Engineering majors-testing out of Calculus

RingOutAhoya
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:16:43 +0000

Hi Montegut,

Want to start off by saying I don’t check these forums ever, I just remember doing this thing when I was off to college and wanted to see if anybody ever posts in Marquette (which they do). I just saw your question and made an account quickly to answer.

Yes, Marquette Engineering recommends you don’t use your AP calc credit for calc 1. I myself AP’ed out, but I also took a calc 1 class at a comm college because I was afraid of marquette’s warning. Anyway, long story short, calc 1 is not really applicable to engineering. Most of it focuses on limits…calc 2 gets you started in derivatives and integration, which is the nuts and bolts of most engineering majors (except civils, they hardly use any calculus at all).

If your son can get out of calc 1, I don’t think it will be a setback one way or the other. Calc 2 I don’t recommend skipping, but seeing as your son is taking A/B that isn’t an issue.