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EGM 2511

Engineering Mechanics: Statics

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1Awful Prof

Prof: Dickrell / Spring 2025

May 7, 2025

Comments on the course

Easy class made unnecessarily difficult by prof. 1 hw assignment a week, 1 quiz a week, and a midterm worth 10% of your grade and a final worth a whole 40%. This class was more difficult to keep an A in than phy2049 purely because of how stupidly the exams are structured and the grades are calculated. The midterm and most quizzes have an average in the 60s. And, whoops! Half of your final exam grade (a whopping 20% of the grade total) is a topic you barely cover in class and you have to scour the internet to find practice problems for.

Course Content

Starts with a review of basic physics 1 topics and moves on to 2d rigid body equilibrium, trusses and frames, internal forces, friction, moments of inertia and centroids, and 3d rigid body equilibrium. Pretty interesting and very useful to anyone doing structural stuff or in M.O.M.

Comments on the professor

Dickrell is an incredibly unprofessional and impolite person. He is actually a pretty solid lecturer but makes this class a nightmare. Frequently makes errors on quizzes, degrades students in announcements telling them they'll be made obselete, responds to emails in one word answers, and took over a week to grade the final (by the way, you can't see your score, just your final grade on oneuf). Awful.

Advice

First, don't take with dickrell. If you do have that misfortune, take this class seriously. The content is simple which might lull you into a false sense of security, but this draconian loser will squeeze every last drop of difficulty out of it. Don't lose points on quizzes; they pile up fast. For the final, do a lot of practice problems.

Delivery: OnlineGrade: AWorkload: ModerateTextbook Use: Yes
Quiz HeavyAssignment HeavyExam Heavy
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4Good Class
3Avg. Difficulty
4Interesting
5Very Useful

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5Amazing Prof

Prof: Jenkins / Spring 2024

Apr 28, 2024

Comments on the course

Objectively easier than physics 2 and I enjoyed the content a lot more. Definitely requires time outside of class to understand the material, but Jenkins gives you ample textbook problems to practice the concepts. Exams were very fair. Not easy but makes sense for engineering.

Comments on the professor

I loved Jenkins, although I think he's retiring soon. Very fair with exam content and wants his students to do well.

Advice

Start the textbook problems early so you're not cramming before the exam. They will also help with the homework problems.

Delivery: In personGrade: BWorkload: ModerateTextbook Use: Yes
Assignment HeavyExam Heavy
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4Good Class
4Easy
5Very Interesting
5Very Useful

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5Amazing Prof

Prof: Dickrell / Summer 2022

Aug 11, 2022

Comments on the course

Foundational course for many fields of engineering. If vector calculus and basic physics are well understood, this class is a natural progression on the topics

Delivery: OnlineGrade: ATextbook Use: Optional
Exam Heavy
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4Good Class
4Easy
3Kinda Interesting
3Kinda Useful

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4Good Prof

Prof: Jenkins / Spring 2020

Apr 18, 2022

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HW every class. Exams were fair though

Delivery: In personGrade: AWorkload: HeavyTextbook Use: Yes
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5Amazing Class
3Avg. Difficulty
4Interesting
5Very Useful

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5Amazing Prof

Prof: Dickrell / Fall 2021

Feb 13, 2022

Comments on the course

Honestly this class was interesting. Sit down and truly understand what the concepts are cause purely memorizing it won’t help. Practice questions are the way to go

Comments on the professor

Dickrell was an amazing lecturer and very helpful whether in class or office hours

Advice

Don’t push off studying till the last minute

Delivery: HybridGrade: AWorkload: ModerateTextbook Use: Yes
Quiz HeavyExam Heavy
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3OK Class
3Avg. Difficulty
5Very Interesting
5Very Useful

Prof: Schueller / Spring 2020

Nov 2, 2021

Comments on the course

hard but useful and generally not ridiculous for engineering

Course Content

very useful for future classes

Comments on the professor

poor lecturer

Advice

welcome to engineering

Delivery: OnlineGrade: B

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