CHE 3316

This class is done in all conceptual problems rather than some problems being done numerically, which is Very unfair because of the shock that you see from the homework problems and the projects. the concepts are hard but can be understood if you put in enough time which was more than 10 hours/week for me just to do the average homework problems, readings, and preparation.
again, this class is all conceptual and needs deep thinking and knowledge from thermo 1.

Professor Geise is one of the few professors that I'm going to miss most, he is a great professor and mentor . He tells you exactly what you need to do, but it's up to you if you wanna follow. Don't blame him for your failure. I did really bad in this class. it's a hard course . I just want to thank prof Geise for being awesome prof and I want to apologize for being a bad student. Finally this class is the heart of ChE and I loved it, I just needed more time to understand it. hopefully one I will. <3

Organized and professional. Top tier instructor and researcher. This is coming from a student who sucked on both of his biggest midterms. I am actually doing pretty poorly in the class. But this man is exceptional. He constantly tells you exactly what to do in order to do well, offers guidance and structure to how you should study and get your homework done, and best of all he's always willing to talk to you. Through his advice, I finally broke the 'bad exam curse' my third midterm and did above the average, I also hope I did the same on the final (don't know yet). Ignore all the fucking haters who shit on him, the man's doing his job and he's doing it well. Thermo 2 and unit op.s are stupidly combined into one class (thanks UVA administration), but Geise handles it well. This class will force you to not only get your academic shit together, but also your life together because it will force you to become time-efficient.

Just as other ChE courses, this course is difficult af. Prof Geise is a good professor and you can learn a lot from him -- as long as you can keep yourself awake during the class. The reading is quite helpful (yes we are ONLY using 3 textbooks!) Some of the homework problems are difficult but overall doable in groups. The best part of this class is its exams. Professor Geise writes all the exam problems so you need to understand the material AS WELL AS he does in order to know how to do the problems. However, still, do not even think about completing the exam in the given time. THERE IS NO WAY. STUDENTS CRY AFTER EXAMS.

Plug and chug will not work in this class. On the other hand, if you can wrap your head around the concepts, the tests really aren't that bad. You have to understand what is going on though, and not rely on just recognizing when to plug in equations from your equation sheet.

Overall Geise is a very dedicated and thorough teacher, and better at explaining things than almost any other teacher in the ChemE dept. He cares more about providing quality instruction than most, and it shows. The workload can get pretty intense, but it is a 4 credit class in a difficult major so that's to be expected.

If you focus on really mastering the concepts involved and do well on the projects (read the rubric, btw) you'll be fine.

ChemE is hard so don't expect any classes to be easy. This is a very difficult class, you have a ton of material shoved in your face. Make sure you do well in this class though because it's really indicative of whether or not cheme is a good fit for you. Geise is responsive but really never helps much with test prep at all. He is very difficult.

After taking 2216 with Shirts; a very difficult class if you are not a coder, realize that we, chemEs do not have easy classes. This class is hard at another level. Listen what the Geise says, read Sandler. The other thermo book is also very useful when you find Sandler hard to understand. Wankat, for the separation part is much easier to understand. Ask everything you don't understand right away or you be screwed. The more you try to do things on your own the more benefit you get. Don't give up, good luck, it is not fun.

I never understood why my classmates hated Geise SO much until the Aspen final take home. I was struggling so hard on it because I couldn’t figure it out and hadn’t started studying for the in-class final (which luckily was not bad) and he would not budge at all in giving me any helpful suggestions as to how to proceed. Ergo, Geise is probably the most stubborn professor ever. I can understand from his perspective how he wants us to critically think and not give us the answer, but he expects us to be robots and handle his problem sets, reading the textbooks (3 separate ones), Aspen projects all while navigating life and chemE. If you can listen to his lectures without being bored to death by his voice, he does do a semi-good job of teaching the material. Also, he is very good at emailing you back and upgrading grades/getting tests back quickly. I wish he got rid of the all or nothing test questions.
***I was worried to death about my grade in this class because I was doing average (~C/D) on all the tests and I heard rumors that he didn’t curve. HOWEVER, he did curve/shift grades and I ended up with a B.

Regardless of the professor, this is a difficult and time-consuming course. However, a good professor could make this course interesting and manageable. Geise, however, is not that professor. He would be happy if everyone got a C in his class, and does not give any leeway in grading. Every other engineering course you've taken probably offers partial credit, but for Geise, it's all or nothing. He often assumes that this is our only course and since his course is one extra credit that he can assign 50 things per week. Overall, Geise is a new professor who is trying to prove himself by being tough, but overall fails to make this course possible at all.

this class makes me want to set my face on fire