What's your opinion on this class. ME feedback is greatly appreciated

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<p>Ok, I go to OSU and I'm not in ME but BME and we have to take this class ME 500 which from the sounds of it has killed a lot of people in our major. </p>

<p>It's a combination of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer all in 10 weeks. What do you learn or do in these classes and what makes them so hard? </p>

<p>Hoping to do well in this along with intro to MSE, Strength and Materials and Circuits.</p>

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<p>You’ll be fine if you work hard and don’t fall behind.</p>

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<p>That isn’t really enough to give a real opinion on the class. You would have to post the course description for us to really tell you how tough it would be.</p>

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<p>One of the toughest classes I took was an Intro to EE for Non-EE Majors. The professor was barely understandable (Chinese) and when I complained to the Dean of the EE Dept his response was “Why do you think we have him teaching a class that only non-EE students take?”</p>

<p>Overall, I found thermo, fluids, HT much less difficult than SofM or anything to do with EE. But everyone’s different.</p>

<p>Anyway, as boneh3ad said, without a more detailed description there’s not much we can say.</p>

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<p>It wont be that bad, those three courses are very interrelated with a lot of overlap if you take them separately. Otherwise you’d spend a day in each class talking about Reynold’s Number, another few days (or weeks) talking about Boundary Layer calculations, etc.</p>

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<p>Also, you ought to specify which OSU you mean. Believe it or not, the Buckeyes aren’t the only OSU with engineering.</p>

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<p>Sounds like a intro class to me. As a chemE, thermo, fluid transport and heat transfer are semester long classes so i can’t imagine that you will cover all the topics in a 10 week course. </p>

<p>Thermo is about converting energy i.e. heat to work in cycles such as pistons, compressors etc… You also learn about describing states, such as entropy, internal energy, gibbs free energy…
Fluid dynamics is about how fluids travel, is it laminar/turbulent, how do we predict the behavior of this gas/liquid under these conditions…
Heat transfer is similar to thermo except it has to do with transferring heat/energy between fluids.</p>

<p>I don’t think its conceptually hard, but depending on the problem the complexity can range from high school algebra to operational calculus.9</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~neelam/abet/05SYLLABI/ME500.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~neelam/abet/05SYLLABI/ME500.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>That course description doesn’t look all that hard. When you say that class “killed alot of people in our major” I think that is attributed to the way you think. Bio in general is much more memorizing and ME 500 is a lot of application so that could be why so many people struggled.</p>