Failures lead to investigation, examination, innovation, and redesign into improved, safer, and more efficient components and structures. In this course, we study engineering failures that have occurred across a wide range of disciplines, and examine why they happened. This includes a discussion of the fundamental engineering concepts at play (e.g. stress corrosion cracking, creep, high cycle fatigue), as well as the path by which these factors caused the disaster under study, and the ethics involved in each case.
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UnitsLetter
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeNone
Level LimitEngineering
CollegeVery not math heavy engineering class - no exams and few homework sets. Almost exclusively graded on papers and projects. Very fun and infomative; teaches you to consider all sorts of different things you might not have thought about before.
Talks fast, doesnt use visuals much and doesnt explain visuals well. Smart teacher.
Professor Daly is friendly and approachable. Her lectures are easy to follow and while some concepts are challenging, she does a good job going through examples in class. Her exams are tough but fair. If you attend all lectures and do homework sets you should be fine.
Easily the worst professor I've had. I love statics as a topic, but I hated this class. All homework must be submitted in person, on paper to a mail box. All grades are handed back in person, and you must calculate your grade yourself. Lectures were funny, but not actually helpful in understanding the material at all. The TAs saved me this class.
Professor Daly isn't bad. But when the class was doing well, she decided to significantly up the difficulty of later quizzes to "test the limits of our abilities." It almost was like we were punished for doing too well. I feel like she made the material much harder than it should actually be. But the format of the online course was very forgiving.
Her class was structured really well for an online format. No midtern or final only 6 quizzes of which she drops one of them. The rest of your grade is based on homework. She can explain topics really well and is an overall good person. Her quizzes can be pretty tricky tho, you basically have to know what youre doing or else you wont finish in time