For Current High School Students

Placement in courses for your first semester will depend on how you perform on the ACT or SAT exam. If you do not perform as well as you would have liked, please do consider taking the test again. However, remember that your most recent scores, not the highest scores, will be used for placement.

The engineering degree plans pre-suppose that you will begin the math sequence for engineering at Calculus. This chart shows placement in math courses; find your SAT/ACT score and read across to find which math course is appropriate.

ACT Score	SAT Score	Math Course
11-18	220-440	IS-M 100 - Algebraic Problem Solving
19-21	450-500	Math 120 - Intermediate Algerba
22-24	510-560	Math 121 - College Algerba
25-27	570-630	Math 123 - Trigonometry
25-27	570-630	Math 150 - Precalculus
*28+	640+	Math 162 - Calculus I

* if your score is 28-31, you must take and pass the COMPASS Trig test.

Take a math course every year, including your senior year; it will keep you in practice!

Most engineering students will be required to take the following math sequence:
Math 162 - Calculus I
Math 163 - Calculus II
Math 264 - Calculus III
Math 316 - Applied Ordinary Differential Equations

So you can see it is important to keep your math skills sharp!

Get a Jump Start

Incoming freshmen, get a jump start on your education by attending the Freshman Summer Bridge, an intensive four-week summer residential program. Participants undertake an intensive study of math, English composition, and computer science in preparation for college level work. Students successfully completing the program receive a generous stipend and college credit.

Resources

The JETS e-newsletter is a unique and free publication distributed monthly from September to May. Each issue introduces a different type of engineering career, highlights an "Extreme Engineer" and offers activities to truly help students Explore, Assess and Experience engineering. http://www.jets.org/newsletter/index.cfm

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center (SCCC) is a resource center for those interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Comprehensive education, networking, job hunting, and career planning resources revolve around personal interviews with hundreds of individuals who offer candid insight into their career fields. http://www.careercornerstone.org/

Making The Most Of Your Education

Plan Your Life
Take time to determine your personal needs and desires. Build dreams for the future by asking yourself the following questions:

• What do you see yourself doing five, ten or twenty years from now?
• What are your values and beliefs?
• What type of lifestyle do you want to live?

Reach for the Stars

• Learn to adapt and alter your habits to new situations
• Don't shrink away from challenging or difficult classes
• Build upon your strengths
• Turn failure into process on the learning curve to success

Draw on Other Resources
Experiences outside of your major can be tools for defining your skills and interests:

• Part-time jobs
• Work-study programs
• Extracurricular activities
• Cooperative Education

Do Some Research
Do more than read the pages in the college handbook:

• Talk to faculty in different departments
• Talk to students in different programs
• Talk to students who have graduated and are working in your field
• Look up department home pages on the Net
• Join a professional society and get involved
• Get to know the faculty and their research interests
• Volunteer to work in a department laboratory