engineering

Barbie_666

said it last week, no 1 took me seriously...n e 1 doing engineering???

Bullockshaver

Me and what a crappy subject it is

joe_chicken

been there, done that!

you wont get anything from it if you dont love it...

if you like solving large differential equations and inverting 10x10 matrices, then by all means do it, but if not dont.

suppose its like anything really

ooops... thought it was college engineering

Mutant_Fruit

if you mean engineering in college, then yes. I'm doing electronic in UCD.

p.pete

I did leaving cert engineering years ago ;D

It's a hard graft but I take it you have the project and practical behind you at this stage. As far as I remember there is a lot of repetition in the questions - figure out which are the most common questions and try find a source for a reliable answer to those questions...

subway_ie

College Engineering: Was going to do it, but now it just looks like too much hard work.

Leaving Cert Engineering: Again, too much hard work. Plus our school refuses to do any "practical" subjects.

Boston

Originally posted by subway_ie
College Engineering: Was going to do it, but now it just looks like too much hard work.

wow you're going ot be a success in life, you'll either leach off the hard work of others or be a total waster, or both. Christ try nto to take the easy option for once.

subway_ie

Originally posted by Boston
wow you're going ot be a success in life, you'll either leach off the hard work of others or be a total waster, or both. Christ try nto to take the easy option for once.

Yup, that's me, lazy waster, leaching off of others. I just can't wait untill I'm 18 so I can draw the dole. Maybe I'll fake an accident too, get some compensation as well as claim disability. Seems like a good plan, eh?

OR maybe by "too much hard work" I was referring to the amount of work I'd have to do to bring my biology/chemistry up to scratch while also trying to keep up the rest of the coursework - the work/time spent on chemistry/biology being to the detriment of the other, equally important aspects of the course. Instead, financial maths and economics is my first choice. Obviously that's an unbelievably easy course. :rolleyes:

Boston

Originally posted by subway_ie
Yup, that's me, lazy waster, leaching off of others. I just can't wait untill I'm 18 so I can draw the dole. Maybe I'll fake an accident too, get some compensation as well as claim disability. Seems like a good plan, eh?

OR maybe by "too much hard work" I was referring to the amount of work I'd have to do to bring my biology/chemistry up to scratch while also trying to keep up the rest of the coursework - the work/time spent on chemistry/biology being to the detriment of the other, equally important aspects of the course. Instead, financial maths and economics is my first choice. Obviously that's an unbelievably easy course. :rolleyes:

What the hell are you talkign baout chemistry and Biology in relation to engineering? As for the business courses, well you said it not me.

subway_ie

Originally posted by Boston
What the hell are you talkign baout chemistry and Biology in relation to engineering? As for the business courses, well you said it not me.

I was referring to biomedical engineering... centres around chemistry, biology and physics, as well as the normal engineering subjects. I take it you don't actually do engineering either then?

As for the business courses, well you said it not me.

Well, you said my attitude was that of a waster/"leech", so obviously any choices I make are automatically the "easy option". Therefore, financial maths and economics must be the "easy option". And, btw, it's not a business course - it's a BSc.

Imposter

I did engineering for the leaving many moons ago and doing the project does take a lot of time. For me I definitely spent too much time on the project with had an effect on other subjects. With hindsight the time needed to do the engineering project to a high standard would be better spent (in terms of LC grades) on other subjects. It was one of the more interesting subjects though (for me anyway).

I thought the theory paper was quite easy. A little bit of learning stuff, a little bit of waffle and a lot of common sense is all that's required.

Boston

Originally posted by subway_ie
I was referring to biomedical engineering... centres around chemistry, biology and physics, as well as the normal engineering subjects. I take it you don't actually do engineering either then?

What do I look like, a mind reader, you said "College Engineering". Only place I know that does biomedical engineering is DCU as pair of mechatronics course, where neither chemistry or biology was required. The fast majority of engineering colleges don't cover biomedical eng here. Also I do engineering, maybe if you had bothered your arse to research the requirements for engineering and what it actually involved instead of casually dismissing it as " too hard" you might have discovered it was within your reach.

Originally posted by subway_ie

Well, you said my attitude was that of a waster/"leech", so obviously any choices I make are automatically the "easy option". Therefore, financial maths and economics must be the "easy option". And, btw, it's not a business course - it's a BSc.

How the hell am I ment to know what course it is, you didn't say where you where doing it. If you where doing it in trinity it would be part of bess.

subway_ie

Originally posted by Imposter
I did engineering for the leaving many moons ago and doing the project does take a lot of time. For me I definitely spent too much time on the project with had an effect on other subjects.

The same thing happened with me in Junior Cert art... spent ages on the project. That's the only reason I didn't keep it up for leaving cert - it would've taken up way too much time and probably wouldn't have been as useful as applied maths, which i chose instead.
It's the same reason I did ordinary level irish for the leaving cert too - I could've wasted time struggling to get a B in higher level, or drop to pass, get an A/B, and be able to devote the time on other subjects that I would actually use after school.

subway_ie

Originally posted by Boston
What do I look like, a mind reader, you said "College Engineering". Only place I know that does biomedical engineering is DCU as pair of mechatronics course, where neither chemistry or biology was required. The fast majority of engineering colleges don't cover biomedical eng here.

If you're not a mind reader, then you really shouldn't be making those kinds of assumptions. I said biomedical engineering - I know you can do it in UL and NUIG, and probably in a lot of other colleges/universities/ITs around the country. It has a focus on physiology - designing medical equipment, that kind of thing. And I did actually research into it. Again, perhaps you should be less reliant on those mind reading skills of yours? Like I said the "hard work" I was talking about was the work involved in trying to bring my chemistry/biology up to the standard of the other people on the course. I haven't done chemistry/biology since 3rd year and I was told by more than one person in both UL and NUIG that it'd take a lot of time to catch up in first year, as well as do all the other engineering subjects. Time that could be spent more productively doing other subjects where I didn't need to catch up.

Also I do engineering, maybe if you had bothered your arse to research the requirements for engineering and what it actually involved instead of casually dismissing it as " too hard" you might have discovered it was within your reach.

Seems like I have done the research, maybe you just confined your research to a specific area of the country that doesn't offer any kind of biomedical engineering, or maybe you just didn't bother looking into it.

How the hell am I ment to know what course it is, you didn't say where you where doing it. If you where doing it in trinity it would be part of bess.

I never said you were meant to know what course it is. Again, those mind reading/assumption skills are really letting you down. And no, it's not part of BESS. BESS is more general and less maths orientated than the NUIG course is. Besides, Dublin is too far. I suppose I'm being lazy now too - not wanting to commute to Dublin every day from Galway?

Boston

Again how Am I meant to know you're in galway. It's not my fault you're too damn lazy to follow your heart. I researched my course extremely well. Why the hell would i research courses that required(as you said) two subjects I didn't have? Maybe if you had, you would have discovered the courses I did that you can specialise in biomedical eng, which afaik is what the NUIG and UL courses do.

subway_ie

Originally posted by Boston
It's not my fault you're too damn lazy to follow your heart.

"Follow your heart". I am "following my heart". I was interested in BIOMEDICAL engineering as I've already explained. I started researching undenominated engineering, then decided that the only aspect I was interested in was biomedical.

Why the hell would i research courses that required(as you said) two subjects I didn't have?

They're not course requirements to have them in the leaving cert, they're subjects that you do in first year. The only faculty requirement is a HC3 in maths and a HC3 in a lab science subject (physics for me).

Maybe if you had, you would have discovered the courses I did that you can specialise in biomedical eng, which afaik is what the NUIG and UL courses do.

Hmmm. I'm obviously not up to your high mind-reading abilities yet. I don't know what course you're doing... only that you're doing some kind of engineering. Undenominated engineering in NUIG is my 3rd/4th choice, where you can specialise in differenct areas after 1st year, assuming there is enough room, so I'm assuming you're doing something like that. If I get it, fine. It's not my first choice (ie my first preference) but I'm not totally opposed to doing it or anything.

penguincakes

General engineering UCD next year, moving into something chemical / electronic, not sure which.

Thraktor

Nice to see that there's barely been a single reply to this topic that actually concerns Leaving Cert Engineering. I'll be sitting the exam myself in two days, and the reason there appear to be so few of us here is that there are only a handful of schools in the country which have the facilities to teach it. Which is also the reason that, despite it being the most quickly-developing subject, we're still working with a ten year old textbook (which only covers about half the course), an incredibly vague syllabus, an exam where one of the sections (modern technologies, I think it's Q8) can contain questions on absolutely anything the examiners feel like, and a situation where it's completely impossible to get any exam help, grinds, notes, or even a definitive list of what the hell we're supposed to be studying. Don't you just love it?

Sarunas

all am learning is the special topic, man its so boooriinggg. I was reading one page for 20 minutes....

All im gonna do is just read over the exam papers, learn off iron carbon diagrams, few other common questions.

Oppps... i should be doing engineering right now.....

Sarunas

They sure give tough inventors (i think it was a Q1-b), bit of googling showed, that
(i)was inventor of gas lighthouse
(ii)x-ray
(iii)lathe.