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Andrew Becnel
ENAE283 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/17/2020 |
Had him for 283 summer 2020, so the class was completely online. He gave synchronous lectures with a couple exceptions for prerecorded ones, but all were recorded. Assignments were fair and was pretty generous (in my opinion) for partial credit on exams. Quizzes were mostly conceptual concepts and HW was more similar to exam questions. Overall would recommend. |
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Andrew Becnel
Anonymous 06/10/2020 |
I have had Dr. Becnel a total of 4 times throughout my career in college, due to the pre-planned nature of the Aerospace schedule for Space Track. That being said, it's not a bad experience, he is very knowledgeable and will always say "I don't want to be the professor to fail you and cause you not to graduate" so that should tell you how he is. Very accessible outside of class, I would say he probably responds to emails within maybe 20-40 minutes after you send it. For the first semester, when I had him for 423 and 483, I viewed him as a very intelligent, but dry and sorta boring guy that just taught basically like a textbook and so you always had the info you needed but not too much more. His style of lecturing involves presenting concepts and then having you think over a more difficult problem that involves those concepts at the end of lecture to discuss the next time class meets. Be prepared because he will award participation credit to those who write it out and actually do it. For the second semester, when he taught 464 and was the lead in our 484 capstone, my perspective of him changed given the more personal interaction I had to have with him as the advisor for our project. I would say if you find him to be boring in lecture, it's probably because he's just kinda awkward and presenting in front of a large group for any awkward person tends to cause them to shift to an almost robotic state. You should go to his office hours (all the way in the manufacturing building) and just talk to the guy I think you'll gain new respect for him. All in all, great professor, learned a lot, very fair with assignments and grading, although some of the assignments were pretty frustrating. |
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Andrew Becnel
ENAE654 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/08/2020 |
The transition to online due to the pandemic was especially bad. He moved his lectures from live to pre-recorded. HIs lecture slides were very generic and did not go into depth on the mathematical nuances required to solve homework and exam questions. One exam question on the final was practically unsolvable unless you read a section of an optional textbook in-depth. The class normally has a lab component where you construct a composite by hand using various methods. These were replaced with some arbitrary write-up assignments in which no rubric nor sample was provided to give guidance on the matter. What our team thought was a good term project write up (met all of his reqs.) turned out to be not good in his eyes. We received vague feedback on the assignment that didn't help us understand what we did wrong. Although it seems like Spring 2021 won't have the same issues, many of the problems I stated earlier are just exacerbated versions of his in-person teaching. |
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Andrew Becnel
ENAE283 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/12/2018 |
Good and fair. Somewhat boring. |