This is an entirely self-taught course with a lab due every Friday at 11:59 pm until the end of the semester. I have never used Matlab in my life and this course did not explain that very well. The office hours are always at night (6:30 - 8:30pm) except on Friday's when they are from 2-4pm. I legit would go to office hours Monday - Wednesday from 6:30pm-8:30pm just to finish the lab before Friday and sometimes would even have to go Thursday and Friday too. Doing the multiple-choice part of the quizzes is pretty simple since you can read the pdfs they give you or just retake it, however the excel and Matlab parts were almost impossible for me to figure out without help from a TA. This course actually showed me that I'm not 100% sure I want to do engineering and I've been considering other majors because using Matlab and excel sucks.

The ENGR 1624 lab with Ann was the worst class I've ever taken. Ann seems like a nice person, but the workload was time-consuming and useless. Sure, learning how to use Excel and MatLab was useful, but all of it could've been condensed SIGNIFICANTLY. I spent way too much time each week on her assignments, and if there was anyway I could take ENGR 1624 without the lab portion, I would sell my soul to do so.

#tCFfall2021

[For the lab portion, on MatLab and Excel] This class is the annoyance of an engineering first year's opening semester. The work is largely busy work, which piles up every week, forcing a couple inevitable stay-up-late Thursdays throughout the semester. Worst part is--the course being largely Excel and Matlab concepts--at the end of an arduous semester, you don't feel like you accomplished anything worth more than watching a 20 minute tutorial on YouTube. I have no experience with Ann Reimers, other than the exercises she prepared for the lab.

This class is about 6 hours a week of doing really dry excel or MatLab work. Not fun but I can see why they would have us do it.