I can finally close the book that was this past semester. All of my marks have been posted and I have no failures! For the past two (academic) years, I’ve been carrying over 2 failures per year but this has changed this year. Quite frankly, it’s nice to have no zeroes showing up on my transcript.
Now that it’s over, I’m looking forward to next term and the courses I will be taking:
- Electrical Engineering 2CJ4 – Circuits and Systems: Advanced circuit analysis including dependent sources; Laplace transforms with applications; frequency response; 2-port networks; coupled circuits; power relationships; magnetic circuits.
- Commerce 3MC3 – Applied Marketing Management: This course builds upon material in COMMERCE 2MA3 but is more applied in nature and covers the 4 P’s in greater depth. It also has a heavier industrial and service sector component, and relies more on practical, real world cases. A major field project (student teams working with companies) is a critical part of the course.
- Engineering 4A03 – Engineering and Social Responsibility: The historical development of the engineering profession’s concern for social responsibility. Engineering as a cultural activity. The scope and limitations of engineering ethics. The role of the engineering profession in the social control of technological change.
- Statistics 3Y03 – Statistical Analysis for Engineers: Introduction to probability, univariate and multivariate random variables and their distributions, statistical estimation and inference, regression and correlation, decision making, applications.
Of the four I’m mostly looking forward to Engineering 4A03, Engineering and Social Responsibility. I expect it to be quite a bit of work and maybe a bit more difficult than I’m used to since I will have to write (I’m not big on writing, by the way), however, from what I’ve heard, the topics covered are very interesting.
This coming semester will also be the one in which I will tame the monstrosity that is EE2CJ4, Circuits and Systems. It will be my second time through the course and I expect to do well. I will definitely work my hardest to get a mark well above just passing the course.
Here’s to a great new term!
