UCSC CE & EE Departments' fulfillment of Professional Component A

The professional component includes one year of a combination of college level mathematics and basic sciences (some with experimental experience) appropriate to computer engineering.

These courses help fulfill this professional component:

1. CE16 via all Core Topics
2. CE16H via all Core Topics
3. CE107 via all skills and core topics
4. CS101 via all core topics
5. CS104a via Skills 1a, 1b, 2a, 2e, 2f, and Topics 3 and 5
6. CS104b via Core topics 3d, 4a and 4b
7. MA19AB via all Core Topics
8. MA23AB via all Core Topics
9. AMS10 via all Core Topics
10. AMS20 via all Core Topics
11. AMS27 via all Core Topics
12. AMS147 via all skills and core topics
13. EE70 via skills, core topics, and core lab exercises
14. EE80t via all skills and core topics
15. EE136 via all skills and core topics
16. EE145 via all skills, core topics, and labs
17. Chem1bc/mn via all skills and core topics
18. Phys5abcd via all skills

In the following section, representatives from each department talk about how their students fulfill this component, how it is monitored, and what the feedback loops are.

1. The CE department's monitoring and feedback (as written by Kevin Karplus)
   Component A requires a year of math and science, which is exceeded by our requirements. All students must take the following math courses:
   1. CE 16,
   2. Math 19A, Math 19B,
   3. Math 23A, Math 23B,
   4. ENG 27,
   5. CE 107
      and the following science classes:
   6. Physics 5A and Physics 5C.
   Although these 9 courses would meet the ABET minimum, we also require that the students take one and a half to two additional science courses:
   1. Physics 5B and Physics 5C
   2. or Chem 1B and 1C
   3. or Earth Science 10 and a 100-level Earth Sciences class
   4. or Chem 1B and (Biology 20A or 21A)
   All the physics and chemistry classes include required labs.

   We get short-term feedback on the math and science courses from the subsequent use of the material in other classes (particularly EE70) and from the core exam (which includes questions from CE 107).

   Our only long-term feedback on the math and science courses is the generic questions in the exit, alumni, and employer surveys: "Based on your experiences in the SOE, how well prepared do you feel you are to apply your knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering?"

2. The EE department's monitoring and feedback (as written by Hamid Sadjadpour)
   The EE department tests this component by requiring our student to keep a minimum GPA to admit or maintain in the major which includes basic mathematic and science courses(short-term) and quiz at the beginning of each class (short-term) and undergraduate office by checking each student and encouraging them to choose one advisor to check their progress and finishing their minimum science requirements (short-term) and a survey exit at the end of their graduation to check their capabilities (mid-term) and finally alumni and employer survey (long-term) to track students' success and capabilities in applying mathematics and basic science in their work.