MAE 2100

Professor Chelliah is super nice and helpful (and he even let us tour his lab). His lectures were straightforward and made sense. He also did many examples, which helped us understand the material. The homework was doable. For the exams, the multiple choice were difficult, but the free response were straight-forward. Unfortunately, he's retiring after the Fall 2022 semester.

If you want to succeed in this class, I would recommend going to office hours. Professor Chelliah is super helpful and answered all my questions. I would recommend going to office hours early on in the semester, since the first part of the course is the most confusing. I thought the liquid-vapor mixtures were the most confusing part of the class.

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This class is really hard but Chelliah makes it impossible. The homework is okay to slog through but lectures make no sense. I read the 1st chapter before the 1st lecture and Chelliah literally taught the lesson backward and it made no sense. We asked him to put his notes on Collab and he said yes and then continued to write on the board which was illegible, and I sat in the 2nd row. Chelliah said every test was the easiest he had ever made and they were horrible. I got a 33 on the 1st midterm and a 95 on the 2nd somehow. Most people averaged in the 60s. Before the 2nd midterm, he asked if people felt prepared and literally no one in the 100+ person class raised their hands. I literally left in the middle of the final to cry that's how horrible it was. The tests are also open book/notes but it doesn't really help. He didn't post final grades because I am 100% sure the majority of the class failed (both the final and the class) and he had to add a HUGE curve. He also somehow didn't know how to use a lighter or a bunsen burner and almost set the desk in MEC 205 on fire. He also tried to have us teach ourselves how to use Matlab for extra credit and no one did it when he asked us about it a kid said that it was because he didn't teach us how to use matlab.

So, Thermodynamics across the board is a tough class -- shocker. That being said, Thermodynamics with Chelliah is nearly impossible. His lectures are extremely difficult to follow. As a class, we voted early in the semester that we'd rather have lectures done via PPT, and he agreed; the very next class, he wrote his lecture notes on the chalkboard, completely disregarding our vote. His handwriting is illegible, and the only decent notes in the class are the notes from 2008 he uploaded on Collab, when he last taught the class. The homework is tough, but if you go to office hours, it's doable. The exams, um, yeah. Those happened. (Tangent: he claimed our first exam was the "easiest exam [he'd] ever written". It wasn't; the average was like a 60.) The final was literally impossible. Imagine studying for a calculus exam, and then, unexpectedly, taking a Chinese exam (and you don't speak Chinese). That was the final. Overall, this class sucks, and I'm not sure I actually learned anything. Sorry you have to take this. I've been there, bud.

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