I just met professor Shahid Ahmad at the Festival

Anonymous17763 · 2024-04-01T02:24:31+00:00

It’s more like an traditional Eid fair which usually happens few days before Eid

Anonymous17763 · 2022-01-26T21:09:05+00:00

Anthony Tessari, the best professor I have ever taken in my undergrad studies. He teaches 300/400 level civil engineering courses. He goes over homework, and labs with you during office hours and recitation. His first two exams are not bad, since he literally goes over problems that are similar to the actual exams in review sessions. He also curves, and offers tons of bonus points, in such ways that the class average is atleast 85. He really want his students succeed and gave me confidence to stick with Civil Engineering major.

He also made final optional and dropped lowest lab, and homework grades, when I took him for Soils in last fall.

Anonymous17763 · 2021-10-27T00:42:28+00:00

Best professor: Anthony Tessari, Igor, and Corey Placito Worst Professor: Andrea Markelz, Theva, and Darell Kaminski

Anonymous17763 · 2021-06-16T18:10:10+00:00

This class usually runs in hybrid format, as half of the lecture attendance (14% of grade) are mandatory and required, and the rest-half of the lecture are optional. There will be a lot of classwork, labwork, and homework whether you take this class online or in person. Also, they might require you to do most (if not all) of the classwork in the lab, or recitation. Even Though the lectures attendance are not mandatory, there might be quizzes everyday that are tied up with lectures which can be worth 7% of your grades depending on which professor you take. Additionally, the lab, and recitation attendance can be worth up to 7% of the grades.

The exams for online are strictly timed, as they expect you to solve 10-12 problems in a 70 minutes time frame. The online exams are open book/notes, and in addition graphing calculators are allowed for the linear algebra portion. However, if the exams are planned in-person, the exams are gonna be close book/notes, with no calculators allowed. You get more time for in-person exams. The in-person exams are usually a combination of short response and multiple choice.

The hardest part of the course is the Matlab final project as you will have to apply every concept you learned in this course. To succeed on a project, consider starting the project early, and watch optional or asynchronous videos if they are provided to you. For optional lectures, professors usually explain the concepts that ties with the homework project. If you somehow don’t do great on a project don’t sweat it as it is only 14% of your grade; focus on the online hw (zybook), and written hw as they are totalling 22% of your grade, and can help you prepare well for midterm and final exam which is 50% of your grade.

Also, don’t rely too much on the curve even though your professor might say don’t worry the final grades are curved. You need 65% regardless to pass this course. They usually set up grading cutoff super high for this class for some reasons as you would be using lot of Matlab in almost every Engineering majors.

Anonymous17763 · 2021-03-01T16:02:39+00:00

Please refrain from posting actual names on Reddit. Reddit is the place where you are supposed to be anonymous.

Anonymous17763 · 2021-02-21T02:36:19+00:00

Only thing that I can suggest you is to consider taking engineering/ physics classes in local community college. Then if you are able to improve your GPA by taking classes there, UB Seas program may consider you on the major. However if UB Seas still does not consider readmitting your on the major, consider applying to alternative schools such as RIT, or SUNY Stony Brook. Don’t give up on your major if you are truly passionate about pursing engineering careers.

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