Jacob Rosen
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: N/A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 3, 2022

Welcome to emotional damage, the class. There's so many things wrong with this class that I'm not sure where to start. Take any other capstone, this one sucks.

The capstone project is the dumbest fucking thing ever. For an entire quarter all they had us do was market research and product development, with a ridiculous amount of unnecessary work. They had us come up with NINE ideas for projects which all had to address similar things and search for scientific papers and market research for each one. The way it was set up though, they wouldn’t accept any specific concepts until halfway through the quarter, forcing us to go into extreme detail on slightly different technologies and applications concurrently without being able to finalize an actual design. This ended up with nobody having a project that they wanted or enjoyed, since all we would be doing was researching technologies and applications that were far beyond the scope of a college level project. We had to do a presentation EVERY FUCKING WEEK on the market research, doing shit like giving market pitches and presenting to investors. This entire past quarter was basically a business class for our engineering capstone.

The instructors can eat my entire ass for the way they organized the class. For some reason, our MAE capstone is combined with the EE capstone with Prof. Mehta Ankur, another extremely poorly rated instructor. We have 9-person groups split between MAE and EE students with different sections that don’t align, forcing us to spend even more time outside of class to get any project work done. During the sections that don’t align, we basically wasted our time listening to lectures from TAs on topics that we’ve already learned in other classes and had zero relevance to what we were currently doing for the project, leaving us with 2/6 class hours to actually get some work done. They attempted to have us work on a separate lab involving a mini wood-bot, which they dropped halfway through the quarter probably realizing how pointless it was.

The professors have absolutely zero respect for their students’ time. They give very little notice for the actual requirements for our weekly presentations, forcing us to work the day before to grind on it. One week they released the guidelines at 7pm the day before it was due, when they literally spent class the day before talking about geometric tolerances (yet another topic that we’re not using and should have already learned before). On the day that I’m posting this review, they had us show up to the first section and wait 15 minutes before telling us that they had nothing planned for the entire day, when half our group commuted an hour to get there. They don’t bother communicating with students in a timely manner, and didn’t even bother announcing that both sections were canceled.

TLDR: Fuck you, you can eat my entire fucking dick for the way you’re ruining these last two quarters.

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Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: N/A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 9, 2022

The other reviews tell the full story, but leave out the subtle bites that make this class truly special.
Professor Rosen's class is Jack Daniels' whiskey. Bold label, burns your nostrils off at first contact.

Just like the other reviews state, the class is an ineffective, roundabout grasp at teaching systems engineering and business planning. There are no hints for team lead organizations, nothing about how to appropriately delegate tasks. These skills are either prerequisite or learned *despite* the class. It's either an ineffective way to teach management or an extremely effective way to waste my time.

We open with a sad story. The syllabus features notes and hints on each project and assignment...
but all the hyperlinks are broken. The *crucial* tips are missing. Hmm. This bodes well.

From there it doesn't get much better.
More often than not, each class was a charcuterie of short presentations from each group. In up to four consecutive hors at a time, we sat through our classmate's identical presentations. I'm not saying I've slept through this class, I'm promising it. And after each presentation(which could last up to thirty minutes per group), the professors gave minimal feedback. Each week effectively became an exercise in futility, with assignments often posted *two days before due*.

Furthermore, the class did not have example slides or help on any assignment- if the TA or professor was asked for input they would devil's advocate your work into the god damn ground. Even if they admitted your project and work was solid. It was like they were sniffing for cracks to hit. I'm sure that some people thrive in this class, and I'm also sure that those people would be better off working in business. I cannot emphasize enough how little I have learned from this class.

In a little anecdote, in order to make class on time I skipped a performance review with my boss, paid $10 for parking...
And then found out that we were slated to "do group work". This happened four times. Each pointless meeting is a waste of my time and money.

Another time, we had a "shark tank" style presentation where other professors would query our presentations and concepts. They also had only one minute to ask questions, and they chose to ask inane questions about their fields of expertise. We didn't get any valuable feedback, and that was a wasted week of work and research.

The worst part? I'm now *less* of an engineer for this class.
Do you have any background in CS/CAD/SysEn/PCB layout? It doesn't matter here. What this class seems poised to teach is... branding. How to sell your project. Internal politick. Bleeding requirements from a stone.

That's valuable and useful, sure. Anyone looking to be project lead or work in the cutting edge needs this lesson sooner than later. But god damn it Rosen, can students at least have their last vestige of soul remain intact?
We assign tasks and give people work on a vague understanding of their skills because the actual engineering deliverables are so far off that we spend our time worrying about the best graphic to put on our slide deck.

TL;DR: A start-up experience for the discerning consumer. Honestly I'm tired of thinking about it. Just be prepared for 0% engineering- one truly cannot stress how awful this class is.

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Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: N/A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 9, 2022

The other review posted here pretty much sums it up. Take any other CAPSTONE class unless you don’t actually want to do any engineering and also hate yourself. Bonus points for Rosen being completely unable to project his voice during lectures and also not having a microphone. I couldn’t even hear him when he was sitting across the same table as me - this is not sarcasm. Great TAs though, best part of the class.

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Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: N/A
March 3, 2022

Welcome to emotional damage, the class. There's so many things wrong with this class that I'm not sure where to start. Take any other capstone, this one sucks.

The capstone project is the dumbest fucking thing ever. For an entire quarter all they had us do was market research and product development, with a ridiculous amount of unnecessary work. They had us come up with NINE ideas for projects which all had to address similar things and search for scientific papers and market research for each one. The way it was set up though, they wouldn’t accept any specific concepts until halfway through the quarter, forcing us to go into extreme detail on slightly different technologies and applications concurrently without being able to finalize an actual design. This ended up with nobody having a project that they wanted or enjoyed, since all we would be doing was researching technologies and applications that were far beyond the scope of a college level project. We had to do a presentation EVERY FUCKING WEEK on the market research, doing shit like giving market pitches and presenting to investors. This entire past quarter was basically a business class for our engineering capstone.

The instructors can eat my entire ass for the way they organized the class. For some reason, our MAE capstone is combined with the EE capstone with Prof. Mehta Ankur, another extremely poorly rated instructor. We have 9-person groups split between MAE and EE students with different sections that don’t align, forcing us to spend even more time outside of class to get any project work done. During the sections that don’t align, we basically wasted our time listening to lectures from TAs on topics that we’ve already learned in other classes and had zero relevance to what we were currently doing for the project, leaving us with 2/6 class hours to actually get some work done. They attempted to have us work on a separate lab involving a mini wood-bot, which they dropped halfway through the quarter probably realizing how pointless it was.

The professors have absolutely zero respect for their students’ time. They give very little notice for the actual requirements for our weekly presentations, forcing us to work the day before to grind on it. One week they released the guidelines at 7pm the day before it was due, when they literally spent class the day before talking about geometric tolerances (yet another topic that we’re not using and should have already learned before). On the day that I’m posting this review, they had us show up to the first section and wait 15 minutes before telling us that they had nothing planned for the entire day, when half our group commuted an hour to get there. They don’t bother communicating with students in a timely manner, and didn’t even bother announcing that both sections were canceled.

TLDR: Fuck you, you can eat my entire fucking dick for the way you’re ruining these last two quarters.

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COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: N/A
March 9, 2022

The other reviews tell the full story, but leave out the subtle bites that make this class truly special.
Professor Rosen's class is Jack Daniels' whiskey. Bold label, burns your nostrils off at first contact.

Just like the other reviews state, the class is an ineffective, roundabout grasp at teaching systems engineering and business planning. There are no hints for team lead organizations, nothing about how to appropriately delegate tasks. These skills are either prerequisite or learned *despite* the class. It's either an ineffective way to teach management or an extremely effective way to waste my time.

We open with a sad story. The syllabus features notes and hints on each project and assignment...
but all the hyperlinks are broken. The *crucial* tips are missing. Hmm. This bodes well.

From there it doesn't get much better.
More often than not, each class was a charcuterie of short presentations from each group. In up to four consecutive hors at a time, we sat through our classmate's identical presentations. I'm not saying I've slept through this class, I'm promising it. And after each presentation(which could last up to thirty minutes per group), the professors gave minimal feedback. Each week effectively became an exercise in futility, with assignments often posted *two days before due*.

Furthermore, the class did not have example slides or help on any assignment- if the TA or professor was asked for input they would devil's advocate your work into the god damn ground. Even if they admitted your project and work was solid. It was like they were sniffing for cracks to hit. I'm sure that some people thrive in this class, and I'm also sure that those people would be better off working in business. I cannot emphasize enough how little I have learned from this class.

In a little anecdote, in order to make class on time I skipped a performance review with my boss, paid $10 for parking...
And then found out that we were slated to "do group work". This happened four times. Each pointless meeting is a waste of my time and money.

Another time, we had a "shark tank" style presentation where other professors would query our presentations and concepts. They also had only one minute to ask questions, and they chose to ask inane questions about their fields of expertise. We didn't get any valuable feedback, and that was a wasted week of work and research.

The worst part? I'm now *less* of an engineer for this class.
Do you have any background in CS/CAD/SysEn/PCB layout? It doesn't matter here. What this class seems poised to teach is... branding. How to sell your project. Internal politick. Bleeding requirements from a stone.

That's valuable and useful, sure. Anyone looking to be project lead or work in the cutting edge needs this lesson sooner than later. But god damn it Rosen, can students at least have their last vestige of soul remain intact?
We assign tasks and give people work on a vague understanding of their skills because the actual engineering deliverables are so far off that we spend our time worrying about the best graphic to put on our slide deck.

TL;DR: A start-up experience for the discerning consumer. Honestly I'm tired of thinking about it. Just be prepared for 0% engineering- one truly cannot stress how awful this class is.

Helpful?

2 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: N/A
March 9, 2022

The other review posted here pretty much sums it up. Take any other CAPSTONE class unless you don’t actually want to do any engineering and also hate yourself. Bonus points for Rosen being completely unable to project his voice during lectures and also not having a microphone. I couldn’t even hear him when he was sitting across the same table as me - this is not sarcasm. Great TAs though, best part of the class.

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Overall Rating
Based on 4 Users
Easiness 1.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 1.0 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 1.0 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 1.0 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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