<p>How important are they? I’m a rising senior and most likely to go grad school for Master’s in Engineering without UG degree in engineering. Many programs I looked into require you to take several UG level courses before you can begin, but not Introduction to Engineering, which many UG programs seem to have. Will skipping this class have an impact on transitioning to engineering? </p>
<p>I can take this class as an elective in my senior year though at a different school</p>
<p>“Intro to engineering” has an importance of 0.000 x 0^0.</p>
<p>LOL i see.
I asked this question because I thought taking this class might increase my chance of getting admitted to grad school by showing that I’m interested in engineering.</p>
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<p>That’s a good one.</p>
<p>My Intro to Engineering had an $80 book that was required. Since I was a naieve freshman, I bought the book. We never used it once during the class!</p>
<p>In UG engineering courses there are many things "methods’ if you will, that the prof expects you to already know or learn by your self i.e. matlab, error analysis methods, VBA, solidworks, economics analysis, etc. etc. so these intro to ENG courses just give you some familiar with these topics that will be expected of you later on.</p>
<p>Shoot I don’t know if I ever DIDN’T buy a book. I still have almost all my books from my last two years of undergrad. It has really come in handy.</p>
<p>I felt my Intro to Materials Science was a pretty useful class. I use my textbook from that class more often than any of my others since it tends to have clear and concise descriptions for what I need.</p>
<p>It helps weed out the serious engineering intents from that ones that “thought” they wanted to major in engineering?</p>