NUS Engineering admin sucks
Was very angry today at the Division of Bioengineering. It is an absolutely crappy department. Even worse than my Chemical Engineering Department. My friend got troubled over this issue cause he learned from his friends, who are taking minor in Bioengineering (like me) that we have to fulfil 24 MCs instead of the 6 modules requirement as was the requirement when we took up the minor. He went to email the Bio-dept and got a confirmation that regardless of when u take up the minor, you have to fulfil 24MCs NOW. That is real silly, and I was wondering why he should be worried (cos we went by the rule and did 6 modules worth 22 MCs). Obviously the rule applys to those who appy for the minor this academic year, and not for us who applied 2 years ago. Moreover they did NOT inform us AT ALL of this new ruling and it would be silly to expect us to cram 1 more module for them at our last and only semester just because they feel like changing the ruling.
It is stated clearly in their site
http://www.bioeng.nus.edu.sg/edu/ugrad/minor.htm
Requirements (Applicable to students who registered for the Minor in AY05/06)
To satisfy the Minor in Bioengineering, the students are required to to fulfill at least 24 MCs and ..................
Requirements (Applicable to students who registered for the Minor before AY05/06)
To satisfy the Minor in Bioengineering, the student must read, outside their Major:
Compulsory Multidisciplinary Module BN1901 Principles of Bioengineering (4 MCs) and
3 out of the 15 Multidisciplinary Modules (see Table 3.6). Prerequisites for the LSM modules are waived for all students taking the Minor in Bioengineering except for LSM1401.
a minimum of another 2 Engineering Elective Modules from the following list of electives offered in the Faculty of Engineering
So i was wondering why he even bother to get work up over the issue. However i was more than convinced, from the emails he forwarded me that they really intend not to give us our minor if we did not fulfill 24 MCs given the fact the our department officer spoke to their head and forward us the email.
My goodness, i cannot believe that i am stuck in this silly mess of NUS. I am not going to give in, and right till now, they did not inform us in writing. However the bad news is those few people i know that are taking the minor, my friend decide to take 1 more module just in case, another has 1 more sem left, the other 2 person has taken an extra module by mistake so it did not affect them at all. I will be alone in the situation, but at that moment if they really won't give me my minor, I m sure to kick it up real big (after i got my degree of course). I have save the webpage for reference already.
It is stated clearly in their site
http://www.bioeng.nus.edu.sg/edu/ugrad/minor.htm
Requirements (Applicable to students who registered for the Minor in AY05/06)
To satisfy the Minor in Bioengineering, the students are required to to fulfill at least 24 MCs and ..................
Requirements (Applicable to students who registered for the Minor before AY05/06)
To satisfy the Minor in Bioengineering, the student must read, outside their Major:
Compulsory Multidisciplinary Module BN1901 Principles of Bioengineering (4 MCs) and
3 out of the 15 Multidisciplinary Modules (see Table 3.6). Prerequisites for the LSM modules are waived for all students taking the Minor in Bioengineering except for LSM1401.
a minimum of another 2 Engineering Elective Modules from the following list of electives offered in the Faculty of Engineering
So i was wondering why he even bother to get work up over the issue. However i was more than convinced, from the emails he forwarded me that they really intend not to give us our minor if we did not fulfill 24 MCs given the fact the our department officer spoke to their head and forward us the email.
My goodness, i cannot believe that i am stuck in this silly mess of NUS. I am not going to give in, and right till now, they did not inform us in writing. However the bad news is those few people i know that are taking the minor, my friend decide to take 1 more module just in case, another has 1 more sem left, the other 2 person has taken an extra module by mistake so it did not affect them at all. I will be alone in the situation, but at that moment if they really won't give me my minor, I m sure to kick it up real big (after i got my degree of course). I have save the webpage for reference already.
