Prerecorded lectures, great explanations in class, lots of helpful example problems and tests can be difficult but if you went to class and did the homeworks, there are no curveballs, so I thought the questions were very fair. Compliant mechanisms are soon going to be absolutely everywhere in mechanical design, so I highly recommend this class as Hopkins is a world-class researcher in this rapidly developing field.

However, having 19 to 38 people per final project group made it a gigantic mess, and only a handful of students actually did any work. It was so logistically complicated and overwhelming, it made the last few weeks of this course unbearable. If it wasn't for the final project, this class would be an overall 5/5 without a doubt.

We stan Mr. John Hopkins, despite the class being online he's been a really clear teacher who explains things well and gives fair exams. Instead of zoom lectures he uploads all the videos on Youtube at once, and you watch them at your own pace. He tells you ahead of time what topics will be covered on the exams. There's two exams (one midterm and one "final" in week 9) that are both take-home exams for 24 hours, and they're difficult but straightforward. There's an individual final project due during finals week.