<p>adding to that question, if my school never offered ap chem, will chem 20a be doable? is scerri the guy to get for this class?</p>
<p>does taking the electrical engineering biomedical option cause you to graduate later? or are there just the same amounts of courses needed as EE without an option, just different classes?</p>
<p>I'm a EE major and for the biomedical option I know that you don't need to take CS32 but you need to take Chem20B and 20L and I think a couple of LS classes. I'm not too sure about the upper divisions but I think most of them are the same and some are going to be different.</p>
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will i have an advantage in chem 20a if i took ap chem? will much of the material be similar-ish?
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Yes, you will. Some topics will be more in depth, and some new. You will learn why and how an equation works, instead of learning to memorize them in high school.</p>
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adding to that question, if my school never offered ap chem, will chem 20a be doable? is scerri the guy to get for this class?
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Chem 20A will be doable in my opinion as long as you have learned basic chemistry in high school. If you didn't take AP, you will just have to study more to learn the concepts fast. Scerri is not the best professor, but he's just hyped up because of the attention he causes (youtube video incident). The other professor teaching in the fall is decent. I would recommmend him too.</p>
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does taking the electrical engineering biomedical option cause you to graduate later? or are there just the same amounts of courses needed as EE without an option, just different classes?
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Look at the curriculum. EE biomedical option requires additional few LS courses and Chem 20BL, as rasenganx said. I believe there is one or two upper division life science classes added onto the EE requirements too. One is recommended to take 4-5 classes per quarter first year if seeking the EE-BM path. That is if you want to exit on time.</p>
<p>sonicboom: The unit requirement for degree is the same for both biomed or straight EE option. It's just that for the biomedical option instead of straight EE option, you will be taking a lot more lower division classes than upper division; 25 units to be exact. These are Chem 20B, Chem 20L, Chem 30A/AL, Life Science 2 and Life Science 3. </p>
<p>And which 25 units will you be substituting? You won't be taking CS 32, EE 121B and EE 161 as core classes. Also, the straight EE option must also choose one among six specialization fields and each of these specialization fields consists of three courses, one design course and one lab courses. The biomedical option has only one field to choose from and it consists of EE132A and EE141, which are actually core classes for the straight EE option. The remaining course, design course and lab are drawn from other EE fields and so aren't as closely related.</p>
<p>Aside from the usual graduation delay for engineers, the biomedical option is pretty relaxed so you don't have to worry about graduating later than your engineering peers.</p>
<p>For an engineering major, how does the amount of work from the calculus and physics courses compare to the amount of work for the engineering specific courses? Say, in terms of difficulty and hours per day. From what I have heard from various other colleges is about 2-4 hours per day of homework for the engineering courses. I am curious because if I go to UCLA and pursue engineering I would also like to have a minor in the humanities and still graduate in 5 years.</p>
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I doubt you will be running any major engineering apps on your comp.
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<p>ProEngineering, AutoCAD, and other AutoDesk programs are preferred to be run by a system at 1GB+, with better than integrated graphics.</p>
<p>I'll be taking CS M51A in the Fall (along with Physics 4BL, EE1, and Math 33B) and I'm deciding on which Lecture to sign up for.</p>
<p>Lec 1 is an 8 AM class with prof Ercegovac (who I heard was good)</p>
<p>Lec 3 is a 2 PM class with prof Potkonjak (who I don't know much about)</p>
<p>The question: Is CS M51A a hard class and should I choose the "better" professor at a worse time (I'm REALLY not a morning person)?</p>
<p>Any info about the course will help, thanks!</p>
<p>hi, im in L&S college right now and plan to transfer to chemical engineering.
i plan on taking math 32a, econ 1or2, and chem something. i dont know if i should take chem 20a or 20ah. i would take 20a to fulfill the engineering requirement. but there is a slight possibility that i may not transfer, and then taking 20ah would help with my honors units. Lin (prof for 20ah) sounds kind-of hard. i took ap chem and got a 5 in 10th grade. if i take 20ah and then transfer, then all that extra stress and work would be useless. should i just take 20ah anyways?</p>
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The mathematics/physics courses that engineers take are actually pretty comparable to the engineering courses themselves. They're both curved to B/B-/C+, and both assign weekly homework that is doable in a few hours (usually). Engineering courses differ in that there are long-term projects at the same time, and the narrower clique means the curves are more competitive. Getting an A in Math 31A/31B usually requires a ~90% on the exams, which is quite doable, but getting an A in CS 33 requires a ~80% on the exams, which is extremely hard. :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>Lec 1 is an 8 AM class with prof Ercegovac (who I heard was good)</p>
<p>Lec 3 is a 2 PM class with prof Potkonjak (who I don't know much about)</p>
<p>The question: Is CS M51A a hard class and should I choose the "better" professor at a worse time (I'm REALLY not a morning person)?</p>
<p>Any info about the course will help, thanks!
CS M51A is not a hard class. Compared to CS 32/33, it's like taking a math course. Take Ercegovac, even for an 8:00 AM lecture. He wrote the CS M51A textbook, and Potkonjak is ruthless and unapproachable. Don't make the same mistake I did. :rolleyes:</p>
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I'm tempted to recommend taking Chem 20AH, but since I've never taken it, and heard it's much harder than Chem 20A, I can't say for sure. Anyone take Chem 20AH who can answer this? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Thanks Flopsy :D</p>
<p>As an incomming freshmen I was wondering if I can bypass the math placement exam using my AP Calc AB test</p>
<p>depends on your score, and what you're trying to get into.</p>
<p>I got a 5, and do not know what class I should go into for engineering
On the UCLA credits site for engineering it appears that only a 5 on the BC test can waive the diagnostic exam</p>
<p>I think you can choose to get into 31B and opt out of 31A</p>
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<p>You go into Math 31B, and you don't have to take the diagnostic exam. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>What's the difficulty of EE113 with Alwan?</p>
<p>haha I just took EE113 this spring with Walker....pretty dry material...I don't ever want to see DFT again :rolleyes:</p>