MAE 2300

Baoxing Xu is an amazing professor, he is super helpful and does a great job teaching the material. He is generous with partial credit on homework and exams, and it is truly difficult to do poorly in this class. He gives a reasonable amount of homework each week, and the homeworks are super useful when reviewing for exams. It is clear that Xu wants everyone to do well in the class, as his exams and homeworks are very fair.

If you're taking statics, I'd definitely take it with Baoxing Xu. I was scared for this class but it's totally manageable if you start the weekly homework early and go to office hours. I really appreciated Professor Xu's willingness to meet with me if I had missed class and wanted to go over some of the practice problems from the slides. The midterms aren't too bad, focus on making your equation sheet and maybe include practice problems on it if you have the space. Honestly, I really liked Xu's lectures because you can tell he loves to teach. He's an engaging professor, and I took this at 9am 3 days a week so that's saying something lol. Overall not like a life-changing class but solid, and I like Professor Xu a lot.

Professor Xu is very approachable and doesn't have any set office hours: you can come into his office and ask him questions at any time. His lectures are clear and easy to understand. He does many example problems, which help with the homework and exams.

The hardest part of this class was the homework. Each week, we did 6-8 problems. In the first month, these problems were very easy. However, after the first month, the homework questions quickly became very difficult. I had to meet up with my friends after class to discuss the problems if I wanted to finish the homework on time.

The exam problems were easier than the homework problems. Furthermore, there is a built in curve: the maximum grade you can get on exams is a 110/100. (You'll notice there are many more A+'s in this class than in other classes). However, the exams were closed-notes, so you did need to study.
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The professor was nice, but looking back at the lectures, the only reason I would go to class would be for the pop quizzes. Otherwise, the content is pretty straightforward, and if people study adequately, they should expect an A.

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Disclaimer: I took this the Fall 2020 semester when all courses were online.

Prof. Xu is a very nice professor although his accent is thick. The course itself is mixed. Lectures skew towards useless esp. if you take the early morning class slot. Homework can be hard but isn't awful if you don't push it off.

Xu and his TAs are generous with partial credit. Tests were similar to problem sets in structure and difficulty.

This class is fairly dull because it starts at the ground level and builds all the way up. If you have a good understanding of Newton's laws you will do perfectly fine. The lectures for me were early and hard to justify waking up to besides the pop quizzes. Baoxing isn't a great explainer and can be confusing but reading the slides and working examples covers everything you need to know.

Xu class just really boring. He is a nice man and tries to teach well but it doesn't always work. I read an took notes from the textbook in class and that helped a lot. People hate of Xu because he's the first MAE professor/class you have but he is just pretty average. There are far far worse in MAE and far better. The final wrecks you though, just be prepared.

Only way to to avoid Xu and his unhelpful lectures is to take Statics over the summer. We were allowed self-made cheat sheets on all exams which was a nice bonus, although when the final came around they really didn't help anyone (final was much harder than the midterms). The material in this class serves you better when it's self-taught - if you have the drive to teach yourself and keep up take the class; if not, take it over the summer.

Well going to the class is pretty pointless and Xu is incredibly hard to understand and he is an awful lecturer but you probably have to take this class anyway. The midterms were pretty easy since they were open book and open note, but the final he took that away and it was insanely hard so everyone failed and he didn't curve it.

I highly recommend this course if one has to take MAE 2310. Take this course first because otherwise you will not succeed because everything is built on MAE 2300.