Jin is honestly really on top of it--she has her lectures well-planned and is very good at giving us a clear view on what we're learning. She warned us many times that the strength of materials portion would be way more challenging than the statics portion, which was a good heads up to not slack off. Lectures are long so it's kinda hard to pay attention the whole time especially on Zoom but every single word she says is very beneficial to doing well in the class. She also was very reasonable about due dates and accommodations and gave us more than one chance during the quarter to give her feedback on the class structure. If you pay attention in class, do all the psets, and truly understand the derivations, you should do okay. There was a midterm around week 6 and then a quiz and final--they were very fair in my opinion, but were challenging because you really had to manage your time well. I honestly just struggled a lot with accuracy in problem-solving since a lot of the problems involve a ton of algebra.

Prof. Jin is a pretty nice professor and she wants you to succeed. Her lectures consist of her basically introducing the material and then doing a couple of examples. For me, I think this was pretty helpful, but for others it wasn't. So, I would recommend reviewing the content beforehand and then coming to lectures to reinforce the material. The homeworks are doable and they weren't overly difficult, rather time consuming (usually 6-8 problems). They are graded on accuracy, but I never lost more than 2 points for the entire homework (each problem is 10 points). The discussions were alright; they were basically a summary of the lecture and some example problems. I feel like the TA read out loud his steps rather than explaining what he was doing and he went really fast, so it was hard to follow along. The grade distribution is 15% HW, 28% Midterm, 14% Quiz and 43% Final. You could get up to 5% extra credit if you asked a good question during class or found an error in the slides/her work. The midterm, quiz and final weren't too bad and you should be in good shape for it if you are able to do the problems in lecture, homework and discussion. The average for midterm and quiz was about 70% and 75% respectively. Final distributions were not posted, but it was the same difficulty of midterm and quiz. Make sure to utilize TA and professor office hours if you don't get the concepts as I feel like the content was pretty rushed in the strengths of materials portion, which is also the harder part of the class. Overall, I would recommend taking this class with Professor Jin.

Statics is pretty easy. Strengths of materials get more difficult. Really be diligent to conceptually understand everything and then spend plenty of time doing practice problems. Professor Jin is very good and does a good job explaining everything.

Jin was a solid professor. She filled her lectures with multiple examples, and we never got lost too deep in theory. However, she does manage to fit a lot of content in each lecture, so sometimes lectures felt a bit fast-paced. All the exams seemed fair. The questions were almost always similar to class examples and homework, and it never felt like there were questions meant to trick you. However, exams were timed, and sometimes there were heavy algebra calculations, so good time management was key.

Professor Jin is fantastic! I've learned so much from her this quarter thanks to her efficient and clear lecturing style. She never spends more time than necessary on derivations in class and has plenty of examples in each lectures to show us exactly how to solve the questions. The homework wasn't too hard and didn't take much time. The midterm, quiz and final were all fair, though all three were time crunches so it can be difficult to solve all the questions. She also stresses (no pun intended) that the second half of the class will be harder, which helps with making sure you didn't slack off after going through all of statics. I would 100% recommend you take Professor Jin if you want a solid understanding of statics and structures, and if you want a class with a reasonable workload and reasonable exams.