A full load is four subjects and 50 points each semester. Courses in engineering disciplines are made up of compulsory core subjects complemented with elective or optional subjects. To a large degree, the subjects making up the later years of the courses are part of the compulsory core and therefore prescribed. It is not possible to take a set of first year subjects that will satisfy all the second year prerequisites for all the streams of engineering. However, there are first year courses which satisfy a number of sub-sets of the second year of engineering streams.
Full detail is included in material available at enrolment.
All first year engineering courses require students to take 25 points of mathematics. There are two streams available. Both streams satisfy prerequisites for the further mathematics required in second year. Students taking the advanced mathematics in first year may take further advanced mathematics in second year. Dr. F Barrington, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics' director of first-year studies, will advise incoming students as to which stream should be selected.