Collegiate Engineering and seemingly lack of instruction/ misguided learning.

I am in school for chemical engineering, where most of my classes, for years, have failed to teach the base equations for said classes. They focus on, in general, very obvious theory, to the point of it being irrelevant.

Ie. heat transfer, and my first 3 lectures were discussions of how heat moves from hot to cold... duh. No mathematics. No examples.

They do not return assignments back prior to the examinations, over the material the assignments cover for said exam. So we never know if we’re doing anything correctly going into the exam.

We resort to using Chegg. Not to cheat, but for verification that we are teaching ourselves correctly. Simply to make sure that we are understanding it because we are receiving no feed back. In response, they begin writing their own homework problems and not providing solutions. Under the veil of “your engineers, you need to learn to problem solve”.

They do not answer questions, or respond whatsoever, to anything directly related to problem sets via email.

They add questions over materials not found in chapters the exams is suppose to cover, and claim it was a topic of one of the lectures. This happened DURING our last exam actually. The professor stands up and announces that number 4 pertained to convective heat coefficient. We were in a conductive chapter, with only conductive problems assigned. There was no convection anywhere.

Easy fix, we simply quit going to class, and notice our grades greatly improving gaining around 12 hours a week of free time by removing a useless lecture. Which in most cases we see a personal grade improvement, shortly after however the professor begins making attendance required for a grade. And lectures on how it’s important for us to come to lecture.

When this is complained about to various professors, they hide behind this veil of “you need to figure it out on your own, your an engineer”. If this is the case, why do I need you? Why is my attendance required? I have already proven multiple times I do better without you, as well as my classmates.

Is this a pretty standard norm in engineering colleges? How is it acceptable?

Submitted January 27, 2020 at 03:32PM by closetnerd5 https://ift.tt/2O5O0ga