<p>Hi. I’m currently in ChE, but I want to change my major to BME. Meanwhile, I decided to take the courses that are shared by both majors.
Also, I want to do Pre-Med. I was wondering, as a freshman, if my schedule is good.</p>
<p>UGS 303
UGS 001
BME102L
Bio311C
Che301
M408D</p>
<p>Yeah, that seems fine… pretty similar to what I did in my first semester as a CHE.</p>
<p>I think that was my son’s exact schedule a year ago, and he has the same plans as you.</p>
<p>dhs, have I asked you already if you’ve had any programming experience? Second semester, my son had a really hard time in the EE class (314 or something?) and ended up dropping it, because he’d never programmed. He took a class at ACC this summer to catch up. Anyway, I thought I’d give you heads-up.</p>
<p>@MaineLonghorn
is your son majoring in BME and is in Pre-Med? And what kind of programming did he have trouble on? </p>
<p>@soadquake981
Did you end up changing your major to BME and doing Pre-MEd?</p>
<p>Nope, I’m still very much CHE, haha. I’m just saying that your schedule is fine for a CHE/BME’s first semester.</p>
<p>ChemE and BME are considered to be the 2 best engineering routes to med-school- not that either of them are exactly ideal to begin with. The class Maine is referring to is EE319K Introduction to Embedded Systems. It used to only be included in a certain BME track, but the new catalog has now made it a mandatory course for all BME’s. Notice that it is an EE (electrical engineering) class so the majority of each class with be EE’s.</p>
<p>The class, from a EE’s perspective, is considered to be a heavy load but isn’t considered to be that difficult from a comprehension standpoint. The problem is that the course is is designed for EE’s and the pre-req for it is EE306, which touches on many of the general topics of computing. The Engineering School also recognizes a BME intro class as a pre-req for EE319K but the BME class naturally doesn’t cover the EE aspects of computing as thoroughly as the EE pre-req. As a result of this, BME’s suffer a relatively tough handicap.</p>
<p>When I took the class this past spring, the general consensus among all BME’s I talked too was that they were in over their heads in that class. This catalog is still new, so hopefully the administration has taken noticed of this and amended it somehow.
In terms of programming, the class is about evenly split between using the assembly language of the 9S12 and C. The assignments themselves are not really that difficult but programming requires a certain mindset. People innately tend to be either good programmers or bad programmers. If you’ve taken any form of comp sci in the past, you’ll already know which one you are.</p>
<p>frever, thanks for the explanation. Now I understand why my son had such a hard time! He’s usually a really good student, so I was surprised. He does feel better after taking C at ACC. He got an A, so I’m hoping he’s caught on to programming now.</p>
<p>So…how should I prepare for the class?</p>
<p>Is it possible for me to take that class at a community college and transfer the credit?</p>
<p>Sorry I don’t memorize the class codes for random schools</p>