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Wow! Sounds terrible. I enjoyed my math and computer science courses ten time more than engineering ones. I know unified or interdisciplinary courses are suppos

Wow! Sounds terrible. I enjoyed my math and computer science courses ten time more than engineering ones. I know unified or interdisciplinary courses are supposed to model the real world, or prepare students for it, but if I wanted the real world, I wouldn't be in college. I much prefer courses based on individual pure disciplines.

bethling 15y ago
These are the intro Aerospace Engineering classes - if I remember right (I didn't take it, but several of my friends did) - it really is a bunch of individual classes combined for convenience/scheduling. They're not being taught everything at once - there will be some classes on how things fit together - but they tend to focus on a single subject (or two - since it's two classes you take at once) at a time.
kanak 15y ago
I think there's a misunderstanding about how the class actually works. First off, this is for students in Aero-Astro program. It's not something that all engineers take; it's simply the starting courses for the aero astro people. Second, even though the name suggests that it's some course that tries to teach you the intersection of all the topics, it's actually teaching you the union of the topics. From the course overview: "Over the course of each semester, students engage in seven disciplines of study, listed below. Each discipline is taught for a fraction of the semester, through a series of lectures. When one discipline concludes, students are quizzed and begin a new discipline." Similarly, if you look at the calendar ( http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-01-unified-engineering-i-ii-iii-iv-fall-2005-spring-2006/calendar/ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-0... ). You see that the students are essentially taking each sub-course separately. It's more for scheduling convenience and to have the students up and running with all fields in Aero-Astro than to do some grand unification of these topics.

bethling 15y ago

These are the intro Aerospace Engineering classes - if I remember right (I didn't take it, but several of my friends did) - it really is a bunch of individual classes combined for convenience/scheduling. They're not being taught everything at once - there will be some classes on how things fit together - but they tend to focus on a single subject (or two - since it's two classes you take at once) at a time.

kanak 15y ago

I think there's a misunderstanding about how the class actually works. First off, this is for students in Aero-Astro program. It's not something that all engineers take; it's simply the starting courses for the aero astro people. Second, even though the name suggests that it's some course that tries to teach you the intersection of all the topics, it's actually teaching you the union of the topics. From the course overview: "Over the course of each semester, students engage in seven disciplines of study, listed below. Each discipline is taught for a fraction of the semester, through a series of lectures. When one discipline concludes, students are quizzed and begin a new discipline." Similarly, if you look at the calendar ( http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-01-unified-engineering-i-ii-iii-iv-fall-2005-spring-2006/calendar/ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-0... ). You see that the students are essentially taking each sub-course separately. It's more for scheduling convenience and to have the students up and running with all fields in Aero-Astro than to do some grand unification of these topics.