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My degree will be in Engineering Physics from UIUC. I'll be graduating with an engineering degree

Would I have to take these courses now or will they make me take them when I begin the program?

Is 3.5 "good"?

Hello all, I am going to finish my under-grad degree in EPhysics in about a little bit over a year so it's time to pick post-graduate plans. I decided to go to grad school for a Masters in engineering, particularly Mechanical. I was wondering is this plausible? I know mechanical...

This is pretty much all of truth summed up for you. Couldn't have said it better myself.

I don't know where you heard that, but I know people who are almost done with doing it. Up to you really. there's no such thing as a "half-baked" double major. The "worst" type of double major is one where they don't cross-list in terms of classes. You do what you're interested in.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I guess I've heard a load of bullocks then. I figured completion time doesn't matter as much as how your grades, GRE, which courses you've taken (grad courses perhaps), etc.

You're absolutely right. I didn't mean for what I said to be taken as general. My school's EPhysics is very just normal physics graduate preparation. It really depends on your school.

Physics and Aerospace is a popular one. You can do almost anything with Mechanical Engineering, to be frank. It's really broad; I know Mechanical engineers that went on to do Environmental Engineering (Green power, etc.) all the way to cars, machines, etc. Mechanical is general and having the...

Yeah, I definitely want to learn my mathematics from a Math class. I need to see it get done formally first with all its details shown. When the Physics rolls around, I don't mind if they use it informally. This is usually the kind of mental frame I've had since I began studying Physics.

Haha, I totally understand. Physicists teach physics and use a language you already should know. I take on the analogy that how can you teach English to a foreigner while reciting Shakespeare. It's one of the reasons I am afraid to start of going into something like GR without knowing its Math.

I am in an "Engineering Physics" program, and I can tell you it's the same thing as a Physics degree. The difference between Engineering Physics and normal Physics-LAS at my school is that Engineering Physics has more concentrations besides the normal Professional Physics(which is just more...

I will keep that in mind, and check out those references when I get the chance. Thanks, ill try to :). I will be done with my Physics degree as an undergraduate fairly soon, and having taken a Stellar Astrophysics course along with an Intro to Cosmology, it's definitely the sub-field I want...

Applications of the calculus to the study of the shape and curvature of curves and surfaces; introduction to vector fields, differential forms on Euclidean spaces, and the method of moving frames for low- dimensional differential geometry. ^ That is the description of Diff Geometry at my...