engineering anyone?

mann32

got into electronic engineering in DCU and wondering what its like and are many others doing it?

thunderdrummer

I am going into second year this September and I am doing biomedical engineering. Everyone does the same first year regardless of what discipline they pick from the cao. Towards the end of the year people who have entered from the common entry route pick which course they want to go on and study. Everyone else who (like yourself) have already picked their discipline, can continue without changing discipline or can change for something like €30 I think.

I thought last year was great and I had a ball. I personally found the computer programming moduel difficult and maths was tough to keep on top of, but the year is great. If you have any particular questions about anything, ask away

mann32

that sounds good:)

Do you have to study much to do well in it? and are the maths much different from leaving cert maths?

Are the class sizes big in engineering?

I found out i just got Larkfield accommodation hope its good craic any idea what its like?

thunderdrummer

You will have to study to do well, or at least pass. You will have certain strenghts and certain weaknesses as everyone else will have. A lot of these will depends on the choice of your leaving cert subjects. You will not have to study as much as you did for the leaving cert, but dont let things get out of hand. Most things can be learned in the month or two before the exams, but I do recommend going to as many lectures as you can and paying attention so you can get the idea of what the topic being covered is.

The maths in nothing too difficult compared to leaving cert maths, there are just different things that weren't really focused in on in the leaving cert that are studied.

I stayed in Larkfield last year and it was a bomb! The rooms aren't the most spacious but are grand for thier purpose. You will meet people living there on the first night you move in. We had a pizza party in the court yard and everyone chats to everyone else. If you plan on staying in accomodation at the weekend it is pretty much empty apart from the resident cleaning ladies and a few others.

mann32

thanks that helps a lot. just one more thing sense i choose electronic engineering will i still have to do tests in mechanical, biomedical and the other engineering disciplines if its a common first year?

mono627

mann32 wrote: »

thanks that helps a lot. just one more thing sense i choose electronic engineering will i still have to do tests in mechanical, biomedical and the other engineering disciplines if its a common first year?

I'm just finished my degree from the electronic engineering school and highly recommend it.

In first year, yes you will have to do all common entry exams. A few people in my year changed their original course to a different course after sampling all the different disciplines so don't be put off by having to do other tests, you may like them.

Best of luck with it, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Oh and make sure you get involved in as many societies as you can as it's a great way to meet people.

mono627

thunderdrummer wrote: »

You will not have to study as much as you did for the leaving cert

:eek: wait until you get to final year! You'll wish you were doing your leaving cert again

KeithTS

Starting up engineering myself, only a few weeks now.
I'm 26 so any school maths is well out of my head.

I have been studying LC and Engineering maths on my own for the last few months and I'm fairly comfortable but will still need to put in a lot of overtime with it.
Keep on top of things as they come up and I'm sure you'll be fine, that's what I'm hoping for myself at least.

See you come September!!!

hamkie2

Im (hopefully) going into 3rd year mechatronic at DCU, the entire engineering faculty is excellent. I always find theres a very friendly atmosphere between everybody in the class, we get on very well with most people in the engineering family.
Study is a must, I found that out the hard way by having 3 repeat exams this year. It doesn't take massive amounts of study, just the odd hour or two as often as possible during the week and it makes all the difference when it comes to exam time, everything will come back alot quicker. As for the lecturers the majority of them are very very approachable, if you have a query you could take to most of them and be met with a friendly response.