ENGR 1621

Could not stand this class. It was completely unnecessary, harshly graded on the smallest things, and had way too much work for the credits it was worth. It could have been an interesting class if the material was taught in person, and it focused solely on Matlab, had more TA's available during office hours, and not picky on the grading.

If there was ever a completely unnecessary, aggravating course, it's certainly this one. The work load per credit is just as bad as most labs, except the work is completely self taught and pointlessly complicated at times. I understand the course objective is to provide real-world examples for which engineering data analysis tools would be used, but it falls far short of that goal as the work is simply tedious and poorly explained. This class would best be taught as part of the lecture in 1624, yet the engineering staff seems adamant about keeping its awful online format, possibly just for the entertainment of reading comments such as these. The course is required, though, so to first-years reading this review to see what you're in for, all I can say is sorry.

PLEASE DO NOT BE SURPRISED THAT THIS IS A MANDATORY PART OF ENGR 1624 LECTURE CLASS! As incoming first years, it was the first year they integrated ENGR1621 and 1624 so they did not tell us when we registered that there was a 1 credit lab online, ENGR1621. Anyways, this class will make you want to gouge your eyeballs out half of the time as the lessons are overcomplicated and attempt to teach far too complex lessons online. Nevertheless, there are some useful aspects of the class that will need to be applied in other engineering classes in the future, I just wish that it was handled better. TA office hours are kind of useless half of the time because most of them don't even know how to do the harder problems themselves, they just look at the key and tell you when you are wrong. Visiting Prof. Reimers during office hours is the best way to actually learn the material and alleviate stress; however, there are usually many students there. There are hundreds of kids taking this course online, with just one professor, so she will oftentimes seem overwhelmed or unreasonable. Nevertheless, if you go to her office hours, there is a very high likelihood that any problem you have WILL be solved on the spot. TL;DR: this class sucks so much but is useful. The TAs are usually not helpful. Prof. Reimers is your best resource but only holds office hours once a week for 2 hours. THIS CLASS IS MANDATORY FOR FIRST YEAR E-SCHOOL STUDENTS...you will survive!!!

I rated recommendability to be a two for this one just because as an E-school student, this class is mandatory. To be honest, I would enjoy doing these problems a lot more if this class was combined with ENGR 1624's lecture and these topics were taught in lecture, eliminating the need to teach yourself everything.

This class was absolute garbage, and I learned nothing. I realize Reimers was given the class unexpectedly, but the assignments took an obscene amount of time and she was almost inevitably unhelpful and sometimes straight up rude. The TAs would give out answers using the key, and even using those answers it was a 50/50 shot whether you'd get the question right. I realize they've killed this class, but I hated it so much I wanted to review it anyway.

This course blows. Everything is due on Friday afternoon, and it is super difficult with limited resources to help.