Gold
Silver[EAEE E2002] Alternative Energy Resources
Departments: Earth and Environmental Engineering
Professors: (multiple lecturers), Peter Bower, Klaus Lackner, and David Walker
Hilarious class. This guy is a hilarious man. Really friendly and good-hearted. You will learn a lot by talking to him BUT this is not a real class. Seriously its not real at all. The prob sets are like HS chemistry and you read HS books. I knew pretty much everything he taught in the class and Im a poli sci major. Its just there to ease up your schedule and for an easy A. Honestly everyone who had half a brain in that class got an A and had fun doing it. The final he let us use a cheat sheet. It could not have been easier and more fun.
He doesnt even lecture really. once in a while he will just start being serious but its rare. He usually talks about his careers as MAYOR haha of Teaneck NJ or his son in the military...
HE IS A REAL AMERICAN HERO.
I like Dave Chappelle..."Jokes and Jokes and JOKES!!!"
If you want another joke take this class.
Prob sets that we did the night before or 10 minutes before class. Bowers class is like christmas...saved my GPA last semester
What an annoying class. Seriously.
I had to take this class for my EEE requirement, but it shouldn't be mandatory. I can't imagine anyone who would take this class for fun. The material is interesting and relevant but the lecturers are not very enthusiastic and there's really no reason to go to class. I found the material in the book (which you do not need for the course) more interesting.
There is no reason to go to this class, or take it at all unless you are REALLY interested in alternative energy and willing to listen to dry presentations.
The midterm and final are stupid. They give you around 5 problems that are completely ambiguous- the ones you think are easy end up being hard, and the ones you thought were hard were able to be solved easily.
Professor Walker is generally very unhelpful and I also found him to be rude. A big NO THANKS to ever taking one of his classes ever again.
Generally a very frustrating class. There are SIPA people who also take the class as well (I guess its both a 2000 level class and a 4000 level class)... which is all fine and dandy unless you end up with the one who was in my class who couldn't really shut up. I would advise against taking it, and if you have to take it for EEE... well then good luck to you... it's gonna be one unpredictable semester.
There is homework- which is ungraded and will not help you with the midterm or the final.
Midterm and Final- a bunch of bs, literally. You don't need to go to class, you just need to be really resourceful with wikipedia and hope you are guessing right.
This class is very unstructured. I took it as my non-departmental engineering class. It didn't feel engineering at all. It was full of rounded numbers and even included a day when we learned PV=nRT! This is because the class is half SIPA students who are learning about this for policy making reasons. While they tout it as trying to encourage cooperation between scientists and policy makers, it does not seem like they should be in the same class. The backgrounds are so different it is hard for a SEAS kid to not be bored in the science part, and lost in the policy part. The professors are well intentioned and approachable, but they don't do a very good job of teaching the material nonetheless. It seems disorganized and the homework assignments, tests, and projects are atrociously not guided.
5 HW, a midterm, a powerpoint presentation project, and an optional final. Pretty light and an easy B or better for a SEAS kid, but I don't know if that makes it worth the frustration.
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