I am interested in University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Engineering and I would like to know more about it than the site offers. I live in California and it is unlikely that I will travel to Michigan soon.
Can you tell me about how the teachers choose to teach, like lectures, homework, classwork, group work, specific class sizes and just about the academic program in general. Do they just lecture a lot in class and expect you to fill in the gaps by studying outside of class for the test or do they do group work and classwork in class and give homework.
You will have to devote a lot of time outside of class to studying. Lectures are helpful depending on professor. For intro courses, your lecture can have hundreds of people. Once you get to upper level courses, your lecture can have as little as 10 people.
Most of the time, you will be given weekly homework assignments which you will have a week to complete. They tend to only be worth 10% to 15% of your grade (or occasionally up to 20%), which is just enough to get you to do it. Exams carry a lot of weight in determining your grade, and it is common for instructors to aim for 60% averages to be able to rank students (i.e., separate the A students, B students, C students, etc.).