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Danielle Barker
ENES100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 02/13/2024 |
Dr. Barker (or as she had us refer to her as- Dani) is a very nice person who cares about her students. It was very easy to reach out to her with questions and we got good questions. This was Dani's first semester teaching, so she was not super familiar with everything. The TA she had was very helpful however, and he was able to help a lot with the coding and building phase. As opposed to the other review, I found her grading to be very lenient, especially on large milestone projects (these milestones tended to be slideshows laying out what you have been doing/plans for what you will do.) I think the problem many people ran into was that they did not ask enough questions. Please do not be afraid to ask for clarification on what is required/wanted for these milestones. For my semester, we did not have input as to who we were grouped with or what our team's mission was. I wish we were able to give input on this since having a good team will make or break your grade. Once you do get your group, get to know them quickly because you will be spending a LOT of time together toward the end of the semester. ENES100 is a course where you "learn" and plan for half the semester and build for the other half, however you really do not learn much during the learning portion. You need to hope and pray that you or your team has the background knowledge for this or else you will need to go to a lot more office hours than your peers. If no one on your team has coding knowledge, please please please do not wait until the build phase to learn. Overall I found ENES100 is a fun class, however this will largely depend on if you have a good and knowledgeable group who is willing to put in time and effort outside of class. |
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Danielle Barker
ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2023 |
Dr. Barker: This was Dr. Barker's first semester teaching this course, so it's sort of understandable that she wasn't well-versed in the content or intent of the course. She had a good TA that was able to offset her inexperience in this course, but Dr. Barker is qualified in the mechanical engineering field. She is however not super entertaining during lectures nor is she very forgiving with grading. ENES100: This is a course in which the first half you are "learning" the material through lectures and the second half you are building a robot to accomplish an assigned mission. You will likely pay around $50 per group member for robot parts. If you have no experience with CAD, Arduino, C++, electrical components/schematics, and/or fabrication (laser cutter, 3D printer, power/hand tools, etc.), you better hope that you are put with a good group. The lectures do not teach you in enough detail to actually put it to use in this course. I was fortunate to have experience with most of the content from high school, but my group was not the most experienced. The workload of this course is how involved you are in the project and how much work your group members take on. Not a bad course if you are lucky. |