I know this course is probably going to pretty tough but I wanted to get a feel for who you guys felt was the best teacher and the one I should avoid at all costs. The ones teaching it in the fall are

RAMASUBRAMANI
HOWARD
SILVERBERG
KLANG

thanks

4/13/2006 6:55:21 AM

http://thewolfweb.com/school_course.aspx?department=MAE&coursenumber=206

4/13/2006 8:57:46 AM

I had Silverberg . . . the guy is mad smart and doesn't ever have to look at the book. He makes you buy a book he is the author or co-author of.

Teaches from his book and does random examples that don't really help with the HW problems that come from the actual text book.

Tests were 3 problems, one from the HW, one doing a derivation from his book, and one "new problem."

If you made it through the class with a decent grade, you knew the material.

4/13/2006 1:00:58 PM

Find out if MORTON is teaching it. I would take summer school to get that guy, best teacher I have ever had in MAE. I had silverberg for 208, I hate the class.

4/13/2006 1:19:57 PM

Consider yourself lucky Manoel Gonzalez died of cancer. Cool guy. Pretty good teacher. But I think he deliberately was harsh in grading and tried to make it difficult to do well to weed out those who weren't serious about engineering. When I tried to register for his class it was full with 75 people. Tons of people dropped it and everyone on the waitlist got into the class. By the end of the semester only about 30 people were around for the final.

4/13/2006 2:36:26 PM

klang teaches it?

haha, i have him for senior design, i couldn't see him actually teaching a class

4/13/2006 3:20:56 PM

you can sign up for CE 214 and then take it with Dr. Parish. They count that as equivalent since its just the civil eng. statics.

4/13/2006 4:04:11 PM

^ yeah but it is a bitch to get it worked out so that it counts in your degree audit

4/13/2006 4:39:47 PM

dont take howard

4/13/2006 6:33:25 PM

Beware of Silverberg. He isn't a bad professor, in fact, he is actually a really good one. It just takes a while to get used to his teaching style. I had him from MAE 461 - Dynamics and Controls and at the beginning of the semester, I thought he was awful. As the semester progressed though, it got easier to understand. I think the problem with him is that he is too smart to be teaching such basic classes. It would be like us teaching a small child how to count to 5.

4/13/2006 6:37:45 PM

For the most part all my undergrad engineering teachers are like that


More about research and teaching grad school


then doing the motions of teaching their undergrad classes

4/13/2006 6:42:17 PM

Quote :

"^ yeah but it is a bitch to get it worked out so that it counts in your degree audit"

if by "bitch" you mean you actually have to go talk to a human being for about 5 minutes, then yeah it's a real bitch

4/13/2006 7:05:37 PM

if you find statics to be hard then save yourself some time and drop out of engineering

4/13/2006 8:18:18 PM

take klang dude

4/13/2006 8:24:22 PM

howard isnt that bad, she curves at the end of the semester, and is a pretty decent grader on tests and with partial credit, you have 11 hw assignments, 1 per week, and 3 tests and a final, they arent too bad once you get the hang of the material.

also she teaches mae314 solid mechanics, so if you take her both classes, you have time to get used to her teaching style.

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4/16/2006 1:26:19 AM