UCLA Engineering Q&A

<p>Al Gore invented the Internet??
I have another question!</p>

<p>I come all the way from the top down so I can shout it out! hehehe</p>

<p>Damn Flopsy I missed you. Were you handing out those free lunch passes in front of the CS thing?</p>

<p>Nope. I was still watching the DARPA Grand Challenge lecture while the lunch passes were being handed out. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Ok than after that when most of the crowd had gone away were you with the 5th year when this Indian guy approached both of you to ask where the Ackerman Union was and the 5th year directed (me)?</p>

<p>hey i stayed for the darpa lecture as well</p>

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Sorry... I went back to my room after the DARPA Grand Challenge lecture. The 5th-year CS student (Shaun) informed me that he had everything under control and that my work was essentially done for the day. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>flopsy, how hard would you say it is to get a gpa over 3.0 in EE?</p>

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Getting a >3.00 GPA in Electrical Engineering is moderately difficult. I would say you have to be in the top 30-40% of the class to pull off a minimum 3.00 GPA... For reference, both of the Electrical Engineering classes I took (EE 1 and EE 2) curved the class to a B- (2.70) median which kept a 3.00 away from most students in the class. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Do a lot of engineering students choose to participate in the Freshman Clusters? Do you know if it would be more of a hassle for scheduling the require classes if an engineering student enrolled in a Freshman Cluster? Would you recommend it with the engineering course load?</p>

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<p>In short, no, yes, and no. Engineers have slightly different GE requirements and don't really need a cluster to fill it. I don't know too many engineers who took a cluster, and it will definitely make things harder to schedule as an engineer. As far as I remember, clusters don't really do a whole lot as far as filling GEs for engineers.</p>

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Nope. Freshman clusters are almost unheard of among engineering majors, at least to my knowledge. No, it would not be more of a hassle to schedule your classes if you enroll in a freshman cluster, because the typical engineering freshman schedule already includes one GE course per quarter, which coincides nicely with the one-class-per-quarter format of a cluster... No, I would not recommend it with the engineering course load, however, because these courses tend to be harder than standalone GE courses (which are precious chances to rescue your GPA) and not all of the couses within the cluster may actually count towards your HSSEAS GE requirements. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>I thought the Freshman Clusters were for Letters and Science only, or am I confusing UC's?</p>

<p>hey so i kno these questions have probably already been answered in this thread, but right now i dont have the time to go through and read em all so sorry if these are annoying questions.</p>

<p>1 - whats the difference between the comp sci major and comp sci eng? should i take the comp sci eng major if i want to be a computer engineer?</p>

<p>2 - is their a diff between UCLAs bizecon major and other schools biz major?</p>

<p>3 - how do these majors at UCLA compare to the majors and engineering schools of other schools? (any reccomendations of other good eng schools?)</p>

<p>4 - how difficult would it be to double major in both comp sci eng and bizecon?</p>

<p>5 - do u kno how i can see the classes that are in the comp sci eng major so that i can take some now at the local community college during high school and get UC credit?</p>

<p>thanks floppy, hope u get back soon!</p>

<p>its funny how Ohnonomiss "doesn't have time" to look thru just 10 pages of a thread for somethat that is presumably important to her, but flopsy is supposed to have time to answer the questions. Talk about a sense of entitlement!</p>

<p>Thank you for all your time and dedication flopsy! </p>

<p>Is it hard to get the classes you need in engineering? What about after the first two "commom" years? </p>

<p>Also, is it realistic to expect to graduate in 4 years? I've heard that into the junior year, the course load/offerings are pretty tough (if not impossible) to pull off. I believe they are modifying the plan. Any info on this?</p>

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<p>Very hard. Double majoring with any kind of engineering major and any other major is very difficult because engineering majors take so many units to graduate. You'd definitely be in here 5 years.</p>

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<p>It's probably best you take your CS classes at UCLA, but you can probably skip out of CS 31 from CC, and it'd probably be more helpful to get out of some of your math or physics prereqs at the CC level.</p>

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<p>I think it's getting harder and harder to graduate in 4 years. I'm graduating in 4 years and I got to skip lots of classes through AP credits (some of which they don't let you skip anymore) plus have stayed the same major while here. I also believe they may have added some courses to some of these majors. It's definitely possible if you take enough courses, but for the sake of your sanity, it might be better to realistically plan for 4.5-5 years of school.</p>

<p>thanks for your help, but im still a bit confused...;</p>

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<p>i dont mind staying the extra year as long as it would be worth it. but wut if i have enough AP credits during my jr and sr year of high school? wont they knock off some classes from my load at LA, at least for the first 2 years of general ed classes like history and english?</p>

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<p>i am looking to get credit for some of my general ed classes for fresh/soph year at LA. i would hopefully get these credits via ap classes and JC courses during the summer. on the UCLA site, there is a list of what classes i must take for my major, but how will i know if my AP classes will give me credit for any of the courses listed in my major? also, if i were to take courses at a local JC, how would i know which course would ecredit which class at LA? for example, u said "CS 31." what will that course be called at the local JC? thanks a ton. feedback from anyone is apreciated</p>

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<p>AP credits and CC courses will knock off some of your GE courses in LA. Which ones exactly are listed on the site. I believe they are giving less credit for AP courses now though then when I got to skip out of classes. BTW, the list of courses you can skip from APs is on the UCLA site, just search for it (make sure it is for the engineering school).</p>

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<p>Basically, I'd recommend that you email a counselor, both at your JC and at UCLA. They will know best and know exactly what correspond to what. I don't know who you would talk to at JC, but since we are both basically the same major, I recommend you email our HSSEAS degree check counselor, Misuk Kwon (<a href="mailto:misuk@ea.ucla.edu">misuk@ea.ucla.edu</a>). I've found that she is great and very helpful, and she usually responds to emails in a reasonable amount of time. Just explain your situation to her. There may be courses that they don't want you to skip from taking at UCLA, which is why I recommend actually speaking to the counselors.</p>

<p>Hi...I was wondering how hard it is to transfer from college of letters & arts to school of engineering? do you know the procedure?</p>

<p>Can you tell me a litle about civil/environmental engineering at UCLA...versus UCSD?</p>