![]() The exams are all multiple choice with no partial credit, so you could be doing it completely right but mess up at the end and get it wrong because you get the great option of none of the above, to which you must fight with yourself on deciding if you are wrong, going back and fixing the answer, or if the answer is truly none of the above. 40% of the exams questions I would say are based around knowing how to use the vector quantities, 40% is knowing the concepts and definitions (not as easy as it sounds), and 20% are give me questions, which you can still get wrong and I will explain why now. I understand that fluids should be taught initially in 3D coordinates, but the homework problems he gives you as practice (which I am certain are just the books solutions) are all done using equations that are reduced versions of the main equation so you never really get any practice using the main equations written in terms of vector quantities. Vector quantities is all he uses, and if you dont know what I mean, you will find out quickly. There was a tiny curve for my class, had a 79 outright but got a B in the class. The book is needed for the controller section of the class as the homework is taken from it (you might be able to find a pdf of it). He also gave us a take home problem to do before the final which kind of sucked because it took away studying time. His final was pretty tough but was moderately fair, hopefully he does what he did with my class and only cover the controller section in his final. The third exam I thought was tougher than past exams but you will get past exams to practice again so just do those and the homework problems. As a professor overall, he likes to relate things to real world applications, and sometimes can be a little all over the place but its not too distracting, it really helped having a TA that was good at summarizing the past weeks lectures. ![]() My only concern I had with him during this section is we really focus on nyquist plots which are only useful for weird systems and in reality you could just analyze bode plots. This part of the course is mostly equations and understanding plots which can be tough in its own right. The final topics you will do is controllers, which he tends to focus a good bit on design and theory behind a controller. The next section of the course is fluid systems, and if you had Detrick for systems this part will be a breeze, if not then I am not sure how you will fare, my advice is to model the system as a circuit and think of it that way, the exam is similar to the first in that just do the practice exams and dont miss little things. Expect the first exam to be similar to his practice ones and watch out for little things as thats what I missed most of my points on and he will hammer you on it. The first major topic you discuss is magnetic circuits, DC, and AC motors, I felt this section of the class wasnt too hard, the homework were sometimes a drag but the information you get about DC motors is pretty important. ME 3360 - Srinivasan (Cheena) - The course is split into two sections, system integration which focuses on actuators mostly, and the second section is controllers. Now that final grades are in and I can give a definite answer on curves and what the final is like, I thought I should do an update and redo my thoughts about the class and professor. ![]() It covers your spring sophomore year to now which is junior spring year on the bingo sheet.
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