Can't recommend enough as a senioritis class. The TAs do the entire lab for you every time, and lab "reports" are just a couple short answer blurbs, straight from the lecture slides. No tests. The final project takes some research but if you put aside like a day for it you can finish it and survive his questioning. Doesn't have to take the full 20 minutes. He is often not clear in his communications but he is very knowledgeable and the lectures aren't too hard to follow.

Easy mech e elective with a light workload. Took it online so format was weekly hw that took less than an hour even if you didn't watch lectures or go to lab. Had one final group project worth 40% that we had basically the whole quarter to do. Professor will rip into your group with questions but then give you a good grade. If you like semiconductors and computer chips, the class is also really interetsing

Any Mechanical Engineer looking for an easy A on an ELECTIVE, please take this class. He's a chill guy with super easy lectures and the labs are even easier. You don't have to do anything, the TAs do everything for you and you just have to turn in the lab reports which are super duper easy. I put in less than 30 minutes of work every week and ended up with a sweet A. There are only 4 lab reports to turn in (the last one is a 4 weeks lab report). There's an easy final and group presentation where the professor will shred you, but you'll end up getting a good grade on it irrespective. Please do yourself a favor and take this class cause the worst grade you'll get is a B and that's only if you really really messed up. Even if you're half decent you pull an easy A for a 4 unit class.

I liked the Nanolab class. It was really interesting and Professor Chen taught it in a way that was easy to understand.

There are weekly quizzes and lab reports. The quizzes are one question and are simple if you did the lab the week before. Lab reports are simple as well. The TAs are very lenient on grading it. There is no midterm for the class, but there is a final. Again, the final is simple as well. There are some short answer questions and a design problem that is easy if you were paying attention during labs/lecture.

Last, but not least, we had a project. This project involved us coming up with a way to fabricate cicada wings. It dealt with choosing the right material, fabrication processes, and characterization tools to try and market this to Professor Chen. It was fairly easy and no report was required; just a presentation.

Grade breakdown was: 25%-project, 25%-final, 40%-lab reports and 10%-quizzes.

I learned a great deal about nanotechnology in this class. I earned an A+ in the class, so I might be biased, but it is something that students do not normally have knowledge about. It actually encouraged me to take more classes in the nano-field.

OMG... he is so hard to understand.

the 187L class is very fun though. lots of hands on stuff and you get to learn about things your average mechanical engineer wouldn't know about. although, alot of students from other engineering departments.

we did a project which was cool. he gave us two weeks and he made us design a nanoparticle to deliver drugs to cure liver cancer. o.O

the final was really really easy if you were paying attention to lectures and did your labs and understood everything--which shouldn't be that hard.

I would say just have fun in the class and if you don't understand something ask or google.