Material Science Eng at Berkeley

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>How difficult is it to keep a 3.5 GPA in this program? Do a lot of engineers go to grad school after 4-6 years from Berkeley engineering?</p>

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<p>I'm interested in this too (I'm majorin in MSE :P).</p>

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<p>bumptumpbu</p>

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<p>slightly difficult since your lower division requirements are still math 1a/b, 53, 54, and physics 7ab</p>

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<p>i'd disagree. i did fine in the math classes. physics 7 series kicked my ass but mostly because it's curved and i went in with no background in physics while most of the other kids knew the material to some extent. a lot of my friends slept through 7 series. i'm finding some of the upper div curves to be a little mean...</p>

<p>i'm not sure how useful this info is, but cutoff for tau beta pi (honor society) was above a 3.75, which corresponds to top 1/8 of juniors. </p>

<p>ME/MSE second year here.</p>

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<p>oo, flippityflop, can you please tell me some of your experiences at Berkeley as a MSE?</p>

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<p>i started off as just a mechie and like it quite a bit. one of our required classes is e45, intro to mat sci, and i loved it... i have a much better background with chem than i did with physics, so that's probably part of it. the other part was that i simply loved the professor (devine). instead of watering things down and telling us to just trust what we're told, he went into a lot of detail, gave us a crash course in quantum mechanics, etc etc... and then he applied all of that to real projects that he's worked on as a consultant. a lot of people hated it, but a few of us have switched over to MSE since then.</p>

<p>MSE's building, hearst mining, is really nice. best offices i've seen on campus so far. much better facilities than what we have for ME... i think MSE has a lot more money than ME.</p>

<p>i really don't know what to tell you. i can maybe answer more specific questions.</p>

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<p>Do you know anyone double majoring with MSE & CHE? Is that an insane double, or is there a decent amount of overlap? </p>

<p>-A</p>

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<p>there's a special program for ChE/MSE, same with ME/MSE, EECS/MSE, and a few others. useful site:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/current_students/announce/double.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/current_students/announce/double.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>a lot of people start off as some type of engineering, decide they like mat sci or want to do nano or something, then add MSE second semester of second year.</p>