I started engineering a few years back. Due to life circumstances I had to leave for a few years. I am now able and ready t go back. I took Cal 1,2,3 and a few other engineering classes then. I’ve looked at my school’s curriculum. I don’t really need physics or chemistry for industrial engineering, but I do need math. I do remember integrals, derivatives, limits, etc, but I’m wondering how much I’ll need to remember as well as how in depth. My cousin at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville said her civil engineering degree required very little truly in depth calculus. Just derivatives and integrals without needing to know a ton about it.
Do you think it’s the same for industrial engineering? Do you think I truly need to retake all of them again? Like I said I remember the basics very well, just not really in depth.
If you took those classes and did well in them, you will remember everything you need by the time you need it. Your knowledge will never be perfect and honestly you’ll probably feel like you’re wasting your time if you retake them.
Consider the following:
a. Try the old final exams for those courses at your college.
b. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/rur/rurcii6.cgi (tests calculus 1)
c. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/rur/rurciii7.cgi (tests calculus 2)
d. http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-001-calculus-online-textbook-spring-2005/textbook/ (textbook; you can try the problems and use the textbook to review concepts that you need to review, based on the results of trying the above exams and quizzes)
If you did well in those courses, you probably just need to review a few topics rather than retaking the entire courses. The quizzes and old exams can help you figure out what you need to review.
Thanks ya’ll. I appreciate your help. I hope you’re right…
Do you know what kind of calculus you’d use in IE courses? My school seems to be more on the technical side of it all. I know some IE majors at schools are more business, but mine seems to be more math heavy and real.