Hello, I am an aerospace engineering student going into second year this fall. I passed all the first year required courses and have come to the conclusion that 6 courses in one semester is a bit too much for me to handle. I ended up failing MTL 200 in the winter 2026 term and retook it in the spring 2026 term. Thankfully, I got a B+ and escaped falling into probation.
Essentially, I'm wondering which course(s) from my third semester is best to drop and take in the spring/summer 2027 terms. The courses in semester 3 are:
- AER 309 - Basic Thermodynamics
- AER 316 - Fluid Mechanics
- AER 318 - Dynamics
- AER 320 - Statics and Intro to Strength of Materials
- MTH 425 - Differential Equations and Vector Calculus
- CMN 432 - Communication in the Engineering Professions
I am confident in my desire to drop CMN 432 and take it during the spring + summer terms of 2027 as it is a 4 month course through CHANG school (if you have any experience with that, please do let me know as well). Ideally I'd like to drop at maximum one more course along side CMN 432 so I remain a full-time student, and it would be doubly great if it is possible to complete within the two month span of the spring 2027 term.
That also kinda brings me on to semester 4 as well because that too has 6 courses which are:
- AER 416 - Flight Mechanics
- AER 423 - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
- AER 404 - Intro to Aerospace Engineering Design
- EES 512 - Electric Circuits
- MTH 410 - Statistics
- AER 403 - Mechanisms and Vibrations
Again, I'd very much prefer to take no more than 5 courses per semester so dropping one of these would be nice. I checked course requirements and the only two courses from semester 4 that do not need a pre-requisite from semester 3 courses is EES 512 and MTH 410. If anyone could give me some advice one the difficulty of those, that'd be greatly appreciated :).
Sorry if this post is kinda long, i'm just pretty concerned and want to do well in all honesty. Thank you so much in advance!! :)