It really depends on how rigorous your professors are. I found Calc II to be the most difficult of the math courses I took in my undergrad, but only barely because for Calc III we had a book switch to a more rigorous text and I switched professors to a guy who expected more out of his students.
It's possible you could experience something similar in one of your engineering courses down the road. That is, the material itself may not be more difficult than Calc II, but the professor may demand a level of rigor that makes the class more difficult for you than Calc II was. Don't let it bother you. There were people in my early math and engineering courses who were on the engineering track - most of us were accustomed to being the top student back in high school. Some people couldn't hack suddenly being in the middle of the pack and they switched majors to pursue something where they could be a top student again. Other folks just doubled-down on effort and kept chugging away at it. Out here in the job market, nobody cares past your first hire what grades you got in undergrad. Just learn the material and get the degree.
If you find pleasure in difficult success, then an education and career in engineering can be very rewarding for you. Mind you, there are lots of fields where you can find significant challenges to overcome, but one perk is that I help get to design rockets that go into space, which is what I've wanted to do since I was 12. Also, I'm up against physics, which is an opponent that doesn't deceive.
It's possible you could experience something similar in one of your engineering courses down the road. That is, the material itself may not be more difficult than Calc II, but the professor may demand a level of rigor that makes the class more difficult for you than Calc II was. Don't let it bother you. There were people in my early math and engineering courses who were on the engineering track - most of us were accustomed to being the top student back in high school. Some people couldn't hack suddenly being in the middle of the pack and they switched majors to pursue something where they could be a top student again. Other folks just doubled-down on effort and kept chugging away at it. Out here in the job market, nobody cares past your first hire what grades you got in undergrad. Just learn the material and get the degree.
If you find pleasure in difficult success, then an education and career in engineering can be very rewarding for you. Mind you, there are lots of fields where you can find significant challenges to overcome, but one perk is that I help get to design rockets that go into space, which is what I've wanted to do since I was 12. Also, I'm up against physics, which is an opponent that doesn't deceive.
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Question for Engineering majors/graduates
- 27/06/2011 08:12:43 AM
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If you can do Calc 2, you can do engineering courses, with sufficient sweat equity. *NM*
- 27/06/2011 01:38:37 PM
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Electrical Engineer here.
- 27/06/2011 02:32:14 PM
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Aerospace Engineer here
- 27/06/2011 04:45:59 PM
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Anecdotally I'd say it's usually one of the hardest classes, or maybe the first 'hard one'
- 27/06/2011 05:20:42 PM
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It's kind of hard. It could get harder. It's all hard. You can do it! *NM*
- 29/06/2011 09:18:09 PM
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