<p>Hello all, </p>
<p>I have seen several post about answering questions about certain aspect of things related to Rutgers. However, I am here to answer questions specifically related to the Chemical Engineering major. I am an entering junior this fall. Should you have any questions, please let me know!</p>
<p>Hey, I’m an entering freshman who AP’ed out of General Chemistry. This means I’m allowed to take Organic Chem or Chemical Analysis my first semester. How hard are these courses and would you recommend that a freshman take them or should I just take an easier elective in place of Gen Chem?</p>
<p>You should take BOTH if you can. It will be a ton of work, but it’s doable. But if you had to pick a priority, I would take the Chem Analysis I over Orgo. By doing so, you will be one year ahead than most of us in the department. (Assuming you will also be one year ahead in all other core sciences). So, take the AP credit, and decide if you want to take Orgo + Analysis I together, if it seems too much, just take Analysis I, and follow the chemical engineering sequence as it shows on the curriculum. </p>
<p>Organic Chemistry was difficult, it is definitely not an easy course. You definitely have to do work to get rewards. It’s not one of those courses where you can just sleep through or not show up and still get a passing grade. </p>
<p>Analysis I is easy in my opinion, it’s just a lot of basic logical principles in process balances. What goes in comes out. If you read and do the work, it will be self explanatory and easy.</p>
<p>Hey XU701zero, I really appreciate your doing this for us! I was actually a premed major before I made my switch to engineering, so now I am thinking of taking statics, matlab, and analysis as well as multivariable calc (and, of course, a humanities course). Would this be a recommended sequence? A friend of mine told me that many engineering majors don’t take matlab and statics together–they take one in the fall and one in the spring, for example. What’s your take on this?
Thanks again!</p>
<p>Right now I’m scheduled to take:</p>
<p>Expository Writing
Honors Physics 1
Honors Multivariable Calc
Honors Intro to Engineering
Humanities elective (not sure if I’m getting my first choice or not)</p>
<p>So there’s really no room for both of those classes. Does Chemical Analysis require a lot of physics knowledge? I took AP Physics as a junior in high school, but I probably don’t remember everything and I heard physics for engineers is more in depth.</p>
<p>depends on how many credits you want to take, from what you gave it is 14 credits, chem analysis i think might be 3 so you would be up to 17. If you want this schedule be prepared to work a lot because these classes will give you a lot of out of class work. Since you seem like a honors student, you seem like you might be able to handle it. I seen people who take 17 credits but get a 2.3 ovr gpa for that semester. Think about how you see yourself in college, working hard or working avg. </p>
<p>btw, this is my opinion and i am not a chemical eng major.</p>
<p>as for anundergrad, i would take chem a. , calc 3 and statics together. Unless you know how to code somewhat, matlab might hit you hard because you have to practice and they give you hw weekly that will take time to complete. Chem analysis 1 is offered in fall only i believe so in spring u can take calc 4, chem a. 2, and matlab.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot! I may end up taking matlab, though, and dropping the humanities course…but then I would be left with only 13 credits. :S I’m a bit confused at this point, but if I delay matlab until spring, then I would have to take it with Orgo II.</p>
<p>@undergrad,</p>
<p>The combination you have is not that heavy of a course load. I recommend you take it. I have and seen others taken much heavier course loads in term of credit and difficulty and they could still balance it out. So take your time, do everything you’re suppose to do, and you will do well.</p>
<p>@ Undergrad</p>
<p>The reason I say that is because what you have listed is not the hardest combination, but it does prepare you for the actual chemical engineering course load that will come in your junior year. For example, this fall I am taking Gen Microbiology (300 level), Advanced Calc for Eng (400 level), Analysis 2 (300 level), Thermo 2 (300 level), Fluids (300 level) and linear algebra (300) level, and I am only a junior and I don’t think this combination I have is the most difficult. Therefore, prepare yourself for the future by starting early.</p>
<p>@ Rinny,</p>
<p>I don’t know what your situation is in terms of obligating to the terms of Honor, but if you get no benefit such as honors housing or anything, you don’t really <em>Need</em> to take honors version of core sciences. I took honors multivariable (I am not an honors student at rutgers) because of my previous excellent calculus sequence record, and it was so difficult, the theory and proof in that class is so intense. Later, I learned that my fellow colleagues who took regular multivariable did not do any proof in their class. I kind of wish I did not take the honors version, because in the end, it’s just more indepth of understanding of vector calculus. I find that while it is important to the rest of the mathematical concepts, there are other courses I would rather take an indepth understanding of than multivariable calculus.</p>
<p>Well, I’m in the honors engineering program, so I believe they just schedule me for the honors courses. Not sure if they’ll kick me out of the honors program if I don’t take the honors version… but if it’s really that difficult, then I might just take it easy first semester and only take those courses.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot, Xu701zero! Okay, that’s very good to hear. I’ll stick with the schedule I have, then–I guess I wasn’t too sure about what to be expecting from either statics/matlab. I’ll let you know if I have any further questions!</p>
<p>Honors housing for SOE freshmen year is one of the floors in Barr Hall. After that you guys have to option to automatically live in McCormick hall which is the Suites for Only Honors students of the different schools in rutgers nb</p>
<p>Hey, I’m not going to be a chemical engineer. But I remember you saying general chem for engineers was easy on sixflags post.
I am going to be a incoming freshmen and I heard general chemistry (for engineers) is a weed out course since the chem department is notorious for weeding out people. Any tips as to how to study and be successful in this course?</p>
<p>The chem weed out is more for General Chem 161 people, our chemistry is confined only to engineers, I don’t see why they need to weed out. (At least i have never felt like that). But the success to gen chem for engineers is just like for any other class. Attend, Read, and practice A LOT of past exams. If you can, make friends with people who is taking 161, and take their practice exams and review the answers, because their exams are usually much more extensive and it serves great purpose to prepare you for 159’s exams.</p>
<p>This may sound like a dumb question, but is there a huge difference between chemical and biochemical engineering?</p>