<p>ew how many units is that...</p>
<p>About 16 or 17 units. EE UDs are 4 each, and labs are 2 each.</p>
<p>do you guys know anything about professor lynch for mae 101?
and also for professor marner for 105a on their midterms and exams and such?</p>
<p>Lynch is a new professor to the MAE department, so I doubt many will know much about him. I hear he's looking for research assistants though. Look up marner on bruinwalk or something. Man he should be teaching Mae 131a this quarter NOT 105a....</p>
<p>Marner [url=<a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/detselect.aspx?termsel=08W&subareasel=MECH%26AE&idxcrs=0105A+++%5D%5Bb%5Dis%5B/b%5D%5B/url">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/detselect.aspx?termsel=08W&subareasel=MECH%26AE&idxcrs=0105A+++]**is**[/url</a>] teaching 105A this quarter. Just hope he doesn't call on you during class!</p>
<p>I said he "should" be teaching 131a, which I am taking right now. I rather have marner than the dude thats teaching it right now. Marner taught 105d last quarter, so it would make perfect sense to make him teach the next course in heat transfer. Well i was expecting him to teach 131a in this quarter since he taught 131a twice last year.</p>
<p>Hi Flopsy,</p>
<p>Questions - I'm looking to major in Chem-E @ UCLA. If I choose to take an environmental specialization, does that lengthen the amount of time it will take me to graduate, or do those classes just replace something else I would take anyways?</p>
<p>Also, I've never done any science type extracurricular activities/research/competitions in high school due to other activities. Is this normal? Would I be at a significant disadvantage in my coursework?
I'm not speaking from an admissions standpoint, but in terms of how I will do at UCLA. </p>
<p>And, how hard is it to switch majors, mainly within the engineering department?
Not that I plan to atm, but 4 years is a long time,and I assume that it would be harder to do so than at a private college. The question is how hard.</p>
<p>And - any other thoughts on UCLA's chem-e program? anything i should know, maybe the experiences of some of your peers who are in it?</p>
<p>Thanks so much in advance.</p>
<p>Fisico:</p>
<p>EE 113
EE 161
EE 110L
EE 115AL
Easy GE</p>
<p>Out of those I have taken EE113 and EE110L and have had friends take the other two. My first question is: How are you taking EE110L and 115AL at the same time? Even if you do 115AL is considerably more work than 110L. 110L by itself is a pretty easy class if you have the right TA. EE 113 is pretty easy too, but it depends on the professor. 161 I heard is pretty dry...it's electromagnetic waves so make sure that you refresh your 101 stuff. I would recommend that you drop one of the lab courses and only take four classes. Good luck.</p>
<p>crap! 110L is a prerequiste for 115AL!! I should have checked. ****!</p>
<p>
The required courses for each ChemE option just replace courses you would take anyways without an option.
No, I don't see how high school extracurriculars have any impact on mastery of college-level coursework.</p>
<p>
It's easy when you're a freshman, and most applications are accepted.</p>
<p>
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And - any other thoughts on UCLA's chem-e program? anything i should know, maybe the experiences of some of your peers who are in it?
[/quote]
It's pretty hard to graduate as a ChemE in four years, I can tell you that. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>With option, you take 1-2 courses more.</p>
<p>(75% biomedical/biomolecular, 15% no option, 5% environmental/semiconductor, 5% I changed my major to some other major)</p>
<p>Can you graduate in 4? Yes and no. </p>
<p>Yes on the physically possible part and no you won't like it.</p>
<p>A lot of 08 ChemEs hated the required following courses
101A/B/C - Transport, everybody just calls it BSL
102A/B - Thermo or Advanced Greek as a joke
103 - Separations
104A/B - Drake's lab</p>
<p>You either hated 101 or 102, one made sense to you and the other one wouldn't make sense to you. </p>
<p>103 was a funny class, near perfect homeworks but average of 60% on midterms. </p>
<p>104 most people hated Drake, esp the 104B class (out of a class of 12, everybody got Cs pretty much, highest grade was B from what I've been told and only 1-2 people got it).</p>
<p>There is a junior (whom all the seniors are like who are you?) in our senior classes, this junior is trying to graduate in 3 years. Does this junior like it? No, this junior hates it it seems.</p>
<ul>
<li>TB54</li>
</ul>
<p>Drink your olive oil baby ChemEs, half the department is Greek, take it everyday and soon ChemE will make sense to you.</p>
<p>What the ChemE Professors say:
Liao says, "nobody understands thermo..... wait nobody understands thermo completely!"</p>
<p>Monboquette says, "You like it when I say hot body?"</p>
<p>Orkoulas - "your manager wants the data, time is wasting, what do you do?" Student replies "forge the data and hope you don't get fired."</p>
<p>Hicks - "Wind is what causes waves." Student asks, "What about tsunamis?" Hicks replies, "That is one big wave. That one's kind of hard to ride."</p>
<p>Edit: Add</p>
<p>Job outlook for ChemEs is nice. Almost everybody in the graduating year has gotten job offers. Graduating classes are pretty small (30-40s) compared to MAE/EE. Materials is a red-headed stepchild, it got beaten and tossed around (graduating class of 10s?).</p>
<p>Friendship in ChemEs are numerous. Everybody knows each other by first and last name. We're making sure everbody is walking for the graduating class to represent because everybody in ChemE is close and cool (majority of people) with each other. We have socials, we drink wine and eat cheese with professors (Hicks and Monoboquette), we joke around and have major fun because in truth I don't think anybody understands ChemE but as a group you do.</p>
<p>Last I heard, for people who weren't walking, a sock full of quarters/batteries will be brought to your door and major pain will begin.</p>
<p>Edit: </p>
<p>To add, no we are not the pasty white nerd stereotype like that graduate student from Purdue (sorry to use him as the paradigm but he's the epitome of word engineer/nerd).</p>
<p>The ratio of girls/guys is 60:40. The girls aren't nerdy and do not look like guys. The guys have good hygiene and don't talk about Battlestar Galactica and how Episode <insert number="" ####=""> was totally awesome.</insert></p>
<p>If you do decide to do ChemE, you'll have fun, you'll work hard. Play hard, work hard.</p>
<ul>
<li>TB54</li>
</ul>
<p>thank you.</p>
<p>TB54, you make want to change to ChemE!</p>
<p>hahah yay for ChE.
so all that getting to know each other on a first and last name basis....starts when? cuz i sure dont right now..</p>
<p>ChemE is not for everyone. </p>
<p>There are nights where we are cursing the professors and damning them. We've dubbed "assign a lot of homework before midterm and cover it on midterm" as a Senkan after Professor Senkan himself.</p>
<p>There are nights where we actually talk to them and have a beer with them. People may hate Monoboquette for being a hard professor but he's really cool if you get to know him esp during the faculty social. He'll kick your butt in pool for a professor. I know people got drunk with Hicks and was arm wrestling him. He sponsored a wine social and paid like $500 out of his own pockets. </p>
<p>I guess it's a love/hate relationship?</p>
<p>The smartest people in the class, do we hate them? No, even if they screw up the curve, why? Because they usually are willing to help you out. The smartest guy in ChemE is a really nice guy. </p>
<p>You reap what you sow. Put in your heart and effort into ChemE, you'll be rewarded financially, academically and physically.</p>
<ul>
<li>TB54</li>
</ul>
<p>AIChE should be having it's mentorship social. They're doing a liquid nitrogen ice cream get together. Last I heard, they're trying to find how to get liquid nitrogen without a safety inspector. </p>
<p>As for the AIChE cook-off, I heard it was pretty fun.</p>
<p>im guessing junior year?
maybe sophomore?</p>
<p>I want liquid nitrogen ice-cream :"""(</p>
<p>EE is so dead in comparison.</p>
<p>TB54 would've convinced me to do ChemE too, if I was an incoming freshman...</p>
<p>Begins in junior year and end of junior year is when you get to know each other real well. Senior year is when the parties/socials/funny stories get told and when the Facebook blackmail photos get posted.</p>
<p>In your junior and senior year, everybody takes the same class pretty much. You will know who are the 5th years, who will not graduate, who dropped out because you will be in the same classes for 2 years. You move as a class.</p>
<p>Basic Outline:</p>
<p>Junior Year
Fall - CHE 101A, CHE 102A, CHE 109
Winter - CHE 101B, CHE 102B
Spring -CHE 104A, CHE 103</p>
<p>Senior Year
Fall - CHE 106, CHE 104B/D
Winter - CHE 107, CHE 108A
Spring - CHE 108B</p>
<p>CHE 103 = CHE 125 for Bio</p>
<p>The reason why you don't bond closely together as a freshman/sophmore is because you're taking the basic classes to get to the fundamentals. You're lumped in with the pre-meds, wannabe South Campus majors and what not.</p>
<p>Your junior year is when you begin the fundamentals of chemical engineering (thermodynamics, transport and separations). By that time, people will know, is chemical engineering for me? </p>
<p>Your professors will rarely change. You'll see the same professors every quarter, and you know how they work. Don't like the professor? Get over it and survive by making friends. Like the professor? Good, help others cause they will cover your ass for professors you don't like.</p>
<p>In the ChE labs, groups are always 3-4 people and you will need to work as a team because for 104A, Drake's experiments don't work, he'll teach you stuff you've never seen in your life (pressure transducers, thermocouples, pitot tubes) and you'll be asked numerous questions on it in your presentation and your reports. </p>
<p>I remember in Drake's lab we were talking about how we should have played around with the infrared temperature gun and shoot people's ass and saying damn your ass is hot. </p>
<p>It's tough and fun, akin to Heaven and Hell.</p>
<p>Funny thing, 101C and 103 were back to back. After 101c midterm, nobody showed up for 103 except like 2 people. Professor was like what happened, people said it's a flu....</p>
<ul>
<li>TB54</li>
</ul>
<p>Edit: Some professors do try to make it more fun. They know how we feel yet they also want us to challenge us academically.</p>
<p>Monoboquette gave the winner of the best poem a Starbucks card for 101B. We don't know how much the Starbucks card had on it. All I remember was, the poem was about Rayleigh number and it talked about the tyranny of the ChE department and heat conduction.</p>
<p>Hicks made us write How to save the world by using mass transport. In the end, people had some crazy ideas ranging from giant killer robots to destroying the earth up to beating the Swedish in developing a new Tempurpedic mattresses.</p>