<p>just wondering how long an average engineering student studies outside of class each day if they want to maintain around a 3.0-3.5 GPA. 3 hours? more?</p>
<p>As long as you need to until you understand the material. It could be 10 minutes, it could be 10 hours. Also try tutoring, study group or partner, or your professor(s)</p>
<p>^ Exactly. Personally, I find that I usually need to put in at least 2-3 hours per class alone for difficult material and perhaps another hour or two on top of that with a group if I feel I need further solidification. </p>
<p>It also really depends on the class and major. For upper div MAE project oriented classes, my team and I have been putting in 12-14 hour days for the past 2 weeks. Of course, a large chunk of this time was spent programming and fabricating parts for a robot we built.</p>
<p>What’s a MAE project</p>
<p>Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering.</p>
<p>All day…</p>
<p>You can easily maintain a 3.0-3.5 just by doing homework and showing up to class.</p>
<p>Just don’t use facebook.</p>
<p>[Study</a> Links Facebook to Lower GPA - InternetNews.com](<a href=“http://www.internetnews.com/webcontent/article.php/3815241/Study-Links-Facebook-to-Lower-GPA.htm]Study”>http://www.internetnews.com/webcontent/article.php/3815241/Study-Links-Facebook-to-Lower-GPA.htm)</p>
<p>Man I hate facebook.</p>
<p>According to the article it says that people who study 11-15 hours per week and don’t use facebook tend to get between 3.5 and 4.0 compared to people who study 1-5 hours per week and use facebook who get between 3.0 and 3.5. Adjust this for lower GPAs in engineering than in other schools and you are probably still talking about at least a quarter of a GPA point difference. It also gives you a ballpark figure, 15 hours, which is like 2 hours per day or 3 hours on weekdays.</p>
<p>In practice I used to study probably about 25 hours per week outside of class, but I took more classes and harder classes than was necessary. Some weeks I spent practically no time studying and some weeks I forgot what it felt like to get a good night’s sleep.</p>
<p>Personally, I found that at my University, I spend about a 1 hour and 20-30 minutes per credit hour per week outside of class (that includes projects, homework, studying, etc.) with a fairly typical freshman engineering curriculum, and my GPA is about a 3.45. </p>
<p>“You can easily maintain a 3.0-3.5 just by doing homework and showing up to class.”</p>
<p>Maybe 3.0… Maybe (even that I feel is a stretch). Unless I’m basically just a dumbass who shouldn’t be in engineering at all I’m thinking a 3.5 is not really a worthwhile number to quote.</p>
<p>Is having a part time job out of the question?</p>
<p>Nope, not at all, though unless you NEED to or if you’re actually getting a legit part time job (not fast food), I wouldn’t recommend it. </p>
<p>A few people who did work and are in Engineering who didn’t work any significant hours in High School told me me they felt overwhelmed their first semester. Those who did seemed fine. Might be a consideration,</p>
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<p>That is bad science there. They changed two variables at once. There is no indication that facebook was the prime factor in the lower GPA. Perhaps the drastically reduced study hours played a role? I realize the two are likely interrelated to a degree, but that study certainly didn’t use the proper scientific method. That said, facebook is a blight that sucks up peoples’ lives with useless stalking. It makes me laugh. And yes, I do have one, color me a hypocrite. hehe</p>
<p>^ I actually just stated it incorrectly. In the article, they have two groups, one that uses facebook and one that doesn’t, and both the GPAs and hours studied are “dependent” variables in this context. Reading over my post I make it sound like Facebook/hours were both independent, and I apologize.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how seriously I take the article, though. I don’t think there are more than a couple of people who don’t use facebook, and I’m one of them.</p>
<p>Of course, maybe they just got lucky and picked facebook users who happened not to study… correlation vs causation, danm you!</p>
<p>I noticed the same thing. How can you conclude that using facebook was the cause of the lower GPA when the 2 groups studied for such a different amount of time? The only thing you can maybe conclude from the article is that barely studying and using facebook is not a good combination…</p>
<p>My bad I just saw you fixed your post</p>
<p>Regardless, I think we can all agree that people who get addicted to facebook are hilarious in a sad sort of way and that the South Park episode about facebook was amazing. Thank you…</p>
<p>But GPA is not everything, companies want people with personalities. You want your GPA to be good, but you also need to have social skills. I’ll be a senior at purdue, and the company i’m at now, does not hire engineers unless they have a personality. Above a 3.0 and you’re fine.</p>
<p>Do you imply that using facebook gives a person more of a personality? That is ludicrous, and so the comment about personality is really quite irrelevant.</p>
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<p>Plenty of 3.5-4.0s with personality. Take ECE 477 and you’ll meet them :P</p>