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exboyfil

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1. That is something I noticed about
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 06:19 AM
Sep 2012

my some of my daughter's engineering classes. They are offering less credit hours for the same work than I experienced when I went through engineering 30 years ago.

Statics has gone from 3 to 2 credit hours (it meets 3 hours/wk like my course except 1 of the hours is a recitation section)

Circuits was two courses for 4 credit hours but it is now 1 course of 3 hours (meets 4 hours/wk)

The Calculus I-II sequence used to be 5 credit hours each. It is now 4 credit hours each.

In general it appears that additional content has been packed into the major without increasing the credit load.



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