UL Advanced entry

Adham11 wrote: »

I've applied for advanced entry into year 3 for mechanical engineering. I'm a bit worried though as I really do want to get in. My overall average for second year at the WIT was 84 overall with a few 90s here and there, so I was just hoping anyone here might have any info that might ease the anxiety a bit about this whole thing. Or if anyone here applied for advanced entry into anything this year too

I have no idea if you'll get in or not, but just keep in mind that the 3rd year mechanical engineers will be on co-op placement from June of 2nd year, and all throughout the first semester of 3rd year. They only come back to college Semester 2 of third year. You might want to find out whether or not you have to complete co op as well, or just start when the rest are back in semester 2

Hi Adham11, I've just finished the Mech. Deg in UL. I entered into year 2 after some years working, I also know some guys who joined in year 3, like yourself, from IT's. You'll do most Semester 3 (1st semester of 2nd year) modules with second year students, Thermo 1, Solids 1, Applied Mechanics, CAD, you'll also do a transfer maths module giving to the 3rd year transfer students, its grand, takes you through calculus, bit of differential equations, some Laplace if theres time. Then after xmas you'll join the 3rd years when they return from coop. Then you'll do, Maths6 (Vector calculus, PDE's) its also the last pure math module youll do, Finite Element Analysis, Thermo 2, Solids 2, Heat Transfer.

Any transfer I met found the first semester easy and did very well, easily getting some A's as they had done most of the subjects, but be careful in the second semester as the two semesters you do as a transfer wont have equal weighting, your second semester will have a higher weighting. 60-40 i think, but you should ask to be sure.

Good luck with it