ENGR 1620

I love prof. Bailey. The class is definitely one of the hardest ENGR 1620 sections. It requires you to do REAL work compare to some of the other intro to engr sections. A lot of hands-on projects. It's fun to work with your group and you become great friends. Group work can keep going for 6 hours though due to the amount of work you have to do. Overall I loved this class although I worked really hard for the A- whereas many of my ENGR friends received A's for doing nothing. And the TA's are wonderful.

Bailey is a fun guy, and this is a super easy class to begin with. You learn a lot about the engineering design process. Lots of meeting with your group - hopefully they're fun.

Great Teacher, very fun guy. Be ready to work your butt off on the final project for the last couple weeks or so, but besides that he's pretty easy

If you are looking for an easy A, or a normal ENGR class, then this isn't the choice for you. This is as hard as it gets for ENGR 1620, but seems to be worth it in the end.

Love Prof Bailey. He is engaging and passionate about the subject of design and engineering. However this class is A LOT of work and the more you put into it, the more you will get out of it. If you want lots of creative projects and hands-on activities this is definitely the section to take. But get ready for a lot of work too.

This section of ENGR is by far the hardest. That being said, it is also the most enriching and real experience of engineering. Bailey will push you to look at the progress and elements of a project in a constructive way.

Professor Bailey's section of ENGR 1620 has far more work than any other section. If you just want an easy and non-work intensive class do not take his section.

However, Bailey does teach you some very important topics about Engineering. Like all sections you learn about sensors and prototyping, but in Bailey's section you really learn what it means to be an engineer. At the end of the year you take your projects to an elementary school that services underprivileged students, 85% of the students are on free or reduced lunch. While the students are testing your products Bailey talks to them all about becoming Engineers. I learned a lot about myself through this class. I at first thought I wanted to be an engineer for the money and job security. But, I realize now that what I really like about it is the oppurtunity you have in this profession to really help people and ake a difference in their lives.

Take Bailey's class if you can handle a heavy work load (the last 2 weeks of the class are comprised of you working on your projects for ~6 hours 3 times a week; and the final test of your projects happens on a reading day), can work well in a team, and are interested about learning what it is to be an engineer.

Although this class is very work intensive, its not particularly hard. There are no quizzes or tests and if you don't want to do the reading you don't have to at all. While building and designing your product is pretty fun and interesting; about a third of the time you are in this class you will be lectured in a class room. I didn't find Bailey's lectures to be all that enjoyable. They were pretty monotonous and taught information that I learned better later in the class while we were working on our projects.

This section contains by far the most work of any ENGR section. There is the theory that you learn a lot but most of the work you end up doing is rather tedious and similar to a shop class in high school. The work is also concentrated at the end of the semester which is generally not beneficial for your gpa or general state of being during finals.

Bailey will tell you straight up on the first day of class that his section of 1620 will be more work than the other sections, but if you put your heart into the large project that is like 75% of your grade, you will have fun and do just fine. That is completely true. Our project was to create a scholastic obstacle course as a class for the 1st and 4th graders of Clark Elementary school. The class was split into groups and each group came up with their own part of the course, involving sensors and an actual obstacle area that could have been built out of materials such as pvc or wood. I will say just make sure you have good chemistry with your group and put work into the class. If you are someone that would be fine with it, then you would probably have fun.

Prof. Bailey is very enthusiastic and is willing to put in time for this class. It's obvious from previous reviews that Bailey's class does involve the most work. To alleviate this, make sure to go to office hours to get ideas reviewed by him. The most stressful part of the class was having to change your project idea several times close to the deadline.