End of First Year Engineering Advice

10s4life
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 16:35:19 +0000

Hello! I’ve posted a lot but now it’s my turn to seek advice. Here’s a little recap:

I’m an incoming second year at UCLA majoring in Electrical Engineering. I’m a direct admit so getting into the major is not an issue. First year was very difficult rigor wise but I feel I adjusted well and maintained a good study/life balance. I’m involved on a student payload rocket project as a systems engineer and was recently was asked to join the AIAA chapters Recovery Team as a lead engineer. Work wise I was hired and get paid as a School of Engineering Ambassador and also volunteer as a student mentor.

I worked really hard but unfortunately I did get 1 C but I’m working with the professor to raise it to a C+ since I got a B in a subsequent more intensive class. After finishing freshman year, I am almost done with every single lower Div EE and CS classes including the general math and physics stuff. I’ll be taking upper division EE classes solely starting winter quarter with Advanced Circuit theory and signals and systems just as examples. Overall my GPA is a 3.279 after all the EE CS and Math and physics all grades on bell curves so I wasn’t overloaded on ges and stuff. Is that ok? The major average is a 2.78 so I guess I’m above but what do employers think? My dad is a Program Manager at a Major Defense and Aerospace Company and I’m already on the internal system for internships next summer but what about other places? His idea of a good gpa is also a little skewed saying he likes to see 3.8+ but that’s enough for summa cum laude at ucla engineering. On resumes should I put 3.28 or 3.3?

Any advice is appreciated I just wanna know how I’m doing.