First year Electrical & Electronic Engineering in Curtin

[u/Royal-Past2203]

Hi everyone,

I’ll be starting Diploma of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic stream), leading to Year 2 of the Bachelor of Engineering in Feb 2027.

I currently feel that my weaker areas are Calculus and Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. If there are any current students or seniors who have completed these units, I would really appreciate your advice on how to prepare and aim for 75%+.

In particular, are the lecture notes, tutorials and reference materials provided by Curtin/Curtin College sufficient for doing well, or would you recommend using additional textbooks, YouTube courses or other resources? Appreciate your help!

[u/Impossible_Most_4518]

study study study that’s the way

[u/Rich-Birthday-3662]

Just do all the questions from the tutorials and don’t get behind. If you can’t go to the tutorials, have a good crack and when you get stuck use ai to show you how to do it. YouTube videos can be really helpful too

I found ELEN quite tricky at the start but I did heaps of questions and it clicked. Finished with 94% and I’m not that good at maths.

For calculus, make sure you have a good foundation before the unit starts. I hadn’t studied maths in 8 years when I started first year units and to prepare I did as much of the content on Kahn Academy as I could. When I struggled with calculus for engineers I went there to learn the really basic versions of the questions and then got ai to teach me the harder stuff.

It’s all doable you just have to study hard and do the questions quite a few times.

Good luck 🫡

[u/Valuable-Pin-7636]

Definitely lock in on your calculus stuff cause U gotta do calc 2 next year I believe and apparently that shits REALLY hard