QUOTE(thesoothsayer @ Jan 14 2017, 06:17 AM)
Bit late to the game, but if you're not really good in maths, you'll suffer in EnE. In saying that, there's been a whole lot of dumbing down of math topics in universities, even overseas.
Price wise, UTAR and TARUC are the cheapest, but TARUC is not accreditated yet (I think) by the Engineering Accreditation Council.
MMU, Uniten, and UTP used to have good reputations. Not sure about now, but their syllabi are more mature.
Switching is not that hard in private universities, but you'll need to retake some subjects.
What I'd suggest is dif youo your degree locally and go overseas for your master's/PhD plan to do that, and can't get a scholarship right now for your bachelor's.
UTAR's 3E degree isn't too bad. The President is an IEEE Fellow and emphasises a lot on 3E. 2 of the 3 VPs are also from 3E background. It's more focused on electrical rather than electronics/software, but you can always pick software up on your own.
If you have interest in moving to the software side of things for electrical & electronic engineering like embedded systems, networking, etc., MMU used to be strong in that area. Not sure about now, though.
Source: Former EEE lecturer.
Well thank you for the reply for this post.
To be honest, I'm not sure I'm capable of doing Engineering with my Mathematics (55% D) and Physics (62% C) for my A-levels, despite the minimum requirement for most Private Uni is 2Es and above, because I was devoted myself to Chemistry and Biology as they were my stronger subjects, because I thought it I might be going to Biotech, but it is not a demanding field in Malaysia job prospect wise, and discouragement from my parents.
Hence, I thought why not Robotics and Electronics through EEE? But it was hard to handle 4 subjects with A-Levels, but me myself, and my lecturers couldn't let me really understand Maths and Physics as they just literally just copied from the textbook, unlike my Chemistry and Biology lecturer teaches using slides and checkpoint lectures.
I have still around 8 months before I official chose my university, I'm not sure will be retaking my A-Levels for Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics for May/June to improve better marks to get into a better university or apply for scholarships.
To be honest, UTAR is okay, but I'm not sure the quality of lecturer teaching nowadays.
I'm afraid I will meet someone like my A-Level Physics lecturer, a PhD Holder, but don't know how to engage with the lecture, explain proper concepts, and derive equations. But just everyday copy his hand written notes on the board. And read through it that's all.
But the complaints I heard from UTAR which are unprofessional marking by lecturers, who some purposely/unintentionally failed students in mostly humanities courses, and students have to pay for a remark for the paper to found out they didn't done that poorly can even get a good grade.
Meanwhile for MMU, I don't think I plan to go there since they apparently split Electrical and Electronics to two programs. So I'm not so keen on that.
UNITEN I'm still looking into it. But not sure how's the environment there tho.
UTP I can't consider as I underdelivered for Mathematics by roughly 5%...
Do you have any regards on UCSI tho?
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If I'm going to restudy for Pre-U Mathematics from STPM and A-Level Syllabus,
Which Topics should I be specifically emphasize on, if I'm still dedicated into this field?
Algebra
Logarithmic and Exponential Functions
Trigonometry
Differentiation
Integration
Numerical Solutions of Equations
Vectors
Differential Equations
Complex Numbers
Sequences and Series
Matrices
Analytic Geometry
Maclaurin Series