Research, Credit for Prior Learning, and Triple Majoring Questions
I am a rising electrical engineering freshman and I was wondering about the following.
- Does UVA have any credit for prior learning policies besides that for AP and IB.
- Who would be a good professor to run some of my independent research by?
- Any recommendations on how I should approach triple majoring in pure math, EE, and physics and still graduating early?
Context for Q1 and Q3
I graduated from my high school with associates in: general engineering, physics, and applied mathematics. This was done independently from the high school, not through programs like dual enrolment so it was a headache to get even one class approved.
However, my transfer credits look like they will be getting me at least 1.5 years off at least EE. Currently its around 1 year, but they haven't processed all my transfer credits yet. I'm not entirely sure about the other majors yet as I wasn't able to find a clear class planning template for them.
I am also a bad non-class-test test taker (partially due to testing anxiety and narcolepsy) so my 3 AP scores aren't high enough to transfer, and I couldn't find any policy for UVA taking my CLEP Chemistry score (I got a 60 something on a 20-80 metric which was good enough for the community college).
With this being said I have been self studying the UW ME564/565 lectures by Steve Brunton as well as Complex Analysis by Richard E Brocherds both on Youtube. I should be done with both lectures some where around the 15th of July. Afterwards Im planning on watching Signals and Systems by Alan Oppenheim, Algebraic Topology from Math at Andrews University which is based on Allen Hatchers textbook, and if I have time Advanced Astrodynamics by Dmitry Savransky (all of these are free on Youtube). I have also been reading "Solving Linear Systems An Analysis of Matrix Prefactorization Iterative Methods" by Zbigniew Ignacy Woznicki which I hope to finish not long after the school year starts.
I'm hoping to use my background in these courses to try to graduate / take classes at a faster pace, but I'm not entirely sure how or what would be the best course of action. My initial thought would be to just take higher course loads but that doesn't seem feasible long term and risks burn out.
Context for Q2
Last semester I also did research on "Modeling Electromagnetic Forces on Ferromagnetic Bodies and Electromagnetic Applications in Normal-Force Reduction for Noise Mitigation in Rail Systems" for which I wrote a ~20 page paper and gave a 30 minute presentation. The main outcome of the project was an equation I made that I would like to verify. It came out of the Kelvin Force Magnetization Density eq and Biot-Savart's Law.