flexible first year question (1 Viewer)

[jannny]

heyss,

I just enrolled to Civil Engineering and just now thinking of changing to FFY. I was looking through the Units of study for both courses, and it shows that they are almost the same except, I get to choose whether to do Chemistry1A or Physics Regular for flexible first year.

My concern is, if I do Flexible first year and choose Chemistry how will I have a "taste" of other engineering specialization such as Civil engineering or Mechanical. Or if I choose Physics Regular, how will I have an idea of what Chemical engineers do.

btw, you have to choose the specialization after 1st sem isnt it?

 

[goony]

Yes you have to specialize after 1st semester (i did FFY for my first year), although depending on the course you can still choose as late as halfway through 2nd year.

 

[jb_nc]

Previous years (i.e. my intake) did Chemistry 1A instead of Physics at all. I suggest you ask Dr Valix if you can do Chemistry 1A instead of physics so you have the option of ChemE; Physics regular only stops you from doing ChemE if you would like to do that stream.

You go through what engineers do in ENGG1801 (I think) so you'll have an "idea" of what each different engineer does.

btw, you have to choose the specialization after 1st sem isnt it?

Just ChemE (in stream A) so you can choose Chemistry 1B and CHNG1103 in semester 2. Most other streams have a unit you have to do in second semester but you can do it year II semester 2 instead (forgoing an elective subject) if you choose something different except ChemE.

 

[jannny]

Previous years (i.e. my intake) did Chemistry 1A instead of Physics at all. I suggest you ask Dr Valix if you can do Chemistry 1A instead of physics so you have the option of ChemE; Physics regular only stops you from doing ChemE if you would like to do that stream.

You go through what engineers do in ENGG1801 (I think) so you'll have an "idea" of what each different engineer does.

Yea, I checked the previous course programs and showed that you do chem instead of physics, lol why would they do that anyway.
btw, the only Eng subject for my 1st sem is ENGG 1800

1. So If I do chem1a, will that restrict me from having insights of civil or mechanical?

2. does doing ENGG 1800, already enough to give me insights of other engineering disciplines since the UoS is entitled "Eng Disciplines(Intro) Stream A"

 

[jb_nc]

Yea, I checked the previous course programs and showed that you do chem instead of physics, lol why would they do that anyway.
btw, the only Eng subject for my 1st sem is ENGG 1800

1. So If I do chem1a, will that restrict me from having insights of civil or mechanical?

No.

2. does doing ENGG 1800, already enough to give me insights of other engineering disciplines since the UoS is entitled "Eng Disciplines(Intro) Stream A"

Yeah you'll learn about all the streams and what you do. I meant 1800 by 1801

 

[jannny]

So why do I need chem1a for, if ENGG 1800 introduces all the disciplines in stream A. (chemical. civil. mechanical)

btw thanks for ur inputs jb_nc

 

[jb_nc]

So why do I need chem1a for, if ENGG 1800 introduces all the disciplines in stream A. (chemical. civil. mechanical)

btw thanks for ur inputs jb_nc

Because 1800 is just a brief, brief overview of everything.

You need the Chemistry as a pre-req to do Chemistry 1B and then CHEM2XXX.

Chem 1A was also (at least in the 2007 handbook) a pre-req for a civil materials class.

 

[jannny]

ok thanks

 

[jb_nc]

I also think they added Physics because a lot of people failed ENGG1803 Engineering Mechanics (it was nonsense) equivalent to Physics 1 and 2 in 1 semester I think.

So it's not really flexible.