BIOENGR 10
Introduction to Bioengineering
Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, three hours. Preparation: high school biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics. Introduction to scientific and technological bases for established and emerging subfields of bioengineering, including biosensors, bioinstrumentation, and biosignal processing, biomechanics, biomaterials, tissue engineering, biotechnology, biological imaging, biomedical optics and lasers, neuroengineering, and biomolecular machines. Letter grading.
Units: 2.0
Units: 2.0
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Fall 2023 - This class was the bane of my existence. I would rather be in BE 100 than this class any day. Besides a handful of guest lecturers, this class was pretty much a waste of time and it has wayyyyy too much busy work for a two-unit class. I can see this class being semi-useful if you are a freshman. But if you are a sophomore or a transfer (junior) it is pretty much a waste of time. I am not someone who leaves everything for the last minute but this class was super annoying in that I always ended up leaving all the work last minute. The class has two long article summaries which u have to write in single space, 11pt font, and a final summary about what you learned, and a bunch of other busy work. My best advice is to try and get all the assignments as early as you can so that you can focus on your other classes that actually matter. The assignments are not hard, they are just extremely pointless and boring.
Fall 2023 - This class was the bane of my existence. I would rather be in BE 100 than this class any day. Besides a handful of guest lecturers, this class was pretty much a waste of time and it has wayyyyy too much busy work for a two-unit class. I can see this class being semi-useful if you are a freshman. But if you are a sophomore or a transfer (junior) it is pretty much a waste of time. I am not someone who leaves everything for the last minute but this class was super annoying in that I always ended up leaving all the work last minute. The class has two long article summaries which u have to write in single space, 11pt font, and a final summary about what you learned, and a bunch of other busy work. My best advice is to try and get all the assignments as early as you can so that you can focus on your other classes that actually matter. The assignments are not hard, they are just extremely pointless and boring.
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Professor Tawil is a terrible professor. I took BE10 with him. The class is not hard, it's just annoying. It's an introductory course so people don't normally take it seriously. I took it while I was a junior so the class was useless to me. Everything is way too broad and you don't learn anything in detail.... due to that fact, it's hard for people to predict what sort of questions will be on the quizzes. However, the class itself has nothing to do with Tawil's teaching abilities. His lectures put people to sleep. He wasn't helpful at all and tried to avoid students by telling his students to go to the TA's office hours instead. Moreover, when it comes down to grading, he was pretty irrational. I actively participated in every lecture and every discussion section. When I had my points break down, I received only a 14 out of 20. So I asked him why... and he told me that he just didn't feel like giving anyone above a 14. He wanted a curve at B- or B and I'm pretty sure he only gave 5% of the class an A or an A-. For the rest of my bioengineering career, I'm avoiding all his classes for electives because he's just an inadequate professor.
Professor Tawil is a terrible professor. I took BE10 with him. The class is not hard, it's just annoying. It's an introductory course so people don't normally take it seriously. I took it while I was a junior so the class was useless to me. Everything is way too broad and you don't learn anything in detail.... due to that fact, it's hard for people to predict what sort of questions will be on the quizzes. However, the class itself has nothing to do with Tawil's teaching abilities. His lectures put people to sleep. He wasn't helpful at all and tried to avoid students by telling his students to go to the TA's office hours instead. Moreover, when it comes down to grading, he was pretty irrational. I actively participated in every lecture and every discussion section. When I had my points break down, I received only a 14 out of 20. So I asked him why... and he told me that he just didn't feel like giving anyone above a 14. He wanted a curve at B- or B and I'm pretty sure he only gave 5% of the class an A or an A-. For the rest of my bioengineering career, I'm avoiding all his classes for electives because he's just an inadequate professor.
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be 10 was superrrr easy. and really boring. the class is structured so that each week, a different upper division bioengineering professor talks about what they do. you get points for asking questions and attendance. if you leave after signing in, dr wu will notice. discussion is only like 5 minutes long. the paper is kind of a pain, but its the only assignment you do all quarter. you dont have to know anything that is lectured about in class. everyone gets an A if you just go to class and follow the given format of the paper.
be 10 was superrrr easy. and really boring. the class is structured so that each week, a different upper division bioengineering professor talks about what they do. you get points for asking questions and attendance. if you leave after signing in, dr wu will notice. discussion is only like 5 minutes long. the paper is kind of a pain, but its the only assignment you do all quarter. you dont have to know anything that is lectured about in class. everyone gets an A if you just go to class and follow the given format of the paper.
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