<p>Hey, im going to be a freshman in the School of Engineering. I am majoring in Mechanical Engineering. </p>
<p>I saw the common curriculum and future classes. I know there is a lot of calculus, physics, chemistry, engineering design.</p>
<p>Is it as difficult as it looks and sounds?
Any Tips for Engineering majors, specifically Mechanical engineering?</p>
<p>Freshman year classes are not too hard. Engineering Design is just a lot of lame work/projects. It depends on who you have for a professor. My roommate had a really easy professor who gave out lots of extra points and scaled the midterm, final, and class. My professor was a decently hard grader and was really picky about things.</p>
<p>I'm a little nervous about my organic chemistry class this semester. I worked in a biotech company for the last two summers so I have a decent understanding of organic chemistry already, but my professor posted the syllabus and our whole grade is based on the lab and three tests. He makes it clear that there is no other way to improve your grade/there is absolutely nothing else that counts towards your grade.</p>
<p>And the physics department at Northeastern has to be one of the worst in Massachusetts. The professors are horrendous. I managed to do well because I did really well on the midterm, but lots of kids got hammered by the physics department.</p>
<p>I know I'm just a freshman (chem major, not engineering), but I took organic chem unofficially in high school for a while. It's a hard subject, but if you put the effort into it, it is alright.</p>
<p>I'm taking physics next semester. Do you know the least terrible professor that teachers physics?</p>
<p>If you can get Bala Maheshwaran for your ILS, you are golden. He is by far the best member of the physics department. He is also one of the laziest so he will only be a TA but not a professor. I had Ibrahim and he wasn't too bad, but he wrote so small and gave us no time for quizzes. A lot of people didn't show up to the lecture, but went to the ILS and did ok, so I guess it depends. You want Ibrahim over Smith (I think he is the other prof).</p>
<p>And the physics classes are different for engineering majors, physics majors, and CAS majors. I think in terms of least to most difficult it goes CAS<Eng<Phys.</p>
<p>I agree with Red Sox.. Get Bala Maheswaran for the Engineering Design/Engineering Computation if you want an easy A and a fun class.. He will teach you what needs to be taught but won't go out of the way to go in detail... If you want to learn a lot more and work hard, get Ms. Sue Freeman.</p>
<p>For physics class, Ibrahim is much better than Smith.. While Smith is not bad either, he's too damn slow so its hard to concentrate for a 9:15 physics class.. lol! The Physics department at NU really does suck though so don't expect anything great.. Ibrahim made vectors sound so damn confusing when it didn't need to be! Not the best teacher!</p>