Excellently put!, The System does work! Our "grades" obviously do not reflect the grades of an Arts student. And the difficulty of our classes with poorer marks do challenge us to do better, and learn more. This does in effect prepare us for the real world. Unfortunately no Arts student would ever understand why the class average for some course, say.. Differential Equations would ever be a C+ and not an A or A+. I as well as my entire engineering faculty, Chemicals, Mechanicals, Electricals, Civils etc we all feel your pain of when our hard-work and effort is being under-valued daily. In Conclusion I would like to say, the system sounds flawed but I do not believe that there is any better model by which we can learn from and develop as professionals for our careers after school.
As a Third Year Computer Engineering Student, I can agree entirely. I have found that my class has been told on numerous occasions to buy the required text book by a professor, so that we would understand the material. The real agenda?, Sell! (Their publications of course). With Courses from Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus, to Differential Equations I have found a number of useless books that teach the theory in one convoluted example and never mention the Theorem or Lemma again. I have also had amazing text books (Supplemented with Wikipedia) which have taught me all about Transistors, CMOS, Diodes, etc (Also it came with PSpice, thats pretty awesome for a 200$ textbook). I get excited when useful software is bundled with my textbooks. On the Issue of Professors, I have found that every last engineering professor is encouraging of their students and want us to do well and understand the material (for their jobs sake?), regardless I feel a sense of constant support from my professors. In first year physics, chemistry, and Philosophy(writing credit), and 2nd year Technical Communications i have found that the professors only favor certain individuals and could care less how the rest of the class did. This was only a brief dive into the rant/article but being at work I need to get some work done. But I would like to say that all Engineering Students should realize that's what they should expect when entering such a Faculty. It is not a breeze to fly through, and it can be achievable as long as you do not take on the mannerisms of a first-year arts student that party's all day and night regardless of the classes they have the next day. Just My Thoughts! XD
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Excellently put!, The System does work! Our "grades" obviously do not reflect the grades of an Arts student. And the difficulty of our classes with poorer marks do challenge us to do better, and learn more. This does in effect prepare us for the real world. Unfortunately no Arts student would ever understand why the class average for some course, say.. Differential Equations would ever be a C+ and not an A or A+. I as well as my entire engineering faculty, Chemicals, Mechanicals, Electricals, Civils etc we all feel your pain of when our hard-work and effort is being under-valued daily. In Conclusion I would like to say, the system sounds flawed but I do not believe that there is any better model by which we can learn from and develop as professionals for our careers after school.
As a Third Year Computer Engineering Student, I can agree entirely. I have found that my class has been told on numerous occasions to buy the required text book by a professor, so that we would understand the material. The real agenda?, Sell! (Their publications of course). With Courses from Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus, to Differential Equations I have found a number of useless books that teach the theory in one convoluted example and never mention the Theorem or Lemma again. I have also had amazing text books (Supplemented with Wikipedia) which have taught me all about Transistors, CMOS, Diodes, etc (Also it came with PSpice, thats pretty awesome for a 200$ textbook). I get excited when useful software is bundled with my textbooks. On the Issue of Professors, I have found that every last engineering professor is encouraging of their students and want us to do well and understand the material (for their jobs sake?), regardless I feel a sense of constant support from my professors. In first year physics, chemistry, and Philosophy(writing credit), and 2nd year Technical Communications i have found that the professors only favor certain individuals and could care less how the rest of the class did. This was only a brief dive into the rant/article but being at work I need to get some work done. But I would like to say that all Engineering Students should realize that's what they should expect when entering such a Faculty. It is not a breeze to fly through, and it can be achievable as long as you do not take on the mannerisms of a first-year arts student that party's all day and night regardless of the classes they have the next day. Just My Thoughts! XD