (just two semesters, I don’t feel like copying the rest) for ME (they’re the only ones who have one I think)</p>
<p>Fall 2009 (3)<strong><em>Hr/Wk</em></strong>Crs
ME 200_______<strong><em>13</em></strong><strong><em>3
ME 270</em></strong><strong><em>13</em></strong><strong><em>3
ME 290</em></strong><strong><em>3</em></strong><strong><em>1
MA 261</em></strong>___<strong><em>13</em></strong><strong><em>4
PHYS 241</em></strong><strong><em>13</em></strong><strong><em>3
Gen. Ed. (GE-1)</em></strong>6_______3</p>
<p>Spr. 2010 (4)<strong><em>Hr/Wk</em></strong>Crs
ME 263 (L)<strong><em>18</em></strong><strong><em>3
ME 274</em></strong><strong><em>13</em></strong><strong><em>3
MA 262</em></strong><strong><em>13</em></strong><strong><em>4
ECE 201</em></strong><strong><em>13</em></strong> 3
ECE 207 (L)______ 5_______1</p>
<p>Shoot, in my undergrad, most weeks I probably spent roughly the same number of hours studying in class as I did out of class, but I didn’t do things like some of the people here did such as go home and reread all my notes and the chapters and do practice problems. That seems extreme. I read if it was assigned, did homework as it was assigned, and did some practice problems leading up to the exams (so exam weeks were somewhat more heavily loaded usually) and that was perfectly adequate for me.</p>
<p>Some people study a lot more than others. Some study more because they learn slower and some study less because they don’t care about learning as much. </p>
<p>My feeling is when you’re an undergraduate, your “job” is a student and you’re at college to learn. Might as well spend a lot of time on schooling. One quarter I spent about 80 hours a week studying and going to class combined, that was too much. Other quarters I spent as little as 10 hours a week outside class studying, that was too little and I was bored. Somewhere around 40 hours plus going to class felt about right.</p>
<p>In the end, it doesn’t matter if you’re a fast learner or slow learner, what matters is you get your “receipt” (diploma) for finishing college. Some of my friends who were fast learners and told me I was dumb to not pick up on “easy” concepts dropped out of college partway and now work at credit card call centers, while I fly on experimental airplanes as an engineer.</p>
<p>As a graduate student, I am taking two classes this quarter and am spending about 4 hours outside class each week working on homework. It’s an easy quarter this time around.</p>
<p>As a grad student this semester I spend about 7 hours a week in class and another 30 in the lab doing research/work and probably another 10-20 on homework depending on the week. I am super busy.</p>