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My university used to have an Engineering Fundamentals class that all Engineering students were required to take their first year. Among several other things,
by shepardrtc 10y ago
My university used to have an Engineering Fundamentals class that all Engineering students were required to take their first year. Among several other things, it taught how to use Excel and more importantly, programming using Fortran. It wasn't in-depth, but you learned what programming was in a pretty easy environment.
- thrownaway2424 10y agoWe had a similar freshman pan-engineering course at Texas A&M that taught both excel and fortran among other things. Probably the most practically useful course in the entire program.
- thaumasiotes 10y agoMy university offered "intro to unix". It wasn't required for anyone, but it did fill a general education requirement. It was also one of the most practical, useful classes they had. A CS student who didn't take it (probably most of them) would still pick up most of the material by osmosis, but I think that class was a great idea.