<p>Okay the course descriptions and all for ENGRI 1110 sound great, so I decided to take it...but they were very vague. What exactly do we do in that class on a day to day basis?</p>
<p>it covers a wide variety of topics in nanotechnology, though none in particular depth. Some of these are doped silicon, p-n junctures, mosfets, various lithography techniques such as wet and dry etching, sputtering, etc, optics such as fiber optic cables, snells law, waveguides, tensile strength of materials, carbon nanotubes and graphene, magnetism, hard drives, hysterisis loops, quantum tunneling, afm and stm microscopes, various biotech examples, gecko foot, nanoshells, bunch of other ones, batteries, fuel cells, and some stuff I’m forgetting.</p>
<p>The day to day of class consists of listening to the professor lecture on said topics while looking at powerpoint slides about them.</p>
<p>There is a final project which is assigned half way through the course where you are split into small groups and given some nanotech topic to research and then in the last 2 weeks of the course all the groups present about the topic for 15 minutes.</p>
<p>This is of course assuming its the same as last fall.</p>
<p>So is there a lot of homework/quizzes to be studied for? Or is the final project the majority of your grade?</p>
<p>no quizzes, one midterm and one final, and 5 or 6 or so homeworks</p>
<p>btw the final project didn’t really take all that much time. Each person is responsible for like 2 slides and 3 minutes of talking.</p>
<p>I sat in on that class last fall when I was there for Engineering DHW, and it sucked. I’d say about 1/3 of the class was asleep, and one prick kept trying to be a genius.</p>
<p>It was only one class though, so I very well may have gotten the wrong one to be in, but it was boring as ****.</p>
<p>in hindsight the material is somewhat interesting and good to know from a general knowledge standpoint since it covers a broad range of topics, but yeah the professor did sort of lecture in a soothing monotone that had the tendency to put people to sleep.</p>
<p>I also took engri 1260 since I wanted to and I’d heard that the professor for it was really good, and I liked that course a lot. Definitely preferred it to 1110, and got an A where as I got a B+ in 1110. However 1260 is only offered in the spring.</p>
<p>Hmm, so what would you say the easiest ENGRI courses that are offered in the fall are?</p>
<p>the computer art one is supposed to be pretty easy</p>
<p>I’ve not yet looked at the time(s) that one is offered; initially I was most interested in 1190 - Biomaterials for skeletal system, but then I was thinking of doing 1110 Nanotechnology because I heard on hear that it was not as difficult…
right now I’m signed up for both, but I should probably unpreenroll from one by tomorrow 4:30, or both and pick a new one. =/</p>
<p>the main reason i went for those two is because currently i’m most interested in materials science as a major</p>
<p>I also saw a 1-credit class in the Spring called Introduction to Materials Science for Freshmen…does anyone know if this is useful to take if you’re strongly considering majoring in MSE?</p>
<p>MSE is only minor I believe.</p>
<p>And you would be 100% wrong in that belief. You’re probably thinking of BME.</p>
<p>lols. hi andy</p>