<p>Engineering courses in the UC system are tough. Even students who have excelled in strong science and math classes in high school (and plenty of them) find the engineering course load to be a challenging one. I know that there are a few more hands-on, project-oriented engineering programs out there that might be a better fit for students who don’t enter with the strongest preparation, but I’m not sure that the UC campuses have many (or any) programs like that.</p>