UCLA Engineering Q&A

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<p>it’s more like they know it’s time consuming especially if you’re not a good programmer or just hate it. I agree with you that CS majors should take CS at UCLA. trust me when i say CS at lesser schools is a joke in comparison.</p>

<p>Hi there, Not to get too much ahead of myself, but i’m still a junior in high school, and i’ve been really pumped up about the college i’m planning to attend.</p>

<p>As of now, i’m really fixated on Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering as a major, and my school i want to attend is University of California, Los Angeles. As a california resident, i’ve been doing research on possible schools that i may be attending ( due to my location ) </p>

<p>My List Is:</p>

<ol>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo</li>
<li>UC Davis</li>
<li>UC Irvine</li>
<li>San Jose State University</li>
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<p>Again my major i’m really glued onto is aeronautical/aerospace engineering, to be more specific i’m into the aeronautical engineering portion alot more than the aerospace, because i’ve always wanted to design commerical aircraft and i’m not so interested in spacecraft or helicopters for the matter.</p>

<h1>I’ve even bought my UCLA sweater online and everything ^-^. But as i was re-searching through the UCLA website today, and i went on the aerospace section, it stated this.</h1>

<p>Aerospace Engineering B.S. at UCLA</p>

<h1>The ABET-accredited aerospace engineering program is concerned with the design and construction of various types of fixed-wing and rotary-wing (helicopters) aircraft used for air transportation and national defense. It is also concerned with the design and construction of spacecraft, the exploration and utilization of space, and related technological fields.</h1>

<p>As i stated earlier, i’m really into Aeronautical engineering, not aerospace.</p>

<p>Does this basically mean that if i attend UCLA there will be no aeronautical portion, or they won’t focus on building commercial aircraft, and they will only focus on helicopters and spacecraft as specified above?</p>

<p>Because i really want to design/build commercial planes, and not so much spacecraft or helicopters.</p>

<p>Does that mean that if i do get into UCLA, which i very much hope to do in the future. That me being an aeronautical engineer is limited, because they only mentioned astronautical and fixed winged aircraft, that they may not offer that?</p>

<p>Thanks again, all help appreciated!!</p>

<p>I’m currently deciding between UCLA’s computer science and Berkeley’s Computer Science (Letters and Science). I’m a transfer student from UC Riverside. I preferred UCLA’s campus and atmosphere to Berkeley’s. However, I love the fact that Berkeley’s program is a B.A. and would provide me room in my schedule to take other classes that interest me (rather than just science/engineering stuff). </p>

<p>I have every single one of UCLA’s listed prerequisites completed. Will my schedule at UCLA be pretty much all computer science/engineering/math classes or will I be taking other stuff as well? Basically, if all I’m taking are science/engineering every quarter, I’m unhappy. If I have room for like one fun (or at least…more humanitiesish) class every quarter, I’m more happy.</p>

<p>I’m not MAE, but I would assume that by fixed-wing aircraft, they are referring to your typical fixed-wing airplane. Also, I know a few people that went into the commercial airline industry after graduating from UCLA in MAE</p>

<p>hey guys! quick question, what is usually the average score (out of 100) required for an A and for a B in CS32. from what it seems, the class seems to be doing fairly well. the 50th percentile on the midterm was 69%, the 25th percentile was 56% and the 75th percentile was 79%. the projects have mostly been around 90%. from what i heard, CS32 is a hard class and i would expect the A to be around 83-86, but it seems to be much higher. :/</p>

<p>^ avg. ~93</p>

<p>you should just accept your fate</p>

<p>You should really ask this question to the CS32 professor or one of the TAs.</p>

<p>^Smallberg ftw</p>

<p>I like smallberg… but… project is currently rocking me</p>

<p>The quarter I took CS32 lots of people just fell apart on the last project. The medians for the first 3 projects was in the 80s or 90s while the median for the final project was in the 50s</p>

<p>11 weeks later. And Smallberg still has not given back our grades for the last 2 projects of CS32 Winter quarter :((</p>

<p>^I’ve accepted that we probably will never get those grades, and that the tentative grade will just turn into our final one. Although I’d really like to know how I did on project 4 since I spent so much time optimizing it…</p>

<p>Can anyone tell me where I can find a list of the impacted engineering majors at UCLA? I want to know if the chemical engineering major is impacted. I plan on changing my major from Materials Engineering to Chemical Engineering when I go to UCLA.</p>

<p>I doubt it, chemical engineering is the least popular engineering major at UCLA as far as I know besides maybe aerospace, but I don’t know if it states the impacted ones on the official site.</p>

<p>Is Materials Engineering popular?</p>

<p>^ No. A lot of people don’t even know what it is, or how it’s different from ChemE. </p>

<p>I honestly think ChemE’s quite popular. About the same levels as BioE maybe. Met a lot of them. … But I suppose I’m a bit biased since I’m in AIChe. xD</p>

<p>I think what many people think are the least popular majors is based on their own majors. I’ve even heard from some people that CS is the least popular major. Totally did not believe that.</p>

<p>Hmm interesting, I always thought there were barely any chemE students. Like in my engineering 110 class, he surveyed and 1 person out of like 150 were ChemE lol. I guess my ranking of the popularity of the majors is something like this:</p>

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<li>CS/CSE/EE</li>
<li>Civil/Mechanical</li>
<li>Bio/Chem/Materials</li>
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<p>2009 Fall enrollment:
Aero: 240
Bio: 262
Chem:368
Civil 402
CS: 294
CSE: 291
EE: 758
Mech: 489
Mat: 101</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/admissions/enrollment-degree-statistics-new[/url]”>http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/admissions/enrollment-degree-statistics-new&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>wow mind=blown at the number of chem engineers, who would have known</p>

<p>Has anybody in here double majored with math along with engineering? Is this possible? Or rather, probable? Hahaha</p>