[84-91] Engineering economics was a class which I looked forward to for a very long time since like sophomore year. Then, I got into class and now unfortunately I don’t like it at all because it’s a lot of work in Excel. I do like Excel. It’s not that issue. It’s more that it can be a problem and he can show the problem very quickly and you barely have time to read it. Then he has already solved the problem in Excel so it’s just going over the numbers very quickly in Excel. The issue with that is to understand Excel you need to see what’s inside every box because every box has a formula. So, he’s not teaching us what formulas are used when. It’s here you get a number and here you get a different number. So, most of us don’t understand anything. So, the classroom experience for engineering economics is not great.
[96-100] The time spent in the economics classroom is mostly a waste of time. I mostly go there just because it’s required attendance, but I don’t learn anything even though I try to pay attention. Then we have some homeworks that’s due. I have people that have taken the class before, so they have been very helpful. Some of their homework can be similar so then I learn by looking at the example and can implement it to my question. That’s how I’m managing the class.
[228-236] I have always been very interested in economics. I’m thinking about doing an MBA on that. I always thought it was important to, especially if you’re going to start a company not only knowing the engineering part of it but also knowing the business part of it so you can actually sell it. I actually didn’t really know what to expect from the course. I just thought the name was fun because I like engineering and I like economics so I thought hey, this can be something useful if I start a company one day. I will maybe learn what to think of and where to plan. Maybe it’s like how much of revenue are you spending on marketing. How can you come up with an investor offer and everything? But when I got there it was nothing like that. It was very focused on aerospace because we’re an aerospace school. I’m not that interested in aerospace.
[238-240] Overall, the main issue is because I don’t understand what’s going on in the class because you’re just going over some numbers without even showing how to get there. So, that’s the most disappointing part of the class.