I’m order from hardest to easiest what’s the order you would choose from mechanical engineering classes. Other engineering majors too.
It depends on what level you are referring to. The freshman/sophomore level courses and the junior/senior level courses are quite distinct from one another. I’m not an engineering major, but I’m a physics major. At the freshman/sophomore level, physics majors and engineering majors are along roughly the same track with introductory calculus and introductory calculus based physics. There were a lot of engineering majors in Calc 1 and Physics 1 with me, and there were some that didn’t make it back for Calc 2 and Physics 2. This semester I’m in Physics 3 and Calc 3, and there is a substantially smaller number of people in my classes this semester. A lot of people didn’t make it past Calc 2 or Physics 2. Those are definitely some rough courses. They’re referred to as the weed-out courses at many schools, and it’s at least somewhat true in my experience, though not intentionally.
The above mentioned “weed out” courses are very true. When my kid was debating a math major at her top school I found the list of courses and the passing rate for each course. The number one and two most failed courses were Calc 1 and Calc 2.
Really? Was it percentage of students who failed or absolute numbers who failed Calc?
^^^That’s an excellent point. I do not remember which one, but I would guess raw numbers.
I can’t find it, but I did find the grade distribution for almost every teacher in the math dept at her school since 2009. I chose Calc 2 and looked at 44 different profs/TAs. The worst breakdown was a class where 63% had a D or F. The best class had a 3% D or F rate. In 20% of the classes in the last 5 years the percentage of D’s or F’s was ~40% or worse.
I believe that. There are a lot of people that don’t make it through calc 2. It was definitely a rough class. I got an A in it, but just barely. When I was in calc 2, we had 4 people out of a class of 20 drop right after midterm, and there were a few more that didn’t make it back for calc 3.