What should be an interesting class harmed by weird structure. For this online class, Rubiano makes you watch weird, over-condensed YouTube videos he's created instead of actual lectures. 100% of your grade is exams and it's very easy to slip up and fail due to the lack of HW cushion. Really weird process where you solve example youtube videos and then do homework in an excel spreadsheet. Really high workload and super annoying. By the end of the course if you hear specific enthalpy or isentropic one more time, your brain will leak out of your ears.

Introduction to thermodynamics from an engineering perspective. Work, heat, internal energy, enthalpy, and entropy in open and closed systems. Engineering devices and heat engines are discussed. Majority of the course focuses on determining how energy flows around in various systems. I love the content and would enjoy taking it with a competent professor.

Rubiano was maybe the worst professor I have ever had. Truly, truly lazy and unprofessional. Refused to actually lecture or communicate to students, had insane expectations for work (i.e. expecting meticulously formatted excel files for every homework problem that you will be asked to open during exams and modify with almost no time allotted, so any alternative solution methods you use for homework will give 0 points), and makes your life as hard as possible. Office hours rely on the student to schedule but he's consistently unavailable when you reach out and won't ever explain things/post solutions outside of them.

If this is a Summer C course online for you, take it some other way. This is probably one of the first big boy engineering classes MechEs take, so give yourself the biggest advantage possible. If you do have the misfortune of taking it with him, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW. Thermo is so finnicky and you have to know so many slightly different methods of problem solving for different scenarios, so familiarity and consistency are your friends. Good luck.

Course was not my cup of tea. Very hard textbook (we used borgnakke and sonntag) and problems felt like assumptions were pulled out of nowhere. Homeworks were very long, boring, and hard. It is doable to get an A but you have to pay attention and dedicate a lot of time to the course.

Learned about energy equation balances and such, pretty useful concepts you will probably see a lot in the real world.

Good professor, probably the only reason I passed the course.

Don't take Sherif, not because he is a bad professor, but because the textbook we use is very difficult. Don't take the course after a long day of classes, I had this as my 4th class of the day and I could not pay attention.

Course material builds on itself. Try to take it 1 semester before fluids so that you don't forget everything.

Professor really cares about her students. Quizzes largely matched hw assignments. Final project was fun.

Do hw even if it's optional.

Medium range difficulty and workload course. Make sure to do and also review the homework. Some of the material is pretty straightforward and then some is pretty complex, but nothing too bad.

Great professor! Really cared for the material and graded fairly!!

It’s not too difficult, you just need to keep up with the work load which isn’t that much compared to other courses.

Great professor who really cares about the students, explains concepts well, gives extra credit, and a fair grader.