BME 282Materials Science for Biomedical Engineers

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• The course would be good if it wasn't taught by the absolute definition of a horrible professor. I've never seen someone who looks like they hate teaching more than Mayer and it made classes almost unbearable. Basically taught myself everything because he just read off the slides in a sleep-inducing monotone voice. I really wish I was able to explore this subject more but instead, I was forced to teach myself only what I needed to pass. 2/3 of our class failed the midterm and we had a class average of 42%. Then the class after our grades came out Mayer had the audacity to tell us we should "get together as a class and figure out how we can do better on the final". No I'm not kidding. After…

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• THIS IS THEEEEE WORST COURSE I have ever taken and the most hated class in 2A for my cohort. The lectures were sooo……….boring and useless, which motivated most of the class to never show up. The textbook is completely useless as well, just pages and pages of conceptual ideas, and then just a bunch of numerical calculations you have no idea how to do. Often, they require you to make wild assumptions or just happen to memorize certain values about a property you would normally look for in a chart. The book barely and I mean barely skims the topic and then it tells you to google the rest for yourself. The tutorials are literally questions from the textbook, which usually does not relate to…

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• This course teaches some pretty interesting and useful concepts but at the end of the day, all students want is to pass. The professor teaches in the most monotone voice, simply reading from slides and never emphasizing important topics. The lectures have no correlation to the tutorials while the tutorials have no correlation with the exams. Both the midterm and final included questions which were never taught during lectures and expected students to magically know equations never once mentioned in class. You can tell how much the professor hates the students and ultimately wishes them to do poorly. After a disastrous 23 page midterm, students begged the professor to make the final shorter…

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• Subject itself is pretty interesting but course was extremely shallow and I barely learnt anything. Exams were difficult to score high grades for all the wrong reasons. Midterm was excruciating easy and content coverage was realistically crammable within 2h but there were so few questions for a large weighting such that mistakes magnified an incredulous amount (e.g. straight forward calculations that take ~5min can translate to ~5% of overall course grade). Final exam was full of mistakes and we were forbidden from asking any questions whatsoever. There was content prof explicitly said would not be covered. TAs were super nice and understanding of the situation but there was only so much…

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• Similar to what others have experienced content the prof explicitly said would not be covered showed up on assessments. Make sure you at least skim the textbook to be prepared for these questions. Not the worst course in terms of difficulty.

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