MMAN3000 - Professional Engineering / Communication
Ease: both a 0/10 and 10/10
was a piss easy course didn't have to do much work but it was literally known as the worst course, very pointless didn't learn anything from this course at all
Content: 0/10
there was literally nothing to learn (being very serious here)
Lecturer:
Mark Whitty - 8/10 was pretty cool, explained the technical side to thesis, studies etc
Cory Martin - 0/10 I will refrain from making negative comments out of fear of what has happened to previous BoSers
Other guest lectures 0/10 - Again will refrain from making negative comments
Tutor: 0/10
Didn't know her name, she was arab. Literally did not learn anything in this course (being quite serious again)
Overall: 0/10
Apparently the previous year had a worser course, so they "improved it" this year but they fucked it up even more lmao
MTRN3020 - Modelling and Control of Mechatronic Systems
Ease: 6.5/10
3 labs worth 50%. you can get 90% in each lab very very easily if you do the simulink/matlab part properly by following the labs. final exam was something else all together. was just questions from the textbook which can be found online easily. also join the fb group for solutions
Content: 2/10
was very dry and boring. nothing interesting. just "design this controler" make sure u take these into account very tedious
Lecturer: DrJ 2/10
presented the dry content very dry also very difficult to hear so sit in the front during lectures as they arent recorded properly
Tutor: 1/10
some asian girl idk what she was saying half the time. she spoke in asian to some asian students made it very difficult to understand what was going on. She didn;t explain things very well and her accent was very strong. imo labs were pointless not worth waking up 9am monday morning for, just do them in your own time
Overall: 3/10
shit subject and shit course wouldn't recommend but easily prof elective if ur a mechanical engineer (core for mechatronic engineers)
MTRN2500 - COMP for MTRN Engineers (C++)
Ease: 5/10
3 assignments 1 exam. assigs are very shit, just same generic programming, most people get 70+% in them if you can do it sort of right
Content: 6/10
it's learning OOP and C++ in a IDE environment so it's unfamiliar also quite scary at first. but u get used to it and it isnt so bad
Lecturer: 2/10 DrJ
sildes contain half done code and just programs during the lecture very useless to go to tbh.
Tutors: 0/10
the labs were unoffical as in u didnt have to go to them they didn't really help unles you had specific questions about ur code
Overall: first mtrn course most people do and it is generally shit imo.
MMAN2300 - Engineering Mechanics 2
Ease: 1/10
very hard course imo, 2 parts to this course, vibrarions which is okay-ish but part B is just pure calcs and if you mess up one step you get the entire question wrong. Solutions to questions also span 6+ pages literally
Content: 5/10 imo
imo was interesting to see the effects that small things had on systems like damping ratio and increasing speed a little bit and seeing the result but the calculations were very hard, tbh I didn't get most of the calcs right even if i was on the right track
Lecturer: Niclole kessisiigihsiusosusiosus 2/10, Zhongxaio peng 3/10
nicole just read of lecture slides wasn't really helpful tbh.
peng was alright but went through the examples really quickly
Tutor: Eggler 7/10, indian guy 1/10
eggler was pretty good tutor, I am a slow student and I could keep up with him. explained every step really well
indian guy, I think he was an alright tutor but was very shy and quiet and could barely hear him
Overall: 4/10
didn't like it because I think it was beyond the scope of my capabilities but was an alright course and u can do well if you really know how to apply concepts really well to problems but exams are a new ballgame alltogther because there are some very retarted questions for example in the final exam it was like "find the velocity of the of this point on the aircraft wing given zeta = 0.8 and N rpm" something like that
