<p>… sound highly accomplished. But there are doubtlessly profs at UCLA (and USC) that are doing pioneer research in nanotechnology, fluid, and thermodynamics, etc, also.</p>
<p>But the idea of supplementing textbooks with the profs own materials is nothing new. When I said engineering students were taught from a textbook, this would be different than an English class, say, that would use 10 novels and reference books all at the discretion of the prof. These classes are more free-flowing than the sciences, which are much, much more textbook bound. There’s less wiggle-room in course material in science courses for profs because the materials the students in these classes have to be taught to the students and conveyed by the prof by quarter/semester’s end, or else the student could have added less foundation. </p>
<p>Intro chem, calculus, physics courses are strictly textbook bound and taught generally by lesser-known profs, in generally, larger lecture settings, with even less wiggle room of “freelance.” Nice embellishment, nonetheless.</p>
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<p>So they wrote all the textbooks, another nice embellishment. And they supplemented their textbooks with their own materials, bypassing the textbooks they all wrote and used in all these classes. Nice thinking, UCB.</p>