Engineering possible without physics or specialist in VCE?

[Gokart#5]

Hi there!

One quick question. I am wanting to go into finance, but want to keep my options open incase I want to do engineering. So far my subjects for year 11 are:

english
accounting 3+4
Methods 1+2
Business Management 3+4
Economics 1+2
Japanese 1+2

I don't have physics or specialist. If I chose to do engineering at say Deakin where the only pre-requisite is methods, how hard would that be. I heard that it is almost impossible! So my question is, will I still be able to do engineering without physics or specialist?
I consider myself to be pretty smart, but how hard is it? Is there any way around this? Has anyone tried this before? And any other opinions on my subjects are welcome!

Thanks in advance! 

[keltingmeith]

What are you hearing about it being impossible? About what being impossible?

You can do it, it's definitely possible, I have a friend who did it who's now a mechanical engineer, and another who's now a chemical engineer. I wouldn't worry about what others say - if it was impossible, the uni wouldn't let you do it, because it would make their employment and graduation numbers look bad. It's definitely possible

[lacitam]

Hi there!

One quick question. I am wanting to go into finance, but want to keep my options open incase I want to do engineering. So far my subjects for year 11 are:

english
accounting 3+4
Methods 1+2
Business Management 3+4
Economics 1+2
Japanese 1+2

I don't have physics or specialist. If I chose to do engineering at say Deakin where the only pre-requisite is methods, how hard would that be. I heard that it is almost impossible! So my question is, will I still be able to do engineering without physics or specialist?
I consider myself to be pretty smart, but how hard is it? Is there any way around this? Has anyone tried this before? And any other opinions on my subjects are welcome!

Thanks in advance! 

It's definitely not impossible ofc, but it's probably best if you do physics + and maybe some concepts for spesh. Have a mate that does engineering at Monash and only got a 30 study score for methods and apparently he's doing well in the maths subjects there.

I didn't do engineering, however I did do an engineering core unit at Deakin (Engineering Physics) which does assume some knowledge (i.e you go straight into application of newton's law). I think Deakin engineering is more lax in terms of content, whereby you probably won't go too deep into specialist maths (this is the case for biomedicine here at Deakin). Monash and unimelb are more content-heavy from what I heard.

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Yeah I know a few people who did that at Monash. You need to do both Foundation Physics and Maths though (if you go to monash) which are 2 units (around $2000) so it would probably be better to do it in VCE but it's not a requirement.

[keltingmeith]

Yeah I know a few people who did that at Monash. You need to do both Foundation Physics and Maths though (if you go to monash) which are 2 units (around $2000) so it would probably be better to do it in VCE but it's not a requirement.

Note that those units are not extra and so won't cost you more. You can make the argument that you could've filled them with a different unit that you'd find more interesting, but it's not going to cost you more to not do physics or specialist in year 12

[schoolstudent115]

Hi there!

One quick question. I am wanting to go into finance, but want to keep my options open incase I want to do engineering. So far my subjects for year 11 are:

english
accounting 3+4
Methods 1+2
Business Management 3+4
Economics 1+2
Japanese 1+2

I don't have physics or specialist. If I chose to do engineering at say Deakin where the only pre-requisite is methods, how hard would that be. I heard that it is almost impossible! So my question is, will I still be able to do engineering without physics or specialist?
I consider myself to be pretty smart, but how hard is it? Is there any way around this? Has anyone tried this before? And any other opinions on my subjects are welcome!

Thanks in advance! 

It is definitely possible. The maths will be covered well in the first year, and you can to an introductory course usually if you haven't done spec, so that's not an issue. Only thing I'd say is it'd be good to familiarise yourself with basic kinematics, and potentially statics (inclined planes, pulleys). You can probably pick up kinematics pretty quickly.

[Gokart#5]

Thanks for the responses guys, makes me feel more confident I am keeping my options open