Statics itself is not a difficult subject, and Dragos is a decent professor. Everything up to the midterm is essentially basic static equilibrium, and the content after the midterm is slightly more challenging. One thing about the class is that the professor's grading scheme was 50% midterm 50% final (no homework!), with extra credit opportunities amounting to a maximum of 10% EC. Tests were reasonable and not too challenging, with problems often coming straight out of the textbook. As long as you do the recommended problems in the book, you should be fine.

This class was probably easy for most students and it wasn't the most difficult class ever. Grading scheme was half midterm half final, which was maybe a cause for concern in the beginning, but he didn't make it too hard. My gripe is that the class structure was based off of slides from the textbook, and he often rushed through steps of how to do the problems (which was important, because he didn't ask that many conceptual problems during the test) OR would spend the 2 hour class block talking about something that was based off of his own passions and hard to follow. I just feel like a lot of the class would be clearer if he had just spent the time explaining how to do the problem sets he recommended, especially because we didn't have discussion due to the strike for the last couple weeks. In all honesty though, it wasn't anything too crazy.
I also tried to contact him right after he posted grades because I was very close to the next grade up but he basically ignored me. I guess it would've been nice to get at least an answer if he wasn't going to entertain the idea at all.

In the beginning 4 weeks of the class, Andrei was away in New Zealand for something. To be quite honest, he hasn't really figured out online class, and he tended to just go through the slides. If it wasn't for his extra credit policy, where if you participate by asking a good question or answering one you will receive 1% towards your total, I would have fallen asleep every time. (I still probably did).
The lectures were extremely boring, however that is less to with the prof, and more with the subject material. You learn vector addition, law of sines, cross and dot product, and drawing FBD's, which are usually covered in the pre-requisites for the class- Multivariable calculus (32A) and Newtonian physics (1A).
However, in person, the lectures are completely different. Andrei will walk around the classroom and lecture, making it engaging and fun for students. He'll occasionally tell cute stories about Romania loololol.
I was worried about the grade scheme, with a 50% midterm and 50% final, but the tests were pretty simple imo. If you do the practice problems and the problems in the lecture slides you will be more than prepared, as the exam is mostly those same problems.
Unfortunately, the lectures were not recorded, so it was harder for me in the back half of the quarter.
Overall, Statics is not an incredibly involved class, but Dragos made it interesting and engaging, and it was my first actual foray into engineering classes!