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How to survive Engineering School


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Richard Felder said:
Chem. Engineering Education, 37(1), 30–31 (2003)
HOW TO SURVIVE ENGINEERING SCHOOL
Richard M. Felder
North Carolina State University
Dear Engineering Student,
Don't take the title of this column literally. Despite the incomprehensible lectures, endless
homework, and impossible tests, studying engineering has rarely been fatal. Nevertheless, things
may not always go quite the way you would like—classes with absurd amounts of work and test
averages in the 50s are facts of life in engineering. I had lots of classes like that when I was
where you are now, and I complained about them just as loudly. Unfortunately, while
complaining may make you feel better, it won’t do a thing for your grades.
I’d like to propose several better ways to help yourself. First, though, let me suggest that the real
problem may not be that professor who’s making your life miserable. It is that over the years you
may have unconsciously bought into a message that goes like this: "My teachers know everything
I need to know to be an engineer. Their job is to tell it to me in lectures, and my job is to soak it
up and then repeat it on exams. If I can do that, I’ve learned it."
Wrong! That approach may have worked in high school but it begins to fail in college, and once
you get into the plant or research lab, it stops working completely. Out there, there are no
professors, lectures, or texts with worked-out examples, and the problems don’t come neatly
packaged with all the information needed to solve them. In fact, often the hardest part of a real
problem is figuring out exactly what the problem is.
But you also need to remember this. Around the world, hundreds of thousands of engineers—
most no smarter than you, many not as smart—who once struggled with their own confusing
instructors and unreadable texts and didn’t understand entropy any better than you do, are out
there doing just fine. Every day they figure out what they need to know to solve their problems,
and then they solve them. If they could learn to do that, so can you. What I’d like to do here is
give you five simple tips to help you start learning it now. If you find yourself struggling in
classes, give the tips a try. If they work (and I’m pretty sure that they will), you’ll have an easier
time in school and hit the ground running in your first job.
Tip 1. Figure out what might make course material clearer and try to get it in class.
Do you ever find yourself expressing one of these common complaints? "I need practical, realworld
applications before I can understand something, but all we get in class is theory." "I want
to understand how things work, but all we get are facts to memorize and formulas to substitute
into." "I understand what I see—pictures, diagrams, demonstrations—better than what I hear and
read, but all we get are words and formulas."
If you do, pay attention to yourself—identifying what you’re missing in a course is the first step
toward getting it. The obvious next step is to ask your professor, in or out of class, for whatever it
may be. Most professors genuinely want their students to learn—that’s why they became
professors—and often complain that their students rarely ask questions except "Are we
responsible for this on the test?" So if you don’t understand something, try asking for something
that might clarify it. "Could you give an example of how you would use that formula?" "Could
you sketch what that (device, solution, plot) might look like?" "Where did that equation you just
wrote come from?" Even if you’re afraid a question may sound stupid, ask it anyway. I guarantee
that others in the class are equally confused and will be grateful to you for having the courage to
speak up. And if you need more help, go to the professor’s office and ask for it.
Caution, however. Even instructors who really want to help will get annoyed if they think you’re
trying to get them to do your homework for you. Never ask your instructor for help on a problem
until you have made a serious effort to solve it by yourself. When you ask, be prepared to show
what you tried and how far you got. Bring in your flow charts and free body diagrams and
calculations, including the ones that didn’t work. The more you bring in, the more likely you are
to get the help you need.
Tip 2. Read.
Some textbooks try to clarify difficult material by giving practical illustrations and explanations.
Check out those parts of your text if you’re having trouble rather than just searching for solved
examples that look like the homework problems. Another good strategy is to look at a second
reference on the same subject—a different text, a handbook, or a Web site. Even if you can’t find
the crystal-clear explanations and examples you’d like, just reading about the same topic in two
different places can make a big difference in understanding.
Tip 3. Work with other students.
When you work alone and get stuck on something, you may be tempted to give up, where in a
group someone can usually find a way past the difficulty. Working with others may also show
you better ways to solve problems than the way you have been using.
Here are two ideas for making groupwork effective.
• Outline problem solutions by yourself first and then work out the details in your group.
Someone in every group is generally fastest at figuring out how to start problem solutions
and does it for every problem when everyone works together. If that student isn’t you, you
may have to figure it out for the first time on the test, which is not a particularly good time
to do it. Outlining the solutions before meeting with the group is the way to avoid this
disaster.
• Get group members—especially the weaker ones—to explain all completed problem
solutions before ending a problem-solving session. If everyone can do that, the session
worked.
Tip 4. Consult experts.
Sometimes you’ll run into a problem that completely stumps you and everyone you’re working
with. When practicing engineers run into such problems, as they all do occasionally, they consult
experts. You also have experts available to you. Your course instructor is an obvious candidate,
but that doesn’t always work out. Other potential consultants include graduate teaching assistants,
other professors who teach the same course, students who have previously taken the course, smart
classmates, and tutors. No matter whom you go to, though, go early: waiting until two days
before the final exam probably won’t cut it.
Tip 5. Believe that you have what it takes to be a good engineer.
If this advice is hard for you to take now, you’re probably suffering from what psychologists
refer to as the Impostor Phenomenon, which is like a tape that plays inside people’s heads. If
you’re an engineering student looking around at your classmates, the tape goes something like
this: "These people are good—they understand all this stuff. They really belong here…but I don’t.
Over the years I’ve somehow managed to fool them all—my family, my friends, my teachers. They
all think I’m smart enough to be here, but I know better…and the very next hard test or hard
question I get in class will finally reveal me as the impostor I am." And what would happen next
is too horrible to contemplate, so at that point you just rewind and replay the tape.
What you don’t know is that almost everyone else in the class is playing the same tape, and the
student in the front row with the straight A average is playing it louder than anyone else.
Furthermore, the tape is usually wrong. If you survived your first year of engineering school, you
almost certainly have what it takes to be an engineer. Just remember all your predecessors who
had the same self-doubts you have now and did just fine. You do belong here, and you’ll get
through it just like they did. Try to relax and enjoy the trip.
Sincerely,
Richard Felder
[Note: For more about student survival skills and the Impostor Phenomenon, go to
.]
Eğlenerek okudum, bir mühendisin kolayca mezun olması için gereken şeyleri anlatmış adam da bunların hepsini uygulayabilmek gerçekten güç, özveri ve tecrübe istiyor :)
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Ben eğitime açtığımı sanıyodum :P teşekkürler

Ben 2. sınıfım ve hocalara gidip soru sordum bir çok kez :) Gel gör ki yine yıldırıyor bölüm dersleri.
Bunu da zaten bölüm derslerinin birinin sitesine hocamız yerleştirmiş "böyle olmadıkça sıçtınız" der gibisinden.
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Mühendislik eğitiminde sorun çekiyorsanız iki nedenden dolayı olabilir:

1. İsteksizsiniz/yapamıyorsunuz. Yukarıdaki yazı size iyi gelecek.
2. Vaktiniz yok. Maalesef bunun için bol uykusuz gecelerden başka bir çözüm yok. Sorun da burada başlıyor zaten, 1 ders için sabahladınız 2 ders için sabahladınız eh yani hocanın ofisine gitmeyi geçtim derse zor yetişirsiniz :)
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ben size söyleyim, yapabiliyorsanız her derse girmeden önce dersin konusunu 1-2 saat çalışın o zaman o dersi %70 civarında falan öğrenirsiniz (öğrenmek derken 15 dakikalık bir okumayla tekrar kavrama) ve çalışmak için harcamanız gerken vakit çok azalır. ama ben tabi bunu çok az yapabildim genelde dönem başında yapıp ortalarına doğru ipin ucunu kaçırıyorum ama çok faydalı bir metod. mühendis değilim ama bence her yerde işe yarar bu
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  • 2 hafta sonra ...
engineer pizza kulesi gibi :D

senko said:
onun içinde düzenli, günü gününe çalışcan işte :)

hiç bi zaman sökmüyo bu. hoca kolpasıdır inanın.

Holy said:
Evet bir kaç yazısını daha okudum hatta derste bunu sitesine koyan hocayla da konuştum. Bu mantıkla hareket ederseniz benden aa almamanız için hiç bir sebep yok diyo utanmadan :P

bölüm dersinden A almak.. Hayal..
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  • 1 yıl sonra ...
Ardeth said:

ben size söyleyim, yapabiliyorsanız her derse girmeden önce dersin konusunu 1-2 saat çalışın o zaman o dersi %70 civarında falan öğrenirsiniz (öğrenmek derken 15 dakikalık bir okumayla tekrar kavrama) ve çalışmak için harcamanız gerken vakit çok azalır. ama ben tabi bunu çok az yapabildim genelde dönem başında yapıp ortalarına doğru ipin ucunu kaçırıyorum ama çok faydalı bir metod. mühendis değilim ama bence her yerde işe yarar bu

(tu)

bide ben bişey keşfettim,
hani gece çalışmaları varya, yapmayın onları.
Sabah çalışın, güneş doğmadan az önce uyanın, kollarınızı ve ensenizi soğuk suyla yıkarıp leş gibi bi çay için.

1-) gürültü kirliliğinin en az olduğu zaman dilimi o zaman, çok rahat
2-) o soğuk su damarlarınızı daraltıp beyninize hızlı kan gitmesini sağlıcak.

Böylece, gece 3-4 saatte yapabileceğiniz işi 10 dakkada yapıcaksınız.
( ha ödev mödevse gece yapın o ayrı, ama anlamalık bir ders ise sabah en iyisi ).

Ayrıca,
Çalışırken, Bir defter yapın. Kitabın üzerinden ( derste aldığınız notlarlar - evet not alın - ) yeni bir not çıkarın. Uzun detaylı ve anlatıcı olsun.
Ve bunu 2-3 kişi oturup yapın, yaparken tartışın. Hem kendinizi ve başkalarını "neden" diye kilitleyin.

Vee en önemlisi,
Sınava girerken kafanız rahat olsun. Bir kız arkadaş ve yeterli saat çalışma bunun için yeterli.
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