Ross Minor with Engineering (IOE)?

777Blue77
Tue, 27 May 2014 14:54:04 +0000

“Sure, IOE will contain the least of that and will be relatively easy, but you’ll still need to take all the engineering prerequisites. Math up to calc 4 plus and advanced math, mechanical physics, e&m physics, chemistry, intro programming.”

If you are in IOE, you don’t need to take Calc 4 (Math 216). Instead, you need to take Linear Algebra (Math 214). There is no advanced math requirement for IOE students either.

Furthermore, I recommend that you take as many of those prerequisites that @ThisIsMichigan mentioned outside of Michigan (get AP credit for these courses or take them at another university during the summer). You don’t need the information from most of those classes to do well in IOE. Furthermore, some of them, like the physics classes (140/141 and 240/241), are just terrible.

If it’s not too late, I recommend you do the following:

Take the following AP Exams
-Chemistry
-Mechanical Physics (the calculus based one)
-Physics Electricity and Magnetism (the calculus based one)
-Calculus BC

Whatever you don’t get credit for, I would then recommend that you take as a guest student at another university. You should probably take Calculus 3 as a guest student as well.

The two most useful prerequisites are ENGR 100 (intro to engineering, you work on a team project and the topic depends on the task) and ENGR 101 (intro to programming). Some IOE courses involve teamwork and some involve programming (and some involve both).