<p>If you want to see what sort of material ENGE 1024/1114/1104 covers, you can go to ******* and look at past tests. Homeworks were probably the biggest pain in these classes. They would take me 3-6 hours and usually contained about 7-12 pages of a word document. One of the worst parts about the homeworks is that they would force you to use your tablet pc by having to draw something on it, whether it was a graph, sketch, flowchart, etc. This would be extremely frustrating for most since the tablet pc’s are hard to use, especially when you are trying to keep your homework organized on a word document.</p>
<p>Other than that, you have a lecture and a workshop every week. Lecture is where the professor goes over topics in an auditorium. You sign into a program called DyKnow (for dynamic knowledge) and “interact” with the professor on the projector screen. I would recommend never going to class and just signing into DyKnow from your dorm room to collect all the information you need. They will threaten pop quizzes, but this only happened to me once in ENGE 1114, where I got a 50% on a quiz. It didn’t matter though because they dropped the lowest quiz/homework/classwork grade. </p>
<p>Workshop is even more interactive where you do in class projects, whether it’s building a lego car with a circuit board, developing a program in Matlab for a certain scenario, or creating orthographic sketches on your tablet pc. In ENGE1024 I would routinely get out of workshop 30 minutes early (a 1:50 class) but in ENGE1114 I had to stay the whole time. It depends on your TA.</p>
<p>EngE is frustrating because every engineering student has to take at least two of these courses, and often times the student won’t be happy with the material they are covering. For example, I really dislike computer programming and algorithms. But in ENGE1114 1/3 of the class was Matlab and algorithm development, which was a pain for me to learn. </p>
<p>In the end, it’s just a class you have to power through if you want to do engineering at Tech. If you try your hardest you will probably end up with a B+ and if you’re lucky an A-. You can alleviate the pain a little bit by taking the ENGE1024 equivalent at the New River Valley Community College in Christiansburg. A kid in my dorm did this and he didn’t do half the work we did in ENGE1024. Good luck!</p>