UCLA Engineering Q&A

<p>None of the material in them would overlap would they? The requisites say that you don’t need any of the courses in order to complete the other… but is this actually true? Is it actually 3 different, unrelated subjects?</p>

<p>CS 33 and CS M51A have some overlap, but they each teach everything in enough detail that you wouldn’t need to know one to take the other.</p>

<p>Can i get another opinion on this potential quarter? Also what kind of material is covered in cs 33? I have some free time right as I have an easy quarter so I want to get ahead.</p>

<p>Talk to someone who took CS 33 last quarter, but not earlier, since the course is considerably different now that Prof. Reinman is teaching it. In fact, why not talk to Prof. Reinman himself? He’s quite approachable.</p>

<p>i have a quick & dumb question. i should know the answer but i dont remember
is there a unit cap for engineering? do i have to go through that whole petition process for over 21 units?</p>

<p>unit cap? not for graduation purposes, but there is a quarter cap at 21 units. You will have to submit a petition.</p>

<p>Hi, can anyone offer thoughts on these classes?</p>

<p>EE115C (Markovic)</p>

<p>Math 132 (MOSCHOVAKIS, ROBERTS, or CHAYES)</p>

<p>Stats 105</p>

<p>EE116L/CSM152A (SARRAFZADEH or HE)</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Pewgsz: I took CS33 with Reinman and CS35L last quarter. I spent considerably more time in 35L. From what I’ve heard, the old 33 with Rohr had quite a bit more work. That quarter i took those two classes, CS199, and Physics 1B. It was very doable, and you should be fine.</p>

<p>For 33 we had four projects:
1 Bitwise operations
2 Diffusing a binary “bomb” (you have to use objdump to read the assembly code and GDB to “diffuse” it. this project was really fun and involved no coding!)
3 Buffer overflow attacks (you write a couple buffer overflow attacks for faulty code)
4 CUDA (you parallelize a code for the GPU and try to get the runtime from >3 minutes to <16 seconds. The faster your code is under 16 seconds is proportional to how much extra credit you can get)</p>

<p>I am EE major with Computer Option. So, I need to take some CS upper div classes like CS131, but the URSA enrollment is restricted to CS majors. How do I ever enroll in theses classes? Do I have to wait until the Second Pass begins? How do people with CS tech breadth enroll in CS upper div classes anyways? Does it HAVE to go through the Counselor?</p>

<p>That restriction is only for the first pass.</p>

<p>I know a bunch of people at UCLA have interned at DirecTV based off of the number of students representing them at the DirecTV booth during the career fairs, anyone here had any experience interviewing with Directv or interning with them? </p>

<p>I feel like the way the job I’m interviewing for is worded that I’ll just be a glorified IT department intern, fixing computers and stuff. Kind of weird that they just send me an interview for a random position after just handing them a resume at the fall career fair and without a phone interview.</p>

<p>Is it possible to major in mech E while minoring in business at ucla?</p>

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<p>I’m good friends with all the reps from DirecTV (including the students and Cheryl). If you want any tips or suggestions, feel free to send me a PM.</p>

<p>so rite now im a sophomore chemE major, but I’m beginning to question whether I want to be an engineer. I don’t see myself being an engineering after college, and I don’t really know why i chose to be one in the first place. im thinking of changing to math, but is it really worth it? i am almost done with all my lower division courses and i am not terrible at my engineering classes. if i change to math, some of my classes would transfer, but the rest would not count. Also my grades for my lower division math classes aren’t so hot because i was too busy trying to do well in all my lower divs for engineering. =(</p>

<p>im not completely sure if math is the right major for me but i know that i don’t want to keep working so hard for something i don’t want to do anymore.</p>

<p>Any advice?
thanks.</p>

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<p>That’s up to you to decide. What do you see yourself doing after graduating? Choose whatever interest you most or compromise.</p>

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<p>I doubt math is going to require less work than engineering seeing as you say you didn’t do so great in the lower division courses. I think you should take the summer to really think about what you want to do. The last thing you want is to be stuck in a major that you absolutely hate.</p>

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You can do an accounting minor. That will add on 3-4 more quarters.</p>

<p>anybody (probably deuces) taken bioE 182A? wats that class like–its my first bioE upper div.</p>

<p>AA’s? a BioE? haha we should meet in person sometime and i can tell you more details, but for the rest of the peanut gallery - BE 182A is a prep course for future lab work. It’s changed slightly since I’ve taken it, but it still is a 3 module format - biomaterials, tissue and cell culturing, and biomedical devices. Biomaterials will involve making hydrogel ‘scaffolds’ and learning some chemistry and how to fluorescently label things. Tissue and Cell Culturing = obv learn how to culture cells and count them and see if they’re confluent. Biomedical devices will be mainly microfluidic focused since that’s what Dr. Di Carlo works on - you’ll build them figure how to measure things electrically in a device system. The class is more about in lab learning so writing lab reports will be the big thing. Exams weren’t too much of an issue since the focus was on the lab techniques. I didn’t think they graded us harsh at all, but some of the lab experiments were a bit time consuming/tedious to me.</p>

<p>I just took Gekelman’s physics 1A second midterm and (along with friends) thought it was completely ridiculous. I looked at the solutions and basically missed every part of every problem except maybe scratching for partial credit writing the general equation.</p>

<p>The questions are here along with solutions: <a href=“Error Page”>Error Page;

<p>Do you guys think this is overly difficult for 1A class?</p>

<p>^ I can’t look at it. You’ll have to have to upload it elsewhere. Maybe you should try your BOL website.</p>