Hey, I’m going through a similar experience. During last fall I got a F in Ochem and Vector Calculus. I made the mistake of retaking the two together, plus Materials, because I thought “I had bad professors, and now I know some of the material, so I’ll be fine.” I didn’t take the classes seriously and now I’ve having to drop Ochem. The biggest mistake I made is not keeping myself accountable for those F’s. I made excuses for myself, so I made no changes to my work ethic. I can only talk about myself, but maybe you are in a similar situation. If I were you I would retake the classes where you got an F or D. But most of all be realistic, if you just had another tough semester, don’t go rushing into the same situation think you are going to turn everything around and get A’s. Once again, this is not an attempt at criticizing your capabilities; I’m a firm believer that anyone can do anything with enough time and dedication. Maybe this semester take 12 units instead of 16 or 15, or whatever it might be. Engineering is right for any one, as long as you want it to be right for yourself. Yes, it may mean an extra semester, but it will most likely be worth it.
Does your school offer engineering technology? That might be a good compromise.
You’ve to do much, much better if you want a job in engineering. You may think a 2.5 GPA is OK but I have another term for it; “unemployable” The time and cost to retake classes to actually learn the material will seem like a small price to pay in the long run.
Hi my school is a very difficult school. When it comes to engineering many people are lucky to get a 2.5 GPA… I think many professors at my school make the subject harder than it really is. I do plan to retake Statics and Calculus 3 no doubt in my mind.
At my company it doesn’t matter what college it is (MIT and CalTech included), 3.0 or above and you may get looked at. Below 3.0 is the round file material. Average GPA of a college newhire around 3.5. My company is typical for its business area in that regard.
There are companies that hire applicants with sub 3.0 grads, but even for those companies a 2.5 is really pushing it.
Problem is that as a professional engineer the things you are solving aren’t usually as cut and dry as classroom problems and it MUST be right. If it isn’t right, it has to be redone and that costs money and time. Costing time and money results in unhappy customers and hits on profit. A company can’t survive for long with that happening.
I’ve heard the “my school is difficult” story before and it always is coming from those with the lower GPA students. Believe what you want.
So, OP, if you truly are driven to be an engineer, you take the steps the truly driven do. It seems the very first steps (commitment to the goal and making it from comm college to a good U,) are met. But you still need to get the right combo of strengths and the record, to achieve the goal.
It’s ok to make a mis-step. Plenty of folks do. But you have to read the signs, process rationally, and make the choices that fix issues, not plow ahead with blinders on. Confidence is good, but without the right level of results, can’t get you far.
This could be different if, say, your family owned an engineering firm or you weren’t planning to use the degree. We’re encouraging you to fix the issues before racing ahead.
And I think we’d love to hear, in a year, that you did fix them.
Hey OP, I understand if you’re school is difficult. I would really look into internships. If you have one or two by graduation, some places might overlook a sub 3.0 GPA. Sometimes the problem is that the people reading your job application a few years from now may not know how hard your school is. Good luck friend.
Thank you, everyone, for the amazing advice! I am going to retake Statics next semester! 
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I find that my Mechanics and Solids class is almost like Statics. Now that I have a different teacher I find that Mechanics and Solids are much an easier subject to understand.
“I would rather try and fail than not try at all.” -T.D Jakes
Hi, what if I don’t want to solve engineering problems as an engineer? What if I just want to build stuff? Am I in the right field? As an engineer, I was told that one doesn’t have to solve complicated problems in their field they can just build things like robots, machines and things of that nature. My uncle is a manufacturing engineer and he does not have to compute complicated math problems.
Frankly, building stuff is problem solving, unless you mean just getting your tools out and following directions. There’s a huge difference between “putting a robot together,” (which may not require an engn degree, or college,) and designing the better robot that meets project/performance goals.
Your uncle may have a team behind him that runs the math, in some way. Or his particular employer’sniche doesn’t involve running numbers. Or his job has morphed to where he handles other responsibilities. You need to look into the variety of ways an engineering education or engn understanding can be used in careers. Maybe talk to your career planning folks.