UCLA Engineering Q&A

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Yeah, I've had Prof. Eggert for three courses. He's a bit eccentric, and his exams are very difficult because their questions are all open-ended and/or essay-based. (50% medians). :rolleyes:</p>

<p>^ yikes!</p>

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flopsy do cs/cse students typically follow the schedule given to them by the engineering school? and if they dont which classes are the ones that are usually swapped/moved around?

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<p>the sample schedule is actually set up pretty well. i'm trying to follow it as best as i can. for the sample sophomore/junior year, they try to plan it so that you only have to take one lab a quarter (which i'm trying to do rather than stack 2 labs on a quarter). </p>

<p>or they plan it out so that you would be able to take the lab (example: ee110L) the quarter after taking the lecture course (ee110). that would be better than taking ee110 08S and then taking ee110L 09W.</p>

<p>so if you just take whatever you want, like all lecture-based courses, you may end up with a painful quarter. (if you had to take cs111, cs131, and csm152a all at once, that would be brutal)</p>

<p>I'm a EE major. There are no prerequisite classes listed for EE M16 class, so I was wondering if I could take that class next quarter. This quarter I'm taking Physics 1A, CS31, Math 31B. Are those classes enough of a background for me to manage EE M16 next quarter? Or is it necessary to have taken CS32 and Phyics 1B beforehand? thanks for your help!</p>

<p>You'll be fine as long as you know some binary. It's just a bit of work, at least for me it was. At the time that I took it, I did not have any programming background and did well. I think some programming background does help with the logic that is involved in that class, but you won't be at a great disadvantage if you don't. Look at the book, if possible, to get glimpse of what to expect.</p>

<p>lajolla3: EEM16 is digital design...you don't need CS32 or Physics 1B for it...</p>

<p>wow you haven't posted in like over a month! where have you been citan?</p>

<p>^ Been trying to take over the world of course! :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Thanks flopsy!
Would you recommend Terzopoulos over Faloutsos?</p>

<p>Did anyone get that CS vs. EE soccer email? I thought it was hilarious :P</p>

<p>HAHAHA yeah jessica put it in her profile and i was like omg...</p>

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EE M16 doesn't require any background in Physics, Math or even Computer Science. This is pure binary logic and not much else. :rolleyes:</p>

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Yeah. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>I would want to talk to one of the HHSEAS academic counselors regarding taking a summer course at another UC right?</p>

<p>check assist.org as well. Not sure if that'll have translators for UC-UC but that's somewhere you should peek.</p>

<p>Nit:</p>

<p>HSSEAS</a> OASA | Engineering and CS Course Equivalents</p>

<p>No CS 32 equivalent from CSU-LA!!!!! :( I guess that sucks for people who were hoping to take it this summer.</p>

<p>So if a course isn't on there, there is no proper equivalent at the school for courses such as most of the 30 series for math or physics?</p>

<p>That's not true. It just means that the HSSEAS has not evaluated it, or has not bothered to add it to that list. There are a lot of schools in California, which have tens of engineering, math, and science courses for them to all be evaluated. For example, my circuits and programming classes had to be evaluated when I transferred, and that took about a month to get a response. That just shows how long it could take to evaluate some classes.</p>

<p>I recommend you find out as much as possible from online resources, counselors, and/or classmates about course equivalents. For example, I have heard that CSU-LA offers a CS course that is equivalent to CS 32, and people have received credit for it in the past, or so they claim to anyway.</p>

<p>whats more competitive to get into physics or mechanical engineering at ucla?</p>

<p>I've noticed Flopsy's rating a high difficulty for CS 32 and Physics 1B in previous posts, so I'm slightly worried about next quarter. </p>

<p>Is this courseload manageable for freshman spring quarter?
Physics 1B
Physics 4AL
CS 32
Math 32A</p>

<p>Taking Physics 1B without taking Math 32B simultaneously is a little bit troublesome. It helps to be able to know how to integrate volumes with rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates, which you don't learn until 32B.</p>