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Advice for Pre-Engineering Majors
In addition to the four year degree in Computer
Engineering, the campus also provides all the core courses
a student needs to complete the first two years of coursework
common to most engineering subdisciplines.
The most important courses you should take while here are your MATHEMATICS courses.
Depending on your mathematics proficiency, you should already have or should take here
the following courses: MATH 110, MATH 120, MATH 211, MATH 212, and MATH 213.
Engineering and science courses rely heavily on mathematical knowledge, so it
is crucially important that you take a mathematics course every quarter you are
here. If you think you have exhausted all the mathematics you need, take more.
A close second in importance are your PHYSICS courses. You
should take PHYS 221, PHYS 222, and PHYS 223. Depending on
your intended specialization in engineering you may also want
to take PHYS 234 or PHYS 235 (but you should be aware that
these courses are only offered if there is sufficient demand).
You may also want to take PHYS 224 or PHYS 225, depending
again on your interests.
The following is a list of courses that will almost surely count towards an engineering degree
at another university:
- Courses for a student transferring to almost any engineering program in almost any engineering
subdiscipline: MATH 110, MATH 120, MATH 211, MATH 212, MATH 213, PHYS 221, PHYS 222, and PHYS 223.
- Courses for a student transferring to almost any engineering program in the United States: Courses above,
plus ENG 101.
- Courses for students transferring to almost any engineering program in California. Courses above,
plus PSCI 203 and one of the following HIST 146, HIST 200 or HIST 201. (This will meet the state and
local government requirement of the State of California. Most engineering programs outside California
will have a similar requirement.)
- The following courses will probably be required by most
engineering programs but may depend on which engineering
subdiscipline and which university you choose: MATH 251,
MATH 252, MATH 331, PHYS 234, PHYS 235, CHEM 215, CHEM
216, CSCI 201, COMM 120, BIO 100, ECON 200, and ECON 202.
Most universities have some kind of foreign language requirement.
At some universities, however, it may be possible to meet
this requirement with a computer language.
BEWARE: Some of the courses you take at CSUSB will not count towards coursework requirements at
the university to which you intend to transfer. Many courses you can take here will transfer but
will not count towards an Engineering degree. Do not take any capstone courses at CSUSB. Carefully
choose which General Education courses you take. The best advice we can give is:
- If you know the universities to which you intend to
apply for admission, check out their engineering websites
(or, even better, speak to a person in the engineering
department of each university) to find out their requirements
for transfer students.
- Look at the following website to determine the transferability
(properly called ‘articulation’) of specific courses:
http://www.assist.org/
- Get advice from someone in the CSUSB physics department,
especially Dr. Dixon or Dr. Usher.
- Get application information at the main enrollment
page for CSUSB.
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