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Information	Review
Mark Austin ENCE353 Expecting a C Anonymous 11/20/2024	Pros: Exams are online. You have between 12-15 hours to complete them. You have 1.5 - 2 weeks to complete each homework assignment. All lecture slides and materials are posted online. Some lectures are recorded from the COVID era. Typically, every friday is a Q&A and/or homework help session. If you show up to class and go to the Q&A sessions I found Austin to be helpful. Lots of students don't show up to anything which he does notice. Cons: This class is difficult. Having 2 weeks for 3 HW problems or 12 hours for 4 test questions seems like a ton of time but it goes by fast. My #1 tip is to start everything early. There is no textbook. The lecture materials are fine but I often found myself wanting extra examples or a different explanation. You will have to find these things on your own. The class does not necessarily line up with content from other courses.
Mark Austin ENCE353 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/27/2024	Avoid if possible. Verbally abusive. Insulting. Useless at teaching
Mark Austin ENCE353 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/24/2021	This class was one of the most difficult classes I have ever taken. The only way to survive is to utilize ALL of the office hours. Exams are take at home, 12 hour, open-note. The problems are hard. There is a lot of deriving equations and using a hybridized form of linear algebra and calculus. Austin's class is not based on ENES220. All homework and exams have two types of problems. Half of them are usually based on the lecture material, but the other half is not taught... you have to figure it out yourself.
Bilal Ayyub ENCE353 John Martin 04/26/2011	real nice guy, tests were very fair and homework wasn't too hard except for the fact it took a long time. as for lecturing, he would literally cut and paste things from the book and put them into a powerpoint and read off of it. because of that, the class got pretty boring after a while. still, he's one of the better structural professors.
Bilal Ayyub ENCE353 Expecting a B Xin 05/18/2010	Really nice guy. His exams are very fair.
Peter Chang ENCE353 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/29/2008	Decent teacher. He usually has some kind of trick to do problems that wont be in the book so its important to go to class. He also gives class problems that are basically open note quizes but another reason not to miss class. Exams are hard but he will give you a practice exam the day before.

Mark Austin
ENCE353

Expecting a C
Anonymous
11/20/2024

Pros: Exams are online. You have between 12-15 hours to complete them. You have 1.5 - 2 weeks to complete each homework assignment. All lecture slides and materials are posted online. Some lectures are recorded from the COVID era. Typically, every friday is a Q&A and/or homework help session. If you show up to class and go to the Q&A sessions I found Austin to be helpful. Lots of students don't show up to anything which he does notice. Cons: This class is difficult. Having 2 weeks for 3 HW problems or 12 hours for 4 test questions seems like a ton of time but it goes by fast. My #1 tip is to start everything early. There is no textbook. The lecture materials are fine but I often found myself wanting extra examples or a different explanation. You will have to find these things on your own. The class does not necessarily line up with content from other courses.

Mark Austin
ENCE353

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/27/2024

Avoid if possible. Verbally abusive. Insulting. Useless at teaching

Mark Austin
ENCE353

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/24/2021

This class was one of the most difficult classes I have ever taken. The only way to survive is to utilize ALL of the office hours. Exams are take at home, 12 hour, open-note. The problems are hard. There is a lot of deriving equations and using a hybridized form of linear algebra and calculus. Austin's class is not based on ENES220. All homework and exams have two types of problems. Half of them are usually based on the lecture material, but the other half is not taught... you have to figure it out yourself.

Bilal Ayyub
ENCE353

John Martin
04/26/2011

real nice guy, tests were very fair and homework wasn't too hard except for the fact it took a long time. as for lecturing, he would literally cut and paste things from the book and put them into a powerpoint and read off of it. because of that, the class got pretty boring after a while. still, he's one of the better structural professors.

Bilal Ayyub
ENCE353

Expecting a B
Xin
05/18/2010

Really nice guy. His exams are very fair.

Peter Chang
ENCE353

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/29/2008

Decent teacher. He usually has some kind of trick to do problems that wont be in the book so its important to go to class. He also gives class problems that are basically open note quizes but another reason not to miss class. Exams are hard but he will give you a practice exam the day before.

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