Professor
Amartya Banerjee
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Fall 2021 - This is a super fun seminar course for entering freshmen in materials science and engineering. In this class you'll be making cookies and ice cream, creating and breaking beams, and listening to (what I thought were) interesting lectures at the end by guest presenters including professors and PhD students. This class was really just a chance to have fun and socialize with other MatSci majors. The entire grade depends on one paper you submit at the end of the quarter. The paper focuses on a topic of the student's choosing relating to materials science, and it cannot exceed three pages (including images and works cited). Do not go try hard on the paper like I did—most people wrote it in no more than two days and got A's.
Fall 2021 - This is a super fun seminar course for entering freshmen in materials science and engineering. In this class you'll be making cookies and ice cream, creating and breaking beams, and listening to (what I thought were) interesting lectures at the end by guest presenters including professors and PhD students. This class was really just a chance to have fun and socialize with other MatSci majors. The entire grade depends on one paper you submit at the end of the quarter. The paper focuses on a topic of the student's choosing relating to materials science, and it cannot exceed three pages (including images and works cited). Do not go try hard on the paper like I did—most people wrote it in no more than two days and got A's.
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Winter 2022 - Prof Banerjee switched up the curriculum a little bit so instead of learning LabView and some other measurement things, you'll primarily work with matlab for ~5 weeks followed by arduino projects for the rest of the quarter. The occasional lectures are pretty decent since the professor is personable and makes them decently relevant to modern applications. Unless you have no experience in coding whatsoever, this class is super easy, and if you like your groupmates, it's pretty fun too The professor is super flexible with due dates for assignments and is there for almost the entire time alongside the TA, so it's really easy to get help if you need it. There may be a 15-20 min lecture, but after that, you're free to start the homework, so I never ended up thinking about this class outside of the class itself. The homework varies in difficulty but you can get it done pretty quickly if you split up the problems among your groupmates. This class is an easy A, so if you have any coding experience, it's worth taking. The professor and TA (Hsuan Yu) were extremely helpful and friendly, so it's kind of hard to have a bad time taking this class
Winter 2022 - Prof Banerjee switched up the curriculum a little bit so instead of learning LabView and some other measurement things, you'll primarily work with matlab for ~5 weeks followed by arduino projects for the rest of the quarter. The occasional lectures are pretty decent since the professor is personable and makes them decently relevant to modern applications. Unless you have no experience in coding whatsoever, this class is super easy, and if you like your groupmates, it's pretty fun too The professor is super flexible with due dates for assignments and is there for almost the entire time alongside the TA, so it's really easy to get help if you need it. There may be a 15-20 min lecture, but after that, you're free to start the homework, so I never ended up thinking about this class outside of the class itself. The homework varies in difficulty but you can get it done pretty quickly if you split up the problems among your groupmates. This class is an easy A, so if you have any coding experience, it's worth taking. The professor and TA (Hsuan Yu) were extremely helpful and friendly, so it's kind of hard to have a bad time taking this class
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