<p>I plan to transfer to UCB, UCLS, or UCSD engineering school. What are the good California community colleges with good engineering transfer rate?</p>
<p>For general transfer rates take a look at:</p>
<p>Think you mean UCLA not UCLS. I was admitted to all but Berkeley's chemical engineering department and my general advice is this. It doesn't matter which CC you go to, seriously. Try to achieve a really strong GPA while taking engineering courses since the difficulty and course load can be extreme. </p>
<p>A lot of engineering classes are interrelated, especially physics and math. What this means is if you don't do well in let's say Calculus II (Integration/Series), your physics and differential equation classes will be much harder. If you don't do well in Calculus III (Multivariable), you will suffer a lot for Electricity/Magnetism. Overall, if you do well in physics, math, chemistry and programming, it'll show. In my opinion if you even do poor at a "feeder" college chances are slim to get into any engineering major. After all, most schools wouldn't accept a student who couldn't handle the course load. </p>
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<p>"good engineering transfer rate"</p>
<p>there's nothing like this...just go to the nearest community college...get good GPA, complete all the prereqs and you will get in any of the UCs</p>
<p>"A lot of engineering classes are interrelated, especially physics and math. What this means is if you don't do well in let's say Calculus II (Integration/Series), your physics and differential equation classes will be much harder. If you don't do well in Calculus III (Multivariable), you will suffer a lot for Electricity/Magnetism."</p>
<p>I don't agree with this at all....</p>
<p>I agree that if you can't integrate in Calc II, then you'll also have a tough time integrating in E&M and Differential Equations. But MV Calc isn't necessary for E&M, although some things do help you to better understand E&M (partial derivatives, surface and line integrals, etc?)</p>
<p>Thanks for the input.
I've done some research on several CC's, and they have varying numbers of engineering courses offered. SBCC had fair amount while Berkeley CC had almost no engineering courses articulated to UC's. So I don't think I should go to 'any CC'. I am wondering which CC would provide the most strong preparation in EE.
Thanks again. :)</p>
<p>Go to the CC that has the most articulated course so that you have less lower division courses to take after you transfer. Lower division major prerequisites are almost the same for all engineering majors. Namely a physics sequence, calculus sequence + differential equations + linear algebra, maybe some or all of the general chem sequence, programming sequence (do ChemE and BioE need this?). Add a biology sequence for BioE major and an O Chem sequence for both ChemE major and BioE major. Does this sound right anyone?</p>
<p>It's true that you can still get away with little knowledge of surface integrals, Green's Theorem, etc and still be able to pull off applications of physics. What it also depends on is the professor. A good professor can always make an awful book seem good and vica versa. </p>
<p>Yes, chemical engineers have to take programming and organic chemistry. Funny though for chemical engineers, it seems UCs prefer FORTRAN, an outdated programming language. I know civil engineers have lower-division courses in statics while electrical engineers have lower-division courses in circuits. Each field of engineering has its special requirements but the standard seems to be:</p>
<p>3 courses in Calculus
1 course in Linear Algebra
1 course in Differential Equations
3-4 courses in Physics (Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electricity/Magnetism and Modern)
1-2 courses in General Chemistry
1 course in Programming </p>
<p>As for the integration from Calculus II, failure of integration (such as improper for Laplace transformations) will mostly like make differential equations harder. To put it simply, math builds up, a strong foundation will make the course load easier. </p>
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