Engineering transfer to Berkeley, What should I brush up on?

Junior transfer to Berkeley as a Civil engineer. I was wondering if anyone had any tips on things I should brush up before my first semester in 3 months. Should I go over integration techniques from Calculus? Differential equations? Maybe redox reactions from chem? Any input would be most welcome, Thank you :smiley:

https://www.ce.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/assets/aao/TransferStuSamplePrg_2018.doc lists the following courses that transfer students take in the first year after transfer:

(prerequisites from http://guide.berkeley.edu/courses/civ_eng/ )

CE 11: prerequisite Chemistry 1A, Math 1A
CE C30 / ME C85: prerequisite Math 53 and 54, Physics 7A
CE 60: no prerequisites listed
CE 93: prerequisite E 7 or CS C8
E 7: prerequisite Math 1B
CS C8: no prerequisites listed

Thank you for the reply. I was wondering if you remember any particular subjects (laplace, linear expansion, eigenvalues) which were particularly useful. It would be quite a chore to review the entire curriculum of my chem1, math and physics classes, so i’m trying to narrow it down. :slight_smile:

Study as much of it as you can. The Berkeley grads that I know have had a really good grounding in theory, and if they are anything like UIUC their grad courses will have the expectation that you are similarly prepared. They are likely going to expect that you can perform in the basic material of those sciences at a high level.

I’m not sure that you need to review anything. But, if you wanted to review something, I’d say that math would be the area that I would choose.

One way of looking at engineering is that you take the principles of a field of science and describe it mathematically. You then use those mathematical relationships to interpolate, extrapolate and develope insights into that science to develop useful products. In that way of thinking the how and why aspect of the math is most important.

Engineering is also about problem solving and developing that mindset. Knowing that math is then a skill that should be second nature to you.

Thank you for all your inputs. Let’s hope I survive :slight_smile:

Don’t hope. Just do it. Make it happen.

Going into Junior year Engineering, I’d say Diff Eq will be what you need to be ready with. Integration should be from Freshman year - hopefully you don’t need much review there. I don’t recall using Linear Algebra after having the class, and my D who will be an Engineering Junior in the fall has not used it either. PDE’s are up next and I recall ODE/PDE being widely used Junior and senior year.

That’s just math. Hopefully you’re prepared on the materials/mechanics/etc that a Junior-year engineer should have. Maybe look at the standard Berkeley CivE curriculum - that’s what most others in your class will have been through, and what they will expect as a base on which to build.

I wish I had learned my Diff Eq better sophomore year. I did ok on the tests, but I didn’t learn it well enough to instinctively apply it in upperclassman courses.