The class is basically a free A that as a ChemE, you just get done and over with your fall quarter. Basically, you do a weekly writing prompt, that will be in-class in the beginning of the lecture, that you get 10 minutes to do. You simply do outside research to answer prompts that are all on the syllabus. Just do research to back your stuff up with statistics and numbers, that aren't made up.

The end of the quarter test is rather tricky and oddly specific, but worth relatively little, so you can bomb it and still get a good grade.

To be honest, the professor only lectured something like 3-4 ish times, with nothing but lectures from other professors, which were extremely hit and miss. Some were basic and really didn't teach us much, others went right over the heads of everyone. A few were really good, a few were mind-numbingly boring, while others were mediocre. This is a class that helps out your GPA, but really is something to just get done and over with.

100% participation. just go to class

Easy class you take as a freshman chemE major. Listen you will probably remember nothing from this class. Just go to weekly seminar as attendance is mandatory and just sit there and listen. The weekly essays are extremely annoying but just do them, it's fine. They are graded a bit harshly imo but as long as you consistently get more than 8/10 you will get an A. also just remember one guest presentation you really liked, you'll need that ;) Good luck

This class is mainly for people to get an understanding of what chemical engineering is. The fact that there were 6 essays seemed horrible at first, but they are 500 words and entirely doable. The final essay is also 500 words and he gave us a couple of days to turn it in. It's a good introductory course seminar and it helps people realize if chemical engineering is for them or not.

Taken while it was online, so this class might be pretty different.

So our entire grade was based on 6 normal essays (on varying engineering topics) and one final essay on the guest lecturers. The normal essays were weighted between 12% and 14% each and the final was worth 20%. And according to him, as long as you got ~7/10 or higher on the essays, you would get an A in the class (I got usually between 8.5s and 10s). And since the essays were 100% of our grade, I only attended 1 class the whole quarter and then I just rewatched a couple guest lectures right before I wrote my final paper.

In my opinion, while the class was easy in terms of mostly everyone getting As, 7 essays is A LOT for a one-unit class. I talked with friends in other intro engineering classes and they have little to no work at all.

This is a seminar where several professors from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department come and talk about chemical engineering in general and the research they are conducting. It's cool to have professors shed light on different niche applications of chemical engineering; on the other hand, this means that the lecture can be anywhere from basic to super-technical to reflective to comic. Several of the professors clarify what chemical engineering is, and that helped me gain a lot of clarity.

There are five quizzes, each worth 10% of your grade. There was one undergrad grader who graded all of our quizzes on a scale of 1 to 10. I personally thought it difficult to obtain a 10, let alone a 9, as I do not write very quickly and earned 7's and 8's. Each class you attend and initial (Prof. Tang hands out a sheet during each class) gives you 3% of your grade, for a total of 30%. The final, a 20-multiple-choice-question test, asks about the professors' research. Some of the questions were quite pointless--one of them asked you to recall the correct percentage of annual incident solar energy used by the global population-- 20%, 2%, 0.2%, or 0.02%. ARE YOU SERIOUS? This is NOT learning--this is memorizing. Dr. Hung V. Pham would not approve.

I got 85% on the final and ended up with an A- (apparently the class was curved/scaled/something). The average was 79% and the median was 80%.

This class is shlight work. Regular quizzes, but the quiz prompts are given out beforehand. Quiz format is writing a paragraph based on the prompt. Final is based on the slides that the ChemE department faculty present in the class.

ChemE 10 is a pretty straight forward class. Show up to class, and prepare a few things for the quiz and you will get an A.

Tang was not particularly motivating in the class as his attendance was poor. However, this is of minor importance as the purpose of ChemE 10 is to inspire interest rather than impart knowledge.