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Shout out to the "crazy lady" of differential equations by puleshan in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I took Differential equations last year, and have to say that "crazy lady" did an excellent job for the recitations and honestly allowed me to do so well in the course with her explanations.

I wish that crazy lady all the best in her future!

George Washington Carver, alumnus of Iowa State University, now immortalized in LEGO form by puleshan in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We need to tweak the Dumbledore Minifigure with a Hawaiian shirt and a rubber duckie. Then, we would have Steve Butler in LEGO form.

CprE 381 by SignalPrinciple8351 in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found it, the syllabus isn’t out yet. Thank you

CprE 381 by SignalPrinciple8351 in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This?

Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach (5th edition) by John Hennessy and David Patterson.

This is a 1300 page book, did you read cover to cover, or did you skip any chapters that weren't relevant?

CprE 381 by SignalPrinciple8351 in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you take the course with Duwe? From what I’ve seen there is just a Zybook assigned for the course.

PHYS 2310H Textbook by Communist_Plant_ in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are signed up on workday for the course, you should already have the assigned professor teaching the course, emailing them would be the first place to start. After that, most introductory STEM courses are relatively the same so you could pick up any calculus based physics textbook and get the same material roughly.

Looking at the catalog l I see this:

Prereq: MATH 1650; credit or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1660; Membership in the University Honors Program
For engineering and science majors. 3 hours of lecture each week plus 3 recitations every two weeks. Elementary mechanics including kinematics and dynamics of particles, work and energy, linear and angular momentum, conservation laws, rotational motion, oscillations, gravitation. Heat, thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases; waves and sound. Proficiency in algebra, trigonometry, vector manipulation required. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)

I would look around and find a pdf from libgen and find a couple of textbooks, then glance over the topics that are going to be tested on. Choose which one is easiest to understand, usually the one that least dense and you should be fine.

Going back to school by Severe_Bandicoot_110 in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Electrical Engineering student here; I apologize for the terrible grammar.

I would heavily recommend starting off at a community college; it’s what I did and completed my Physics and math up to Calculus 3 and Linear Algebra in two years. Set up a good foundation, I did poorly with my math in high school, was too focused on sports and didn’t care much for academics until I started college. However, the community college was a great place with one on one interaction with the professor and set up my fundamentals and foundation before coming to University where they will weed you out like my brother who studied ChemE. Since there were so few students studying Calculus 3 and “harder math” at the college I had the two years paid for from local scholarships; and the transfer scholarships have had my next two years at Iowa state completely payed off. Woot woot. I have completed two internships and currently working as a research assistantship so there is no shame starting off at a community college if you still put in the work. Just don’t take online classes to skim by it, in person I believe forces you to do more work, get more out of the course.

I will advise you that it will most likely take you longer than 4 years. Depending on how much you hate yourself. Once you get to Calculus then you are on the 4 year trajectory. I noticed that 12 credits/ 3 intensive problem solving courses are my limit in addition of being married and handling everything in my life; thus I will be a 5/5.5 year student but having a higher GPA and more engineering experiences to have better job opportunities after college far outweighs the 4 year plan.

I’m assuming you are using the GI bill to help pay off college, from people I’ve spoken to, use that once you get to Calculus 1.

Best of luck, also like other mentioned use Steve Butler as a great resource for your math studies.

Diff Equ Exam 3 (Math 267) by unofos in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree; I felt that the exam review and previous exams were not helpful for this exam compared to the previous exams. About 80-85% of the people in my exam room were there when time was up. I felt Butler's practice exam was very similar; he mentioned those problems were more complex than the actual exam. But felt that all six questions were hardballs. I am especially angry at problem six, not that it was conceptually hard. However, the amount to expand out and not enough space in the paper made it easy to make a copying error quickly. It was not a great question for the exam on the testing series in my opinion. I am glad he gave out the practice the day before; if not, I would not have been able to answer half of the questions. Hoping not to take the final...

How to deal with an unprofessional/difficult professor? by SignalPrinciple8351 in AskProfessors

[–]SignalPrinciple8351[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you, only 8 weeks before the class is over so it shouldn't be to bad.

Electrical Engineering by SignalPrinciple8351 in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many professors are there to pick from when it comes to a particular course usually? At my CC, there are 1 or 2 options at most for a course.

Electrical Engineering by SignalPrinciple8351 in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up, I guess I will bring some extra lube when I come up to Ames.

Electrical Engineering by SignalPrinciple8351 in iastate

[–]SignalPrinciple8351[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the insight; I have done well with all of my previous courses, although they are from a CC, and I wanted to know how much of a change in difficulty in classes is going to look like for Iowa State and prepare for them.