<p>I'm at CC still working on my Engineering Technology degree and I can safely say that it's all good except this one teacher in particular is working my nerves.</p>
<p>His teaching method is just so unorthodox and time wasting that I really want to transfer to the nearest University one and a half hours away to complete his 3 courses.</p>
<p>It's just so annoying, he deliberately makes assignments as long, tedious and time consuming as humanly possible just because he can. This dude picks a few assignments from the book and wants us to turn them in for test credit. Simple enough right? Nope, the dude wants us to type every question, redraw every figure required to solve the question--preferably in word!--and use different colors for current, voltage and resistance, under the pretense that he wants us to be "neat and professional". I really don't want to spend 6 hours typing up and making word drawing for some damn questions that only took me 2 hours max to figure out how to solve.</p>
<p>***!? Is it common to have teachers that arbitrarily over complicate assignments?</p>
<p>Let me answer in simple terms.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>In the mid 90’s after working in industry for a while I returned to grad engineering school at Purdue. Having the experience of producing professional reports, charts, etc was nothing new to me but I could tell my work was way more ‘professional’ than most of my classmates in terms of appearance, organization, etc. Not necessarily content, we all had the right answers, but some looked like better than others…</p>
<p>Fast forward 15 years and I’m reviewing projects from Purdue in a class I took as a graduate student. The quality - presentation etc - of the work was outstanding, I mean, wow. Granted, kids are taught PowerPoint in middle school now, and granted, tools are better now, but still… So the bar has been lifted…</p>
<p>Maybe you can do what the prof wants but simplify a bit and save some time?</p>
<p>I should send you copies of my circuits lab reports. Yes formatting is important. We used PSpice to make our designs, drawing circuit diagrams any other way (ms paint?) would be painfully slow. Are you using anything like that?</p>
<p>Ghostayame, what your teacher expects in your report sound a bit too much.</p>
<p>What I find most annoying is when people don’t bother to show the steps they took towards the final answer. What the teacher likes to see besides the final answer is the clarity of your thinking and that is reflected in the intermediate steps you show in your report.</p>
<p>@turbo93: That’s another thing, we don’t do lab reports? We were only responsible for doing ONE 3-part lab report based on the diode, and use a multimeter to observe the current change via the resistor attached to the emitter. </p>
<p>@UWHuskyDad: I don’t mind doing the work, but what I despise if doing an excessive amount of work as though I have no other classes just because he feels as though that will make me a “better person”. My point in the post is to ask really if I’m reasonable in wanting to transfer to a university with an ELET program and just taking the course that he teaches there. The time I spent typing up and coloring that bis is time I can spend actually learning relevant material. But I couldn’t tell him that, he’s sternly convinced that he’s god and he knows what it takes to make great engineering technology students.</p>