William Fourney

This professor has taught: ENES102, ENES102H, ENES220, ENES232, ENES304, ENES305, HONR288O

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William Fourney ENES102H Anonymous 12/16/2012	Fourney is one of the nicest professors ever. He's always funny in class and telling us stories about his days working with bombs, which are really cool to hear about. As a teacher, he goes over the material you need learn, but his examples are usually a bit easier than what you'll see on the test. Before each of the tests, he'll give you hints on what's going to be on them, which makes studying for them a lot easier. He's pretty soft-spoken in class, but everyone really loves him too much to talk over him. Even so, sitting in the front of the room will benefit you. During our discussion, he'll tend to not give quizzes most times like the other teachers do, which really reduces the stress of having to study for them every week. He does give additional problems though, but since they're group work they're not too bad. Overall, he's a really great and chill professor, so take him if you can.
William Fourney ENES220 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2011	Great professor and really nice guy, and he wears a sick hat most of the time. He will really work with you in office hours until you understand. He definitely wants his class to do well. Exams are very fair, and grading is as well. As a lecturer, he does a lot of examples in order to make the material understandable, as well as show you how to get the right answer. Overall, definitely recommend taking him if you can.
William Fourney ENES220 Expecting an A zhangsta 05/22/2010	awesome professor. he teaches what he thinks is important and is very good at explaining the concepts. exams were fairly straightforward and tended to test your understanding of the fundamentals rather than special cases. in lecture, he'll work out problems that either he made up or one from an old exam.
William Fourney ENES220 frakking_geek 12/31/2009	He teaches completely through example problems which made it difficult for me because I can't learn like that so it forced me to read and outline the book to understand how to do the problems he did during lecture. However, my only problem with him was the teaching style. He's extremely approachable and gives out his home phone number to ask him for any help at any time. Basically, the class is a bit like ENES102 all over again, if you do the homework and all the practice problems for the exam, you'll be fine. I think they're going to make all the sections a bit bigger for next semester due to budget cuts though so it'll be twice the size of a normal enes class for anyone taking it after this fall 09 semester.
William Fourney ENES220 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/20/2009	Great guy! He is a decent lecturer, tends to teach through example problems. He often talks about applications, and real life things that relate to the materiel. He is always willing to meet outside of class. He gives out his phone number and encourages students to call with questions. He is one teacher that wants you to do well, and will sit with you until you understand the material.
William Fourney ENES220 jmartin1 12/11/2008	one of the better professors that I have had since being a student here. he's clear when teaching the material, and most of the example problems he does on the board are pretty helpful.
William Fourney ENES220 Expecting an A avigana 07/24/2008	He is a good lecturer and makes himself pretty accessible outside of class. He stresses what is important and tries to present the material in as simple a manner as possible.
William Fourney ENES102 Expecting a B Var 07/08/2008	He is clear, straightforward, and more than willing to help if you ask. Works through example or homework problems slowly but carefully. I did not find myself in need of a textbook to work any problems or study until about halfway through the semester. A word of caution, though: It is extremely important that you pay closest attention when he is teaching the concepts of the course rather than just equations or going through problems. Knowing the concepts and thinking about how you can apply them are key to succeeding in statics.
William Fourney ENES102H Anonymous 12/31/2007	He tends not to explain much in class, and often dawdles on problems, leading to a total of 1 or 2 problems being finished. In addition, he doesn't provide much in terms of actually teaching the material, and it is the responsibility of the student to read from the textbook, which isn't any better. In terms of tests, a piece of advice would be to disregard the examples he gives you, since the test questions will be nowhere near simple and easy as that example.
William Fourney ENES102H Expecting an A- scroofoo 10/23/2007	I had him for ENES102 but I think the same will apply. He is a great lecturer and fair grader. Nothing is mind-blowing about the exams or homework. Work consists of weekly homeworks from the book, a project, and 3-4 tests. Statics is pretty much straight vector math and some physics 1 concepts. Supplement your notes from lecture with reading the book (its a well-written book) to get pretty easy A's on exams.