Hours a week for 1st year engineering

nboard

im doing an engineering course starting this monday and im just wodering how many hours approx will i be spending in a lecture hall and not having fun

RolandIRL

my housemate was doing civil eng last year and it was about 32-35 hours/week including labs and all iirc for first year.

nboard

is that a lot relative to other courses??

RolandIRL

well last year i had about 20-25 hours/week for undenominated science but i wasn't doing as many subjects as my housemate.
take it like this, you'll roughly be in from 9-5 (with 1-2 off) so that's roughly 35 hours/week. but your labs will never run for the full time allocated (unless one week is hard) so for a 3 hour lab, you might be finished after 2.

martin699

for most engineering courses you will be pretty much in college from 9 until 5 most days of the week... but when you finish in 4 years time you will be fully qualified and wont have to go looking into post grads to get a job like you would in arts or alot of other courses...

its hard work... but worth it in the end... believe me ive just been through it and I will be accepting my degree already having a job this October

nboard

SOUND LADS!!!!!

RolandIRL

martin699 wrote: »

for most engineering courses you will be pretty much in college from 9 until 5 most days of the week... but when you finish in 4 years time you will be fully qualified and wont have to go looking into post grads to get a job like you would in arts or alot of other courses...

its hard work... but worth it in the end... believe me ive just been through it and I will be accepting my degree already having a job this October

yeah i'm probably going to have to do a postgrad, but that's cos i want to teach so i'd need to do a HDip anyway.
but i've only 16 hours/week in total this year (including labs but not tutorials) so i don't really care

what engineering degree did you do out of interest?

gant0

Yeah engineering does have a very tough timetable but keep in mind,a lot of stuff we will learn must be showed to us where other course especially law expect you to do a lot of your own work.I'd say including lectures,labs etc and study time needed at home most course are roughly the same.

wobbles-grogan

Yup, your gonna be in from 9 till 5. But that doesn matter cos youll have the whole evening off (most of them anyway...) unlike alot of other courses!

What engineering you doing?

c_man

nboard wrote: »

im doing an engineering course starting this monday and im just wodering how many hours approx will i be spending in a lecture hall and not having fun

You'll usually be in college 9-4/5. Second is the more intense in terms of amount of subjects undertaken. Third year is shortened due to PEP (a placement with a company) and then it's smack, straight into final year.

Overall there's a hell of a lot more hours than other courses. Still it's worth it though.

nboard

Doing enery systems engineering!!!
green energy for the smart economy??? i hopes so!!

Rob!

nboard wrote: »

Doing enery systems engineering!!!
green energy for the smart economy??? i hopes so!!

Just heading into 2nd yr energy systems.

If ya go to the maths/chem tutorials too (which are genuinely very helpful) then you're touching on around 40 hours a week give or take.

You'll be jealous of your friends in arts with their 8 hour timetable for the 1st month or so but in general you won't notice the longer days at all.

Oh and I hope you love all those nice early starts @ 9am! :P

wobbles-grogan

Theres no harm getting up at 8 for college really. Gets you used to the real world :-)

Or you could be like everyone else and not go in!

theintern

wobbles-grogan wrote: »

Theres no harm getting up at 8 for college really. Gets you used to the real world :-)

Or you could be like everyone else and not go in!

Or, wobbles, we could be like you and not show up at all

It's kinda true that you don't notice the hours after a while, you're just in college all day every day and that's it. Plus you end up hanging around with lots of engineers who are in the same boat.

2nd year is a tough one, lots of projects, lots of hours, but the hours start to ease off in 3rd and 4th year (even if the projects don't!)

the-island-man

wobbles-grogan wrote: »

Theres no harm getting up at 8 for college really. Gets you used to the real world :-)

Or you could be like everyone else and not go in!

No harm when ya don't come in smellin' of whiskey!:pac:

Yes Engineering is a tough course at times but it was mostly enjoyable over the four years!

theintern

the-island-man wrote: »

No harm when ya don't come in smellin' of whiskey!:pac:

Yes Engineering is a tough course at times but it was mostly enjoyable over the four years!

Nice one

Posting on boards can be fun when people know who you are IRL..

wobbles-grogan

theintern wrote: »

Nice one

Posting on boards can be fun when people know who you are IRL..

Makes me

Makes ireland seem even smaller than it already does... isnt that right ste....er... island man?

the-island-man

I can't figure out who "theintern" is! I'm thinking it's Sh*** Mc****** due to some of the posts he's made or else one of the other Sligo lads!

martin699

whiteman19 wrote: »

yeah i'm probably going to have to do a postgrad, but that's cos i want to teach so i'd need to do a HDip anyway.
but i've only 16 hours/week in total this year (including labs but not tutorials) so i don't really care

what engineering degree did you do out of interest?

sorry man... only saw this now... finished Electronic and Computer Engineering there this year... along with wobbles-grogan and the-island-man and possibly theintern as well but not sure on that last one...

the-island-man

martin699 wrote: »

sorry man... only saw this now... finished Electronic and Computer Engineering there this year... along with wobbles-grogan and the-island-man and possibly theintern as well but not sure on that last one...

Yep "theintern" was in our class just think compsoc and ubuntu and you'll know who he is!

wobbles-grogan

Yep "theintern" was in our class just think compsoc and ubuntu and you'll know who he is!

That tool.....

the-island-man

wobbles-grogan wrote: »

That tool.....

Harsh!
Out of college now, I think we should value keeping in contact.

BTW i'm not opinionated at all !

theintern

the-island-man wrote: »

Harsh!
Out of college now, I think we should value keeping in contact.

BTW i'm not opinionated at all !

You should be plenty opinionated...after the craic that was had in cuba...

the-island-man

When I wrote that I was like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPiGJBHVadA

wobbles-grogan

Wow, you guys really hijacked this thread. Not cool...

the-island-man

wobbles-grogan wrote: »

Wow, you guys really hijacked this thread. Not cool...

SSSSsssshhhhh

It's all relative :pac:....... to 1st year Eng. We are imparting valuable knowledge!

colcar

Rob! wrote: »

Just heading into 2nd yr energy systems.

If ya go to the maths/chem tutorials too (which are genuinely very helpful) then you're touching on around 40 hours a week give or take.

You'll be jealous of your friends in arts with their 8 hour timetable for the 1st month or so but in general you won't notice the longer days at all.

Oh and I hope you love all those nice early starts @ 9am! :P

alright rob, just wondering if you could give me some info on your course i am hoping to do it next year and ghave applied for both the NUIG one and GMIT one and was wondering what are the major differences in the courses? do you know anyone in the other one and which would you think is better? sorry lots of questions thee but any info at all would be appreciated.