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Re: Subject review requests
« Reply #90 on: November 28, 2014, 02:23:13 am »
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What exactly would you like to know and for which units in particular?

any of these :


CIV2206 Mechanics of solids
CIV2207 Computing and water systems modelling
CIV2225 Design of steel and timber structures
CIV2226 Design of concrete and masonry structures
CIV2242 Geomechanics 1
CIV2263 Water systems
CIV2282 Transport and traffic engineering

:P Thanks!

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« Reply #91 on: December 04, 2014, 05:11:23 pm »
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any of these :
CIV2206 Mechanics of solids
CIV2207 Computing and water systems modelling
CIV2225 Design of steel and timber structures
CIV2226 Design of concrete and masonry structures
CIV2242 Geomechanics 1
CIV2263 Water systems
CIV2282 Transport and traffic engineering

:P Thanks!
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What exactly would you like to know
:P

Easier this way so I don't waste time telling you stuff you already know or don't want to know.
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Re: Subject review requests
« Reply #92 on: December 04, 2014, 06:27:46 pm »
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and :P

Easier this way so I don't waste time telling you stuff you already know or don't want to know.
Civil Engineering is my desired course after finishing highschool but my questions are on civil engineering in general if that's okay. You can PM me your response if this is too off-topic from the point of this thread.

-How important is chemistry in civil engineering? I don't mind it, but I'd prefer not taking it in VCE.

-How are you finding civil engineering at Monash? Is there a specific reason you chose Monash over Melb uni?

-I've heard from people that studying engineering is extremely stressful and time consuming? I don't mind working hard for all days of the week but I still want to be able balance my social life.

-What stream of civil engineering are you most interested in?

Thanks!
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« Reply #93 on: December 04, 2014, 10:18:14 pm »
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Civil Engineering is my desired course after finishing highschool but my questions are on civil engineering in general if that's okay. You can PM me your response if this is too off-topic from the point of this thread.
I'll just reply here in case other people might have similar questions  :)

-How important is chemistry in civil engineering? I don't mind it, but I'd prefer not taking it in VCE.
Its importance is negligible - I can't recall ever having to recall knowledge from chemistry in any of my units. I'll note that while you don't have to take chemistry in VCE as long as you do physics, you will have to do a foundation chemistry unit in first year as a replacement for one of your three level one electives if you opt not to study it in year 12.

-How are you finding civil engineering at Monash? Is there a specific reason you chose Monash over Melb uni?
I've enjoyed it so far, although after 2 years of doing just engineering I transferred to eng/sci so that I could take a lot more maths units :P I chose Monash over UoM due to the common first year, its reputation for engineering and mostly its location.

-I've heard from people that studying engineering is extremely stressful and time consuming? I don't mind working hard for all days of the week but I still want to be able balance my social life.
Like most university studies engineering can be time consuming and stressful at times. However, if you maintain  reasonable work ethic you should not be find it too challenging. I've managed to balance my studies and social life quite easily but not everyone's the same and there are university services to deal with this.

-What stream of civil engineering are you most interested in?
At this point in time, most likely traffic and transport engineering, although I'm undecided.

Thanks!
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Re: Subject review requests
« Reply #94 on: December 05, 2014, 09:35:06 am »
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-I've heard from people that studying engineering is extremely stressful and time consuming? I don't mind working hard for all days of the week but I still want to be able balance my social life.

Just want to chip in my 2cents regarding Civil Engineering from what I've seen. I have heaps of friends during/just completed their Civil Engineering degree. Generally, I've been told that the concepts in Civil is not that hard to grasp if you put in the work, but there is a TON of group work/design work especially in 3rd and 4th year of the degree.

What this means is that it is going to be extremely time consuming to get a good grade in them. The work required in a design unit to go from a pass (50) to a High Distinction (80) is exponential. I personally salute of my Civil friends who are by far the most hardworking/workaholic stream among the other streams.

In short, even if you're a genius, you will need to sacrifice on your social life is you want to do well in Civil. It is a very time consuming stream (more so than the other streams IMO) and the amount of work you put in is at our discretion as there'll always be things to improve on.

But yeah just come to Monash we have a common first year which then you can decide at the end of it after getting a taste of each stream. Melbourne doesn't allow that option and takes 5 years instead of the standard 4.
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Re: Subject review requests
« Reply #95 on: December 05, 2014, 10:03:32 am »
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Thanks for the insight Phy124 and JinXi. Thinking about what I want to do in uni is frightening..

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Re: Subject review requests
« Reply #96 on: December 05, 2014, 02:33:17 pm »
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Hey everyone hope your enjoying the holidays :)

Has anyone done MTH3310? There currently aren't any reviews and I would find it very helpful to have an opinion. Also for someone who hasn't done next to no MATLAB how would I find MTH3051? It says 'introduction' but I don't want to be fooled haha

Thanks!
Didn't do MTH3310 but had a lot of mates do it this sem. In short, they didn't like it. From what they were saying it seemed to be a lot of material crammed into a short space of time (talking relative to other maths units), and a bit all over the place, although I guess it was the first year they were running it. They had 5 or 6 different lecturers which each focused on a certain topic/area (mostly which was their research area), with the lecturers changing around every 2 or so weeks. Compared to the other 2 maths units they did this sem (MTH3060 and MTH3020), they seemed to be having to put in a lot more time for MTH3310. Again, I didn't take the unit but saw the effects of it, so take this with a grain of salt.

Did MTH3051 in first semester. The assignments will require you to be able to use Matlab, but the exam is purely based on the maths that you learn in the unit, and even then the assignments are a mix of matlab/code and the maths itself. With that being said, I don't think it would be too hard to start off with without any prior matlab coding knowledge (kinda what the unit is for in the science dept), it would be an advantage if you had some prior experience but I don't think it was necessary (a fair few of the eng/sci kids take it because it covers a bit of what we've already covered).

P.S. I think I may have half met you through a friend during the second year physics exams this semester :P
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Re: Subject review requests
« Reply #97 on: December 05, 2014, 02:51:29 pm »
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Didn't do MTH3310 but had a lot of mates do it this sem. In short, they didn't like it. From what they were saying it seemed to be a lot of material crammed into a short space of time (talking relative to other maths units), and a bit all over the place, although I guess it was the first year they were running it. They had 5 or 6 different lecturers which each focused on a certain topic/area (mostly which was their research area), with the lecturers changing around every 2 or so weeks. Compared to the other 2 maths units they did this sem (MTH3060 and MTH3020), they seemed to be having to put in a lot more time for MTH3310. Again, I didn't take the unit but saw the effects of it, so take this with a grain of salt.

I can one up this - I had one friend who just seemed to pour all his revision time into one section of this unit. He asked me to help him with some of the stochastic stuff (because Tim called it assumed knowledge and he'd never seen it), and frankly the "assumed knowledge" was beyond the understanding of second year probability, and looked like things that were taught as assessable knowledge for the third year stochastic units (primarily MTH3241, but I haven't done it as of yet so I don't know for certain if that's the case). Didn't see any of the deterministic stuff, though, so I can't comment on actual content from that way.

Also - needed more effort than MTH3060? As in, the one with a 50% fail rate? Ouch. :o

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Re: Subject review requests
« Reply #98 on: December 05, 2014, 03:24:14 pm »
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Didn't do MTH3310 but had a lot of mates do it this sem. In short, they didn't like it. From what they were saying it seemed to be a lot of material crammed into a short space of time (talking relative to other maths units), and a bit all over the place, although I guess it was the first year they were running it. They had 5 or 6 different lecturers which each focused on a certain topic/area (mostly which was their research area), with the lecturers changing around every 2 or so weeks. Compared to the other 2 maths units they did this sem (MTH3060 and MTH3020), they seemed to be having to put in a lot more time for MTH3310. Again, I didn't take the unit but saw the effects of it, so take this with a grain of salt.

Did MTH3051 in first semester. The assignments will require you to be able to use Matlab, but the exam is purely based on the maths that you learn in the unit, and even then the assignments are a mix of matlab/code and the maths itself. With that being said, I don't think it would be too hard to start off with without any prior matlab coding knowledge (kinda what the unit is for in the science dept), it would be an advantage if you had some prior experience but I don't think it was necessary (a fair few of the eng/sci kids take it because it covers a bit of what we've already covered).

P.S. I think I may have half met you through a friend during the second year physics exams this semester :P


Thanks the heads up about MTH3310! Looks like I may have to rearrange my applied math units for next year for the 100th time. It's so hard because they're all restricted to certain semesters.

Well I was planning to start MTH3051 over the holidays to get my coding up to scratch as I found the tute and lecture notes online (Hopefully they remain relevant for next year!), otherwise most of my friends are eng. so I should have enough help :)

Oh really which friend? I was the short(ish) girl with long brown hair (so descriptive :P) Did you hear that the exams are being scaled by 1.25! It makes me so worried because everyone must have done so bad.

I can one up this - I had one friend who just seemed to pour all his revision time into one section of this unit. He asked me to help him with some of the stochastic stuff (because Tim called it assumed knowledge and he'd never seen it), and frankly the "assumed knowledge" was beyond the understanding of second year probability, and looked like things that were taught as assessable knowledge for the third year stochastic units (primarily MTH3241, but I haven't done it as of yet so I don't know for certain if that's the case). Didn't see any of the deterministic stuff, though, so I can't comment on actual content from that way.

Also - needed more effort than MTH3060? As in, the one with a 50% fail rate? Ouch. :o

Oh no, assumed knowledge is my worst fear haha. Looks like MTH3310 is out!
Is MTH3060 really that hard? I may need it to replace MTH3310 :S
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Re: Subject review requests
« Reply #99 on: December 05, 2014, 09:46:21 pm »
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Has anyone done BCH2011? Thanks :)

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Re: Subject review requests
« Reply #100 on: December 06, 2014, 12:02:28 am »
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I did it this year - thought it was a pretty nice unit. It's set at a fairly introductory level, and basically covers the basics of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates. Martin (the unit coordinator when I took it) is a nice guy, and teaches from first principles quite well. You don't really go into metabolic cycles until BCH2022 though. Labs are decent - make sure you know how to do concentration calculations and prepare solutions though. Coming from actual chemistry labs, these are a bit more relaxed. The midsem test was a bit too long for its 45 min timeframe, but the end-of-semester exam was not too bad if you knew most of the material. Particularly in the first half of semester, you get quite a few practice questions in the lectures themselves, which are helpful.

If you have more specific questions, feel free to PM me or post here!


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« Reply #101 on: January 11, 2015, 04:14:24 pm »
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PHA3011 Principles of Drug Action
PHA3021 Drugs in Disease and Health
CHM3941 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

I would like to know how the labs are, especially if they run all semester.

Thank you :)

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« Reply #102 on: January 22, 2015, 06:32:51 pm »
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FIT2004: Algorithms and data structures
FIT2071: Foundations of C++

I'd love any type of review on these units!

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« Reply #103 on: January 23, 2015, 12:25:53 am »
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PHA3011 Principles of Drug Action
PHA3021 Drugs in Disease and Health
CHM3941 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

I would like to know how the labs are, especially if they run all semester.

Thank you :)

I did CHM3941 in 2014. You'll probably notice that the labs for this subject (as for pretty much all of the major 3rd year Chem subjects) are listed as going for four hours.
I think that we had labs on 9 of the weeks (no lab on first week, last week, and one week in the middle). These were made up of a 3 week prac, 2x2 week pracs, and 2x1 week pracs. Previously, there used to be a third 1-week prac, but they took that out when I did it.

The labs don't necessarily match up with what you're learning in lectures. I think in your starting lab, you'll learn about working in an inert atmosphere, as some of the reagents you use actually react upon contact with oxygen and water. Also, you get to use the dry ice/nitrogen containers, required when you want to cool things to -78 degrees (or something like that). Your prac manual details what you have to do quite well, and should have a copy of key research papers at the back, for easy reference. You probably won't spend the full four hours on all weeks. Particularly on the multiple-week pracs, working efficiently means that you might be able to leave a bit earlier on the final week. I was probably the slowest person in my lab session, and there were still weeks where I left early.

The lab manual and Moodle have guidelines on how to write your lab reports. I suggest paying attention to the uploaded marking schemes on Moodle - there are specific marks allocated to a bunch of stuff, and unfortunately the lab demonstrators can't give you those marks if they're not in your report. The lab demonstrators are really nice people though. Also, you will probably be expected to look at some research papers and use their findings to help write your discussion in your lab report. Your lab manual will contain a list of suggested papers for each prac - these are well worth reading for an understanding of what is going on.

If you have any other questions, feel free to PM me or to post here! :)


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« Reply #104 on: January 23, 2015, 12:28:12 am »
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Review on any of the following would be appreciated (currently not reviewed)
1. Foundation of Modern Politics ATS1353
2. Terrorism and Political Violence ATS1701
3. Australian Government and Politics ATS1945

Thanks :) :)