Post your schedule -- SP2009

[dark_drake]

Do I know what classes I'm going to take? Not really. Could it change? Probably. Anyway, I'm registered for:

Biomedical Engineering
Unit Operations
Unit Operations Lab
Quantitative Analysis (Chemistry course)
Applied math for physical chemistry (Chemistry course)
Process Simulation and Economics

I might drop biomedical engineering in favor of numerical analysis or a polymers course. I can't decide, but I'll probably end up taking those courses next year anyway.

[deadly7]

Do I know what classes I'm going to take? Not really. Could it change? Probably. Anyway, I'm registered for:

Biomedical Engineering
Unit Operations
Unit Operations Lab
Quantitative Analysis (Chemistry course)
Applied math for physical chemistry (Chemistry course)
Process Simulation and Economics

I might drop biomedical engineering in favor of numerical analysis or a polymers course. I can't decide, but I'll probably end up taking those courses next year anyway.

why bme? You're doing ChemE aren't you?

[Sidoh]

I've heard numerical analysis is fun.  Definitely not my cup of tea, though.  Not nearly abstract enough!

[dark_drake]

Do I know what classes I'm going to take? Not really. Could it change? Probably. Anyway, I'm registered for:

Biomedical Engineering
Unit Operations
Unit Operations Lab
Quantitative Analysis (Chemistry course)
Applied math for physical chemistry (Chemistry course)
Process Simulation and Economics

I might drop biomedical engineering in favor of numerical analysis or a polymers course. I can't decide, but I'll probably end up taking those courses next year anyway.

why bme? You're doing ChemE aren't you?

Chemical engineering programs are gearing more and more toward the biological end of things. It's really just taking principles learned in chemical engineering courses and applying them to living systems.

I've heard numerical analysis is fun.  Definitely not my cup of tea, though.  Not nearly abstract enough!

Pft... knowledge without application is no good to me. 

[Sidoh]

Learning for the sake of learning is usually when it's the most fun for me.

[deadly7]

Chemical engineering programs are gearing more and more toward the biological end of things. It's really just taking principles learned in chemical engineering courses and applying them to living systems.

Only at your school. Check out my UofM's Chemical Engineering program

[Sidoh]

I registered for Philosophy 100.  That's going to be an interesting course... I was going to do 301, but there were prerequisites which I didn't have.

[Ender]

Tell me what your reading list is when you get it.

[Falcon]

After I finish the hist and govt I'll be done with my core curriculum so it'll be all courses for my major after that
Diff equations is going to suck.... so is physics.

[Sidoh]

I'm avoiding differential equations, but only because it's an icky "engineering math" course. ;(

[Falcon]

Unless if you're a software engineering major here, its not a required course for them, but is for every other engineering, wtf. There was a section on differential equations in my calc 2 class earlier this year but to think it has an entire course on it..
But it's a pre-requisite for so many other classes like Advanced Engineering Math and Electrical Network Analysis so theres no way I can get around it =/

[Sidoh]

Unless if you're a software engineering major here, its not a required course for them, but is for every other engineering, wtf. There was a section on differential equations in my calc 2 class earlier this year but to think it has an entire course on it..
But it's a pre-requisite for so many other classes like Advanced Engineering Math and Electrical Network Analysis so theres no way I can get around it =/

I'm doubling in CS/General math.  Differential equations isn't required for either of the majors and I intend to avoid it if it's at all possible.  It might ruin my intention to have a physics minor.

Diff eq generally isn't a useful subject in software engineering, but it's vitally important in just about every other form of engineering commonly taught at university.  The curriculum would be silly if it didn't require engineering majors of the mechanical, electrical, civil, areonautical, et. al flavors.  Software engineering doesn't really involve the same types of analysis that the other types do.

I don't like engineering math courses because they're tedious (just a bunch of memorization and computation) and I don't really see the element of problem solving / critical thought that's there in other math courses I've taken.

[Falcon]

Switched Prof and Tech. Communication with Linear Algebra so my classes wouldn't all be clumped together. That way I can have time in between to study or something. So double the fun -_-

[dark_drake]

Chemical engineering programs are gearing more and more toward the biological end of things. It's really just taking principles learned in chemical engineering courses and applying them to living systems.

Only at your school. Check out my UofM's Chemical Engineering program

I'd have to see more of your electives, but I see a biomolecular engineering course as a required course. It's an elective here.  Other than that, the curricula look very similar.

[Rule]

Sidoh, I'd definitely take DEs and PDEs if I were you.  First of all, they are extremely easy courses (at least at the undergraduate level, in most cases).  So they shouldn't require very much of your time.  Secondly, they are extremely important.  They show up everywhere (including many areas of computer science), because they obviously describe so many situations.

The calculus you learned was also, most likely, geared towards application and away from abstraction and generality.  But I assume you still liked aspects of the courses, and found them useful.