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I had Civil Engineering I and II in my ME program. It followed
Statics
and
Design.

Out of curiosity.....where you in a 'college of enginneering'
majoring
in
mechanical, or were you in a 'college of mechanical
engineering'?....

BSME Purdue University 1993. It was the "Schools of Engineering"
Mechanical
Engineering degree. In April of this year, they renamed the "Schools
of
Engineering" the "Colleges of Engineering". Purdue also offered a
"Mechanical Engineering Technology" (MET) degree...but I believe it
was
offered by the Schools of Technology.

So you did get a 'real' mechanical engineering degree. :-)

I lived with an MET guy. He'd always ask "how do you guys remember off
the
top of your head that g=9.806 m/s^2"?

Answer: Uh, 'cause we used it about a gazillion times in our calculations
each day.

The MET guys knew the hands-on stuff better however.

What I meant was Getting a BSME as opposed to a BE majoring in mechanical
:-)



Here's a link of the program I attended:
http://tools.ecn.purdue.edu/ME/Undergrad/index283.whtml

The CE classes I took were technical electives. I had a difficult
time
visualizing the concepts of fluid mechanics and heat and mass
transfer.
I
preferred things that I could visualize a little bit easier...like
Statics,
Dynamics, and Structural Design.

So the CE classes where not required.

I had the difficult time with Eng. Calculus

Especially Calc. II. I believe that covered Fourier transforms?

It was a few (well many) years back..........diffy qs went right by
me.......but I was more concerned about my design studios


and quantum physics.....two
area I never had and will never have a need for. :-)

I agree once again. Things I could visualize, I did well in. Things that
required plugging and chugging variables into the 3rd derivative of an
equation made no sense to me.