Dr. Nordendale is an extremely good professor. His explanations are very clear, he answers questions very well and diligently, the amount of homework he gives out is very manageable, and his tests are very fair. The tests mostly just follow up on homework problems, so you know what to expect, but the best thing is that it judges you fairly well on your ability to do statics. He also works in the industry (consulting??? I don't know if that's the right way to put it) on statics and such, so a lot of the advice and knowledge he gives is relevant to the field right now. Overall, his class was extremely useful and nice to take, and I would definitely take it again with Dr. Nordendale.

(note--taken online due to covid)

Dr. Nordendale is an all-around great professor. Exams are reasonable and fairly graded; homeworks are straightforward and reinforce the material learned in class, and the lectures were live (not pre-recorded) and he frequently stopped to take questions. I'd definitely recommend taking this class.

Professor Nordendale is a great professor. His homework assignments are reasonable and are directly related to what we go over in class. His exams are very fair and he is very clear about what will be on the exam so you know exactly what to study. I really enjoyed his teaching as he thoroughly explained his slides and worked through example problems. He was very open to questions (sometimes did say that he would have to skip some just because we were running low on time) and genuinely cares about his students.

A really great professor. He made it clear to us from the start that his main objective was having us actually learn rather than testing us or trying to trick us. Homework and exams were very fair and were directly related to examples in lectures. Dr Nordendale also spent extensive time each lecture going through several different examples, making sure all bases were covered and we weren't surprised by anything on the homework or tests. All in all a great experience and I wish more professors were this considerate and helpful!

Nordendale was an absolutely terrific professor. The class itself was not very hard, and it was made enjoyable by Nordendale's excellent teaching. He was super good at online lecturing, using slideshows with lots of example problems that he went through by hand. Having all those examples ready to be referenced was so useful, and he also uses Piazza which made it very easy to ask questions. If it is online again, I would recommend not going to lectures live and just watching the recordings. The homework was not crazy and was due once a week, and it was a three way even split between final, single midterm, and homework. The exams were super fair, there were not surprises and they were much like the homework. Our final also got extended to a week long, it included some tricky problems but honestly it was good fun to work on at leisure. 10/10 class