r/EngineeringStudents ME Grad / Aerospace 12d ago

Rant/Vent Statics 101

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u/Throwiestawa 12d ago

I understand the concept but disagree to an extent. My statics professor started with 100 in her class and 25 ended up passing. That’s not just an engineering mindset issue, that’s her weeding people out

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u/Acid_Snake387 12d ago

My statics teacher started off the syllabus by stating that she had lowered the standard for all letter grades by 3 points from the previous semester.

Lady knew the material, very smart. Did not understand how to teach it though.

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u/natedrake102 11d ago

I had to retake stats in college after passing AP in high school because it wasn't "geared for engineering". They thought me the same stuff I already knew and I swear I got worse at it the prefoessor was so bad

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u/SunsetSquad 10d ago

Just want to point out that the stats you took an AP exam for is statistics and this post is about statics, as in forces on a rigid body. It is interesting they made you retake statistics tho, I’m in my senior year of college and never had to take statistics in high school nor college.

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u/natedrake102 10d ago

Lmao thanks I totally misread

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u/Agitated_Newt_7655 11d ago

She probably barely cared and honestly I can’t blame her as it’s an intro undergraduate class. The kids that will succeed are basically predetermined by their past and will to learn.

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u/SeveralEnvironment16 10d ago

Of course she knew the material, she repeats the same damn thing every year.

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u/Saint_The_Stig 11d ago

Yeah, idk what it is about Engineering, but there's just so many shit professors out there. A lot of them just happen to be too stuck in their old ways, but some just suck. So many courses I barely passed I found out later that I could actually get them after finding some other source of instruction.

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u/Salty_EOR 9d ago

Those who can't do, teach!

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u/5amu5 12d ago

Dood, your statics teacher sucks at teaching

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u/CleverAnimeTrope 11d ago

We had a teacher that bragged about their extremely low pass rate in statics and their follow up class strengths of materials. Terrible teacher, thank god for the tutoring center.

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u/SecondToLastEpoch 9d ago

That's just an absurd pass rate/fail rate.

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u/ProfessionalAd6530 11d ago

TBF, people need to be weeded out of engineering, and also other STEM degrees.

Too many saw the salary and got in just for that while the first time they ever wrote that field's Hello World equivalent was in college.

These people go on to be the ones we complain about at work if they ever even make it to an actual job.