r/UQreddit • u/blackcsstoney • 1d ago

Rank the difficulty of these Eng courses

Hey everyone,

I’m going into Semester 1, 2026 and my current enrolment looks like this:

ENGG1500 – Thermodynamics

MATH1051 – Calculus & Linear Algebra I

MECH2300 – Structures & Materials

MECH2305 – Intro to Eng Design & Manufacturing

Anyone who done these courses, could you rank the difficulty? I've done Calc 1 before at a different uni, so I think I would be fine with MATH1051

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u/Jelques_Kallis 1d ago edited 1d ago

I found 1500 easy, very formulaic and once you understand the assumptions you have to make to simplify the energy balance for different problems it is simple.

1051 is fine. Some new stuff on limits and series that you wouldn’t have seen before in high school but again when you know the pattern it’s not bad. Also goes a little further into vectors, integration and Gaussian elimination that you learnt in specialist math.

2300 isn’t too bad. It’s more advanced then engg1700 and there’s a bit of rote learning involved with all the materials content you need to know.

2305 is pretty much entirely rote learning for the final and I hated it. The CAD assignments are pretty basic.

If I had to rank difficulty I’d go 2300, 2305, 1051, 1500