BEng Electronic & Computer Engineering

stainluss

I was considering this,

Is it very hard or mnagable if you make a decent effort?(I do OL maths)
Does anyone know where i could see the timetable? (how many hours/week avg.)

Is there much internet content? Would it be a good degree for someone who might want an internet career compared to say, information technology?

Is the special maths entrance exam hard for someone who would get an A1 at OL?

syncosised

I'm in third year ECE. There's a lot of Maths involved, but none of it is too difficult if you put your mind to it. The course isn't too different to Electronic and Electrical Engineering, you just do more programming instead of classes like Theory of Machines. Overall it's fairly handy if you put the effort in.

The timetables are only available from within the college, but the workload in first year is around 30 hours. First year is mostly to get everyone up to the same level, like Leaving Cert Maths, Physics and so on.

There's no internet-specific classes, I'd say if you're interested in things like web development, it's not going to be the course to do. I don't know too much about the IT course, but I imagine that it's web-oriented to some extent.

I didn't do the entrance exam, so I don't know about that, but I believe it should be easy enough if you're on the way to an OL A1.

If you've any more questions, let me know!

ciano1

Here are some of the sample papers from the special maths exam

http://www.nuigalway.ie/faculties_departments/engineering/documents/samplemathspapers_20022009.doc

the-island-man

Hi,
i'm in the final year of the course. I don't know much about the special entrance exam but my advice on the maths/mathphysics is that there is tutorials put on aswell as the lectures and whatever about lectures you should definitely go to the tutorials every week if you intend on doing this course. Don't get me wrong lectures are important for understanding the subject but the tutorials are even more important as they give you some idea of what the exam will be like and which questions are the easy ones.

Regards the web design if you're really passionate about it you can teach yourself, this course only teaches you the basics you need to know to enter the Electonics or I.T sector but the important thing about the course is that it teaches you how to self learn something from scratch. If you complete 4 years of this course and can't learn something on your own initiative there is something wrong. For instance I can create web pages yet I've never done a single module on web design.