Keith Quistorff wrote:
Good to hear State has come around and have actual professors teaching Statics nowadays. Back in my day, I consistently had Middle Eastern grad students teaching my 200 level ME classes - it was hard enough to understand what they were saying, let alone the fact that they were completely green at teaching. I recall quite a few instances where they'd stumble through their lectures, making mistakes early in example problems and having to start over doing it the "right" way, which often ended up not being right either. I absolutely hated those classes, definitely a frustrating introduction to engineering.
Keith,
I guess this was a bit after my time at State? I took statics in the fall of 1978 I think, and I had Dr. Garcia. He was great -- very articulate, funny and made it interesting to come to class. I had Hebrank that Spring for dynamics too. In fact, I can't recall any ME class I had in undergrad years being taught by a TA except the two ME labs. I did take Automotive Eng course, 400 level, in my senior year with Dr. Afify, and trying to understand him at times was tough.
Speaking of Dookies...in grad school at State in MAE, we had one student who went to undergrad at Duke for his BSME degree. I can still recall the professor I worked for (Dr. Boles) pulling his hair out over the simplistic questions this guy asked in Advanced Eng Thermo (MAE 501) class.
The Duke boy lasted only 2 semesters before dropping out of grad school. Of course (!) this has no bearing on Brice, James or Ash (William Gravely, Jackie's boyfriend).
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