{"id":1026,"date":"2021-06-24T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2021-06-24T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T10:14:58","slug":"tchucks-quotes-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/2021\/06\/24\/tchucks-quotes-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Tchuck&#8217;s Quotes #15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[291-302] I think that he does care. I do personally think that I like the way that he teaches. Because, I think that, basically he just throws an example. So, he&#8217;ll go in-depth explaining a little bit why do think that it&#8217;s needed? He uses examples that I think are applicable. For instance, for probability example, he uses Sixers players, 76ers players, which, I personally found interesting. I don&#8217;t know about everyone else in the class. And then he also specifically tries to, for most of the problems, because that Sixers don&#8217;t, he&#8217;ll mostly find a random one. For most part, he does it, like involving biomedical stuff. So, I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 Whether it&#8217;d be, devices, probably it&#8217;d be getting cancer, any little thing that involves it, he does try to throw it in there, which I also think is good. Because obviously that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s called biomedical statistics or whatever. But I think because, especially with statistics class, because there&#8217;s nothing super specific for biomedical.<\/p>\n<p>[306-358] So, <em>the biomedical devices and systems <\/em>class is a mess. It&#8217;s his first [&#8230;] So, the guy that&#8217;s teaching it, from what I&#8217;ve heard, he basically runs the ECE department, which is electrical engineering at <em>my institution.<\/em> And the ECE department is run really well. They have a hundred percent placement rating after graduating. Ridiculous. And he supposedly runs it. But now, he&#8217;s teaching this class for the first time, and I don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s ever taught a class ever. And it just a whole ass mess because, for one, his homework policy is that, the homework&#8217;s not due until [&#8230;] Well, he has a due date that, when you&#8217;re tentatively supposed to hand in, so you hand it in. So, it&#8217;s not due until he hands back people&#8217;s grades. He hasn&#8217;t handed back any homework the entire semester. I&#8217;ve only done the first two homework assignments. I think there&#8217;s been four or five because he hasn&#8217;t graded any of them yet. And I also heard that apparently one year, he literally just didn&#8217;t grade any whatsoever. Like at all. It was for a different class but [&#8230;] And then, we tried to do a lab because we&#8217;re in an ECE lab setting where it has a bunch of, I don&#8217;t even know what the devices are called to be honest, but a bunch of, basically devices where &#8230; I know the one thing that we did was a wave simulator. So, we did Stein leaves and stuff. And, he basically tried to have this lab on one [&#8230;] It was supposed to be a lab for one day, he just had to use it and then do this lab and his instructions were so bad. A lot of the devices were different, which he didn&#8217;t account for. He didn&#8217;t do a good job explaining the paper itself, the hand-out that he gave us wasn&#8217;t very clear. The only way that we were somehow able to get through it is because there were seniors in that class that were already ECEs. So, everything that we&#8217;re doing in the class was still pretty easy for them because they already had gone through it. Whereas also us as BMEs, we&#8217;re looking at this and like, &#8220;I really don&#8217;t know 100% what he&#8217;s talking about sometimes.&#8221; But, basically, they went around helping us with the lab. We still never even got real data from the lab. He mentioned I think once or twice about writing our lab report, there&#8217;s literally one line at the end of the document that said to write a lab report for it. Without that, no one has any data. Let&#8217;s see. He had an exam [&#8230;] Oh, I forgot to include that exam because it was literally such a joke because it was a take home exam. And literally, everyone worked together on it basically. And it was a joke and also some even got a grade back on that. So, I was completely fried about that. That&#8217;s how much of a joke his class had been. Also, the school issued a mandated thing that, we&#8217;re supposed to hear from all our teachers by Wednesday, which was yesterday. Well, in terms of what they&#8217;re going to do for our class and stuff <em>considering we are transitioning online<\/em>. And I&#8217;ve also gotten emails from, I think all my other professors, besides him. Even before this, just at least saying something, he hasn&#8217;t emailed anything at all. So, I have no clue what this class is going to do. I have no clue what we&#8217;re doing now that this happened. And, this class, I really [&#8230;] Yeah, I don&#8217;t know. I can&#8217;t really describe it much better than it&#8217;s an entire mess. And I think the whole idea like he tries to teach us during class. He&#8217;ll basically just go on rants about I think stuff that he finds interesting that is also probably semi relative to the curriculum. However, I still don&#8217;t even really know what the curriculum is supposed to be specifically for this. Because, he will go talk about, some systems and devices and he&#8217;ll also hand us out diagrams of complex ass circuitry stuff. And we&#8217;re like, &#8220;Yeah, well, we don&#8217;t know what the hell this is.&#8221; And he&#8217;s taught us some stuff, I know he&#8217;s talked about capacitors and types of filters and stuff along those lines, but for a majority of it, a lot of it goes over our head. And we try and ask them questions, but also, to be honest, I&#8217;m not even going to lie, the feeling that I get as a class is people are starting to give up on him, which obviously, it&#8217;s bad. And he&#8217;s also doesn&#8217;t seem like he&#8217;s putting that much effort in either. So, if no one is putting <em>in <\/em>effort and then nothing&#8217;s going to get done. And, in my opinion, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve seen happening. It&#8217;s pretty sad. I&#8217;m just being completely honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[291-302] I think that he does care. I do personally think that I like the way that he teaches. Because, I think that, basically he just throws an example. So, he&#8217;ll go in-depth explaining a little bit why do think that it&#8217;s needed? He uses examples that I think are applicable. For instance, for probability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,65],"tags":[47,46,54,26],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-tchuck","tag-classroom-and-curriculum","tag-faculty-interaction","tag-round4","tag-tchuck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}