The Winter INSPIRE freshmen seminar series is an integrated academic support and peer mentoring curriculum design to build community and excitement for opportunities in College of Engineering (CoE) majors. The Winter offering of this seminar will focus on a series of guest speakers (including UCSB CoE alumni and faculty, as well as local industry leaders) in fields aligned with CoE majors. Participants will learn about potential internship opportunities and career pathways within their major. Weekly meetings will include career/technical presentations by guest speakers, questions/answers periods, small group engagement, and other activities designed around the presentation topic.
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UnitsPass no pass
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeFreshmen only
Level LimitEngineering
CollegeAnother quarter, another set of classes with Chada. First quarter design is always a punch to the gut, but I did appreciate the lectures given and honestly Chada is a great professor for anything that needs to be taught and applied.
I took CS8 over the summer so it was over six weeks. You can tell that she really cares about her students but she would go on tangents and talk to us like we were third year comp sci majors instead of total beginners. I also think the difficulty between the exercises on Zybooks and her quizzes were astronomically different. She's really nice tho.
This class was manageable. The course structure was pretty easy with only 25% of your grade coming from Exams. The rest of the 75% can be earned pretty easily if you put in time and do the assignments. Lectures were long and boring with iClicker questions throughout. Final was manageable, with a sheet of notes allowed for the exam.
Very good professor.
The professor is really nice and easy to work with. All the homework and labs are on Zybooks witch which was an easy program to use. There are no midterm, just a final exam and project at the end of the quarter. The final exam is hard but the project is fun and easy and will help boost your grade.
10/10 had no midterms attendance mandatory but if you get a high final project grade itll replace your attendance grade online textbook easy to get an A great tas and office hours very helpful.