<p>Are all classes for 1st yr engineering students held in the engineering quad area?</p>
<p>I am trying to determine where the 1st yr classes wd mostly lie for a 1st yr engineering student to better pick a housing site.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure that engineering students take math and physics (chem , too?). Where are those classes held? I know engineering classes proper are held in the engineering quad, and the closest houses are a few that I had seen listed on this forum.</p>
<p>Obviously the rhet class wd not be in the engineering quad. But my question is - where wd the chem, physics, and math classes be held? I assume that the ECE 110 wd be in the eng quad. </p>
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Suggested Sequence
One way to finish in four years
First Year
Hours First Semester
3 CHEM 102 - General Chemistry I
1 CHEM 103 - General Chemistry Lab I
0 ENG 100 - Engineering Lecture
4 MATH 221 - Calculus I
4 RHET 105 - Principles of Composition
or ECE 110 - Introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering
3 Elective in social sciences or humanities
15 Total
Hours Second Semester
4 ECE 110 - Intro Electrical & Computer Engineering
or RHET 105 - Principles of Composition
3 MATH 231 - Calculus II
4 PHYS 211 - Univ Physics, Mechanics
3 Elective in social sciences or humanities
3 Free elective
17 Total
<p>I’m pretty sure the first two years of core classes aren’t held in the engineering quad. The EQ is more for junior and senior level classes. I wouldn’t worry about living somewhere close to the EQ… I just got accepted to engineering and am planning to live in the six pack.</p>
<p>Good point. I was thinking that mere logistics would be an important factor in picking housing on a big campus since theoretically one could have an 8 am class on the other side of campus. But I guess another reason to pick a house (for an engineering student) might be to “flock where there are similar birds” - that is, to house with fellow engineering students to perhaps form study groups and converse about derivatives :)</p>
<p>Haha yep. If it is extremely important that you flock where there are similar birds, then ISR is probably your best bet, assuming you don’t mind living with almost all asians and you aren’t all that into the more social aspects of the residence halls. But I’ve heard there will be engineers wherever you decide to live. And you don’t have to live with a bunch of engineers to be in study groups and talk derivatives. haha.</p>
<p>Your first year courses in math, chem, and likely rhetoric will be in the main quad which is just south of the engineering quad. Physics and engineering specific courses are in engineering quad.</p>
<p>^so it sounds like for first yr eng students there is a <em>slight</em> edge to centrally located. might need other tie breakers besides proximity to classes to help decide the best housing for engineering student - by best, i mean housing that wd best enable academic success in this difficult pgm - fellow engineering students to study with perhaps? </p>
<p>considering the long ride that uiuc has had in eng. , i wonder if the eng office has good info borne from experience on factors that incr the odds for success in their pgm? or do they throw a bunch of high achieving kids with w/ good numbers , weed 'em out, and whoever sticks, sticks? </p>
<p>Essentially the college is laid out with Business-related classes centered in the South Quad, Gen Eds in the Main/South Quad Areas, and Engineering and Physics Courses in the Engineering Quad (located North of the Main Quad). Math is centered in Altgeld Hall, at the northwest corner of the Main Quad, and Chem is in the northeast corner. The Quads themselves are right next to each other North to South.</p>
<p>When creating your schedule, you’ll want to refer to a map of the campus in order to avoid scheduling a Gen Ed course from 8-8:50 followed by a Physics course in Loomis Lab. You would be hard-pressed to make it from one to the other in 10 minutes.</p>