ME 599Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering

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• *UWAFT COURSE* Professor Fraser did a good job advertising this course, and it seemed extremely interesting to work on design team work for course credit. HOWEVER, his explanation of the course is THE FURTHEST from the truth of what goes on. The course is EXTREMELY DEPENDANT on your TA, who manages your work and "support your project". The TA I got was terrible. Never gave any information about what does on for the course, never takes lead to help you in situations where you are stuck, always pushes responsibility for help to someone else, and is generally condescending and somewhat of an a-hole. I would highly discourage ever taking this course unless you know your TA will be involved and…

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• The UWAFT design team version of the course:
  Prof. Fraser did a very good job at marketing the course. The lectures are engaging and interesting, and the projects have limitless potential.
  Unfortunately, your class experience is HEAVILY dependent on your specific TA team lead. I'm sure that some of the TAs are great project managers available to help when needed. Unfortunately, mine was slow to respond, condescending, and generally uninterested in helping.

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• *FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY* Basically ME 751 for undergrads. Content is based on a UW prof's textbook and draws from thermo, electrochemistry, and mass transport. There were 3 assignments, 3 quizzes, and a group presentation (no midterm or final). Assignments were handed in at the beginning of the class, and then you wrote the quiz in the same lecture. The presentations were on different types of fuel cells and basically replaced lectures in the last month (20 minutes per person, groups of 4-5). You also had to grade the other presentations. Instructions weren't clear most of the time. The course was unorganized due to having quizzes and presentations during lectures; they would run late…

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• The Fuel Cells special topic course was a very interesting class. It was blended with the masters level class and it was quite a high level conceptually. Strongly recommend either taking ME599 Fuel Cells along with Combustion taught by Dr. Li, or having a strong background in Chemical Engineering concepts. There is a lot of heavy assignments but they are marked generously if you complete them to the best of your ability. The only thing that kinda scared me was that we didn't get marks back until near the end so I really didn't even know if I was passing?? Yes, there's no final but it's not a bird course per se so you should really only take this course if you're genuinely very passionate…

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• I enrolled in the Building Energy Analysis (BEA) offering of ME 599 with Professor David Mather.
  Overall, BEA is a crucial course to consider for your fourth year if you want to contribute to the HVAC sub-discipline of mechanical engineering. The course covers simulation of mechanical equipment (fans, boilers, etc.) operating at part load and full load. If you are from the Mechanical stream, then be sure to review the chapter on conduction and radiation from ME 353 - Heat Transfer 1!
  The course consists of four projects, but for the Undergraduate students, only the project with the highest grade out of the second and third one will be used for calculating the final grade. The project…

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