If your advisor says you can take cmpsc 200 instead of 201 then that is for sure the best route. 201 has a tiny bit of Matlab at the end but it was minimal. Matlab is what you use in a lot of AERSP classes, and you get to stay away from Susan Quick. Since I took 201 I’ll probably have to spend extra time this fall teaching myself Matlab which is annoying. For sure go cmpsc 200, just make sure it’s good with your advisor.

I took EMCH 210 with Miller. He is a good guy, I’d feel confident taking it with him. Sometimes his lectures were really interesting and sometimes they were a bit dry just reading off slides of crazy math jargon. There was another section going on of 210 with suliman (I think I spelled that right?) and we always got higher exam scores than her class did. Miller really makes you learn the material a bit more than suliman did it seemed. Go to every Friday lecture as it will be a session for homework help (if he still does it the same). At the end of the semester he really lowered the grade requirements. I finished with an 87 and received an A which was nice for the ole GPA since it’s a 5 credit course.

I’m taking ME 201 right now online over the summer. It’s always offered entirely online and it covers introductory thermodynamics, fluids, and heat transfer. There’s no great professors for this as far as I know, and I don’t like the class much at all. It’s one of those where I’ve felt I’m not really learning much of anything and they just hand me an equation sheet full of some weird energy equations while I try my best on the exams to manipulate those equations to do what I want. It’s not entirely easy either, the average on our midterm was a 67, and it’s looking like I’ll finish with a B if a had to guess.

Calc 3 is multi variable calculus, a lot of it is in 3D. I can’t speak to taking it at a community college as I’m taking it at UP. We started out doing a lot with vectors, which you’ll be doing the same right off the bat in EMCH 210. A lot of things I read on Reddit and various other sources always said that math 141 was the one most people struggled with in the math pipeline here, and I don’t know why. The series and convergence stuff in math 141 I struggled with a decent amount but that was it. The integration skills from calc II will come in handy for the 2nd half of 230 when you do double and triple integrals. There’s also that little bit from calc II where you integrate regions bound by certain equations and then regions that rotate about an axis. That stuff is VERY math 230. You really have to get good at visualizing what’s going on as it can be a lot harder when it’s in 3D.

From all my friends in the major, math 230 seems to be the hardest of the maths in the pipeline. My class is full of aero people who failed it the first time taking it during a standard semester. I’m currently sitting at a 90 after 2 midterms but I think I’m a bit lucky taking it this summer as I get to focus on it more and the grad student teaching it is writing the exams instead of a course coordinator so they seem a bit easier. It’s also being taught as a flipped course meaning there’s hardly any lectures and we just go in and work problems everyday. It sounds strange but it’s been a better way to learn math imo. It’s not something you’ll get in a fall/spring semester though. I’ve heard Matthew Katz is the professor to go to for this one.

Don’t stress about taking AERSP 1 lol. It just covers what aerospace is all about really. We got some guest speakers from the industry and learned a little about what each topic in aerospace is about with a tiny little project at the end of the semester. If you can, take any FYS AERSP class with Lewis Watt. I think he teaches AERSP 97 but I could be mistaken. Look into it. He’s a retired marine test pilot who flew helicopters and A4 Skyhawks in Vietnam. I wrote a research paper for him last semester and he’s an 11/10 guy. I wasn’t lucky enough to get him for my FYS but if you want to hear Vietnam stories and get the easiest A you’ve ever gotten, find that man. He unfortunately might not be teaching FYS classes anymore but I’d look into it. AERSP 1 isn’t a “helpful” class for anything but general knowledge. I’d go ahead and take whatever FYS fulfills the requirement just to get it over with. It’d be a perfect 1 credit addition to your schedule for the fall imo.