I need to take my engineering science elective this summer and was wondering if anyone can recommend one of these over the other in terms of good professors and not having a ridiculous amount of work.

CE 215 - Dynamics
CE 313 - Solids
MAE 208 - Dynamics
MAE 301 - Thermo I
MAE 308 - Fluid Mechanics

Thanks

3/19/2009 10:35:13 AM

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"not having a ridiculous amount of work"

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" CE 215 - Dynamics CE 313 - Solids MAE 208 - Dynamics MAE 301 - Thermo I MAE 308 - Fluid Mechanics "

Does not follow.

However, if you are just looking to pass the class, I would say take Thermo I, as long as Boles is not teaching it. He is the best teacher, but he will make you work for it.
Dynamics will have a lot of work, since it's a pretty big weed-out class for MAE/CE, and I hear CE solids is tough.
Otherwise, Fluids is interesting, just a lot of equations and problems to solve.

3/19/2009 1:38:59 PM

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"engineering"

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"not having a ridiculous amount of work."

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3/19/2009 3:18:48 PM

I took MAE 301 over the summer with Boles and it was pretty easy. I made an A in the class without putting in a lot of effort.

3/19/2009 4:33:09 PM

thermo is your easiest option, followed by dynamics.

3/19/2009 4:47:11 PM

i can't speak for the CE classes, but i've taken the three MAE classes and thermo is your best bet

it's also the most practical of the three. teaches some stuff that a non-ME might actually find useful in life like efficiency and coefficient of performance. i just found the thermo topics interesting in general. you learn a lot of cool stuff about energy and how it's used/transferred, which is neat to know when everyone's beginning to focus on energy efficiency.

dynamics isn't too hard, but, as someone already said, it's a weed-out class and there was tons of homework. also, you might end up with silverberg and 1/3 of what you do for his tests is memorize useless (for a non-ME) derivations.

fluids was one of my least favorite classes so far. it's just memorizing a bunch of complicated formulas. pretty much useless after school.

also, don't rule out thermo just because boles is teaching it. he's a great teacher who actually teaches. he actually gives a relatively low amount of homework. if you go to class, do the homework, study what he says to study, and have some common sense, you'll pass.

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 7:12 PM. Reason : boles]

3/19/2009 7:08:13 PM

Since your major is Industrial Engineering, you might be able to apply something from solids or dynamics but like others said, they are both weedout courses (at least they were in MAE) so if you are just looking to get through the class, go with MAE 301. I didn't have Boles, I had Lyons and aside from a kind of monotone voice, he was a pretty good instructor. He didn't throw curveballs and crap like most MAE professors did. I got an A without too much effort.

3/20/2009 9:23:32 AM

^^ True, Lyons is easy if you do the work and don't hesitate to get to know him. I got to know him to where he would recognize me in the hallwaysand I know he boosted my final grade probably 5 pts. Also mentioned, you'll probably learn the most thermo from Boles. I have him now for thermo 2 and I'm doing well.

On that note, fluids was really interesting to me. But your fluids experience may vary dramatically. I had Ward, and I feel like we were just getting into the interesting stuff as the semester ended. I'd like to have continued fluids learning about pipes and pumps and turbines and stuff (although some is covered in thermo as well).

Bottom line: thermo is the easiest

Oh and if you for some reason decide to take dynamics, I hear the civil version is easier than the mechanical. As stated above, the opposite is true for solids. I wouldn't take either if I were you.

[Edited on March 20, 2009 at 10:17 AM. Reason : dynamics]

3/20/2009 10:16:28 AM

Thanks for all the feedback, I think I'm gonna go ahead and take Thermo I.

3/20/2009 12:57:27 PM

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"dynamics isn't too hard, but, as someone already said, it's a weed-out class and there was tons of homework. also, you might end up with silverberg and 1/3 of what you do for his tests is memorize useless (for a non-ME) derivations."

Or take thermo with Klienstruer(sp?) (although I dunno if he still teaches that class) where 1/3 of what you do for his tests is memorize useless derivations. Seriously, derive gibbs free energy... derive the formula for adiabats?

I think dynamics was the easiest (even though I had silverberg, I mean all the derivations are spelled out word for word, line for line in his book you have to buy) and they all have equal amounts of work from my experience.

3/20/2009 4:25:34 PM

take 301 with boles in the summer, its a cakewalk

3/20/2009 9:34:44 PM

208, 301, and 308 are all pretty easy. close your eyes and pick.

3/24/2009 2:27:49 PM

CE 215 and get the solutions manual

3/24/2009 3:28:13 PM

Just take Thermo 1 w/ Lyons...He's really boring but as long as you do the HW's and talk to the guy, it'll be easy

3/25/2009 12:28:36 PM