UCLA Engineering Q&A

<p>Are there any internships, work study, etc...on campus for freshmen or sophomore computer science majors</p>

<p>Yes, but they're really competitive and tend to favor more senior CS majors. Check the Employment Opportunities bulletin boards on the fourth floor of Boelter, your SEASNet e-mail inbox as well as the Career Center website. I wouldn't really call them internships if they're located on-campus, by the way. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>what's the difference between CS31 and PIC10A?
would it be useful at all to take any PIC class as a CSE major?</p>

<p>CS 31 is a serious weeder, required for CS/CSE/EE and other engineering majors. PIC 10A is a general-interest course, and a breadth requirement for Communications majors. No, it would not be useful to take a PIC class as a CSE major, since the CS 31/32/33 series almost completely overlaps the material taught in the PIC 10A/10B/10C series... You probably wouldn't graduate in four years if you tried doing that. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>to flopsy or other apparent experts on this forum: is there generally room for advancement in both caeer and scholarship (i.e. grad school) for aerospace engineering in california and/or UCLA?</p>

<p>heh, thanks flopsy
CS31 is required for all engineering majors now. was it like that before?</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure that's new for this year.</p>

<p>flopsy, i have a feeling i will be pwned by cs31. i barely know how to use microsoft word. what if, what if i don't so do well in that class?</p>

<p>Is there a curve for smallberg's class for CS31? And if there is what is usually the average of the class?</p>

<p>There better be, I don't think he fails easily though. I read replies on BruinWalk, and people who had 40s and 50s on exams still ended up with a C (don't know about project scores though)</p>

<p>moldau:
Prepare for 10 weeks of antisocial struggle if you don't have programming experience. I'm going through it and wow .. :( Best suggestion is to start reading the book before, program simple stuff, etc.</p>

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Then you get a C and move on.</p>

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Of course. The average is B- for the class. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Would you say CS32 is just as hard, harder, or not as hard as CS31?</p>

<p>Hey Flopsy, could you rank these majors in terms of intellectual difficulty from you point of view.</p>

<p>CS
Physics
EE/ECE/EECE/EECS
Maths</p>

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CS 32 is twice as hard as CS 31.</p>

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[ol][<em>]EE/EECE (UCLA doesn't have ECE or EECS)
[</em>]CS
[li]Physics/Math[/li][/ol]</p>

<p>Is a B- in a cs31 class considered high? I'm afraid of failing the class and having to repeat.</p>

<p>rasenganx:</p>

<p>Which lecture are you in?</p>

<p>I think lec 2?</p>

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See above. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Rasenganx:</p>

<p>This was found off of Shinnerl's page from Winter 06.</p>

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Of students who receive grades, usually about 25% receive A's, 35% receive B's, and 35% receive C's.

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<p>Hey flopsy! I'm currently a civil engineer and i'm thinking about switching to mat sci just because it seems less competitive and requires less courses (i think) do you think it's a good idea? I was never really interested in engineering but i just got in for it, so now i'm actually considering it. I'm actually thinking about switching to Math/Applied Sci what do you think is a smarter thing to do?</p>