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1OHIO Mechanical Engineering, Sr Design, Fun Feedback


Most Fun during time at OHIO U

• No time for fun

• Classified

• Enjoying the beautiful campus

• Anytime not spent in a classroom / work environment



• Hanging out with friends and fishing

• Spending time and making good memories with friends

• Friday and Saturdays cooking out at Strouds with the guys

• Meeting new people and learning new things

• Meeting new people in the dorms and making new friends

• Moving out of the dorms forever



• Playing with Marching 110

• Going skydiving

• Besides soccer?

• Homecoming is always a blast, as is tailgating and mountain biking is really fun too.

• Intramural broomball

• Playing in my band

• I had a lot of fun for the 2 years I was on the crew team


Most Fun during time at OHIO U• Going to the OU vs. OSU football game senior

year…and everything that happened after it

• Eating Big Mamma’s

• Senior year, really got to know people• Involvement and friendships gained from

joining my fraternity

• The entire last 3 quarters, coming together for a large final project with a team

• Building our SrD prototype

• ME100

• Building a robot in Mechatronics is very fun.



• Any Friday or Saturday and the occasional Thursday (and Sunday) [4]

• Spring Break, parties

• I had a pretty out of control party on my 20th birthday

• Drinking with friends

• Partying with my friends

• !!BARS!!!...Quality time spent at the local bar establishments



• All the spring weekend fests– Palmerfest

– 6-Fest

– Five Fest

• Halloween [2]

• Not even a reasonable question…I would need eight years to explain what I’ve done in four.


Hardest Class

• ME388 (Sr Lab, Dr. Bayless, Dr Kraft - so much writing) [8]

• ME224 (Dynamics, Dr Pasic) [8]• CE220 (Statics, Dr. Kim, Dr Chang – isn’t

that beautiful) [8]• EE313/EE314 [5]• MATH 340 (Differential Equations) [4]• CE340 (Fluid Mechanics – third times a

charm) [3]• CHEM courses [3]


Hardest Class

• MATH 263B, CALC III, MATH 344 [2]

• Physics Series (Physics III) [2]• ET181 [2]• CE222 (Strengths) [3]• ME304 Machine Design [2]• ME462 Manufacturing Processes

• Philosophy 101• Nutrition 128• Any history class


Identify one positive thing about the UG ME program that should be maintained in the future

• There is a really good community among everyone here – students and faculty

• Good faculty interaction.• Relationships between professors and students.• The open-door policy [2] – it really helps to be able to talk to the profs

anytime we need help.• Caring faculty, the professors that know everyone’s names and

always say hi • Teachers are very knowledgeable and prepare you very well• Most teachers make themselves easily available to help students. This makes

the whole learning experience better and less frustrating• Most of the staff truly cares about their students and helping them learn.

They put a lot of effort into each class and give them extra opportunities to ask questions and learn further.

• The staff made everything very enjoyable• The interaction between professors and students. Some of the profs work

hard to learn people’s names and treat us like professionals.• Dr. Bayless should continue to teach the ME388 class. He expects much from

students but we learn a lot.• Dr Iz

- is awesome- classes are full of good stuff – Thermo – power plant tour


Identify one positive thing about the UG ME program that should be maintained in the future cont…..

• Senior Design – NISH competition.– A good transition for students from academia to the real world– …. experience, going all steps like the real world– The idea where it focus’s on project management is excellent.– Keep it laid back, it helps in keeping good attitudes.– Keep customer contact – The course sequencing seemed to work very well as far as

building material on top of the previous class work

– Projects with disabled workers focus– Senior Design! Best part of ME program– The course sequence is appropriate– Keep the experience centered around assisting specific

customers.– Great shop– By the end of senior design, I was pretty sick of listening to

presentations


Your most rewarding experience at OU• Joining Theta Tau• Relay for Life• Graduating Magna Cum Laude• Making the Dean’s List [4]• Playing with Marching 110• Playing on-stage at Halloween• Study abroad in Ecuador really changed the

way I see the world (in a good way)• Discovering that if I don’t like something in my

life then I can change it.• Getting involved• Working my way up the leadership ladder in

my fraternity to eventually become president• All of it….


Your most rewarding experience at OU cont…• Retaking Dynamics with Dr. Pasic to get an A and

actually understand the material• Being successful in all my classes [2]

• Co-op [2]

• Being a part of the Robe Leadership seminar

• Getting to know classmates and professors

• The friendships made

• The degree [2]

• When I realized I would graduate on time

• Upcoming graduation


Your most rewarding experience at OU cont…

• Senior Design……- We actually made a difference in the

real world.

- Delivering our project and…..- seeing how much it helped the workers- seeing our customers using our device- seeing his reaction- knowing our project is really being used and appreciated by someone who needed it


Your most rewarding experience at OU cont…

Senior Design……

- Experience was certainly very rewarding ……Spearheading the creation of a baja team

was as well

- The first time we put on our vertical travel assembly and it actually worked

- I became a lot closer to my engineering friends and gained a lot of hands-on experience.

- Working on different projects with other students in and out of class

• Finishing our prototype, finishing the FE• Finishing the Sr. Design project• Senior Design Demo Day• Winning NISH competition [7]• Receiving the Honorable Mention Award for the NISH

Competition


Other things you will remember about OU• Friends [11] and meeting new people [3]• Parties [7]

– Bars & Court Street– The ladies– The girls and the drunks, and the drunk girls– The atmosphere, the social life– Craziness on the weekends– Spring fests and antics only in Athens– The fights– Fridays

• Campus [3] and Athens area- Walking around in early fall & spring- Early morning runs - the 2009 ice storm - basketball games - riding

out to Strouds Run, symphony concerts - Unpredictable weather - This is my home now, not where I’m from, I’m now from Athens.


Other things you will remember about OU cont… Stocker

-long late nights and weekends [5]

Co-ops [3]

All the professors who showed real interest in my future as an engineer.

The caliber of leadership in the ME department, both in the students and the professors. I constantly get comments about how invested in our careers the ME department is.

Fun, but educational learning environment (as for most of the professors) Chang’s enthusiasm for fluids (which helped me quite a bit in learning the material)

Professors, students, and the hard times I had with classes and the one point where I thought I’d never make it through the program


Other things you will remember about OU cont…

• Turning in my last physics lab, and Robe Leadership seminar.

• Why the h%#$ is the library so HOTT!!?• Homework and laziness• Time I should have used for school that I didn’t, and all

the fun that came from that• Quick trips to Oak Room during ChE lab• FEA• Lasagna dinners at Dr. Bob’s with ASME• Dr. Halliday’s witty real life experience• Stirling cooled root beer• Going to DC because we won the NISH comp.• Flight team• Scuba diving class


What do you wish you had known as a freshman?Classes and scheduling• Schedule courses better i.e. take 16-18 hrs as freshman not senior • Generally if you go to class you do better.• When to schedule classes to avoid ridiculously hard quarters. • Don’t take so many classes your last quarter • Take Chem152 early so your not stuck in it as a senior • Some classes were only offered certain quarters, more about the

co-op program, and that business minor classes have counted for some tier I, II classes

• Don’t take all of the easy electives in the first two years• Get the hard classes out of the way as soon as possible• I should have declared a major right away as a freshmen• How much work was ahead of me, how hard it would be and how

frustrating college can be.• Don’t let engineering stifle your creativity. • You have more time a day than you think. • Hoping classes will be removed from the curriculum before you

graduate is not sound policy.


What do you wish you had known as a freshman cont..

Classes and scheduling cont….• I wish I knew how to study the correct way • School work gets easier • Fun is as important as learning, you won’t get through it without both• More about the different types of engineering, (civil probably more for

me) • Statics, dynamics, differential eqns., vibrations, etc.• College is 1 part hard work and 1 part fun. If you don’t have the right

balance it is horrible.• A good grasp of MatLab [2] and all of the benefits of Stocker’s

computer labs.• Even if people think a professor or class is hard, it might not be hard

for you as an individual. Do not start the class with a bias opinion.• Don’t worry too much about grades • That I wasn’t gonna get a job cause the economy sucks• Time management skills• Co-op…Co-op…Co-op [3] – Stretches college to 5 years and a less

packed last year• The last quarter hours exception. • That classes hardly apply to what you’ll end up doing in a job.


What do you wish you had known as a freshman cont..

Athens area- All the different art venues, the different parks in Athens. - That Athens is a much more interesting place than just going out to the bars- Peking Express Chinese food- Where Stroud’s Run is- Do not live at Riverpark- Free meals on Monday and Wednesday beside the Oasis

Words of Wisdom• That a good time can come in any form around any corner.• Take time to relax• Don’t get video games, you get more done in life• Don’t take the dining hall for granted• How fast time would fly• Enjoy everything and not stress the little things• Making friends is really easy when you have an open mind• Quit freaking out! It’s really not that bad• It gets better• How to use software and alarm clocks etc…• Where to live, which teachers to take• College flies by… Enjoy your everyday of college.. Get a fake ID as soon as

possible


Advice for next year’s SrD class cont…• Make a jig out of plastic that helps some sort of assembly process and

you stand a good chance at winning the NISH competition.• If the beginning of project work goes smoothly in the fall, do not slack up

and think it will be easy sailing the rest of the way.• Don’t waste time, it will come back to bite you, but take time to enjoy• Don’t pick an “easy” project because by the end of the year you may be

really bored with it• Don’t put everything off until spring quarter

- Try not to stress - Just take it step-by-step and you’ll get there, even when others are skeptical.

- Don’t worry, it’s not worth it.

- Share work and be friendly. It works out fine. • Spend the schools money• Go to grad school cause the job markets not getting any better• Good luck punks, it’s never easy to follow up a championship• Wear condoms all the time• Take a deep breath, it seems overbearing but you will get through it


“Lessons learned” at OU • Get your Dr. Bob homework done early

- Don’t procrastinate [2] on Dr. Bob’s HW• Never call a professor with a doctorates degree by just

his/her name • The professor makes all the difference when registering

for classes.• Always do you HW and always go to class and you should

rarely have to study• Don’t wait till the last minute to do homework, otherwise

you have to worry about doing it all day• College is the best 4 years of your life. Time

Management!• Don’t always listen to your advisor [2] as far as scheduling

goes. Learn how to read your DARS! • Don’t let a bad professor be lazy, make him teach, ask

questions and learn like your supposed to.• Don’t trust EE grad students when they run EE305 in

summer –they say you did lab correct, but different story when grading.


“Lessons learned” at OU cont…

• Turn off the TV, TV = unhappiness• Athens cops suck• Don’t fall asleep with your shoes on.• Get heavily involved in a couple

extracurricular, but not too many.• You should leave Palmer if a “USA” chant is

breaking out. – Pepper spray does not taste like peppersPepper spray does not taste like peppers

• Just because The Pub opens at 10:30 am, you don’t always have to go

• Don’t use fake ID’s at the Pub• Don’t eat Domino’s by the slice. • Find out which math teachers are hard.• Alcohol + OU food = gaining weight


“Lessons learned” at OU cont…• ”Live life by the minute” “Don’t stress”• Stress is a great motivator, but there are better ways.• Take advantage of the time you got, it goes by fast.• If you do what you want you will always go in the right direction.• I have interests well beyond engineering• Team work is important – focus on building solid, encouraging relationships with team

members. • Suns out, guns out• How to procrastinate• Enjoy all of it, it goes by so fast• Do work ahead of the due date• Enjoy the “free” time you have• Enjoy life as much as possible even if there’s too much going on• Larger is not always better. (Larger is the technology of yesterday)• Focus on priorities• Make sure to experience as much new/fun things as you possibly can, but only after

your work is done• It is important to make friends in your classes so you can work on homework and study

together• Know how to balance fun and school• Don’t take labs during spring quarter.


“Parting shots” – fun (and anonymous)

statements • All right, lets do this Leeroy Jenkins• Dr. Iz…..

- thanks for the cookies.- Dr. Iz never usually talks in SrD, whats he doing?-“Repent in sackeloth and ashes!!” – Dr. Iz

• Please place picture of Bob on the Beach here • Where does Dr. Bob get his weed?

• Don’t ever expect to get anything from Dr. Halliday on time.

• I had heard through the grapevine that Dr. Kremer holds the NCAA Division 3 record for tackles in a season….is this true?

• Is Nikki Blackmore the top ME student in the whole state?

• ”I caught a Lab-Admin…Hee..Hee!”


“Parting shots” – fun (and anonymous) statements

• This is only the end so a new beginning can happen.• Get all of your homework done then go get a drink.• “Love your enemies”• Woooo!!!!• Tequila shots give bad hangovers• Wish we could use the new building• Work hard and play harder!• You only live once• Statics should be taught as an ME course (had to learn

most of the static principles in Dynamics)• Signing your name on take-home thermo quizzes does

not mean you worked by yourself


“Parting shots” – fun (and anonymous) statements cont…• Go Reds!!

• There’s one!!• Don’t graduate, celebrate• Don’t take life too seriously – you’ll never get out alive• Party hard and live it up – you only live once• I’m glad I chose to be an engineer; I’m thrilled to have a job!! WOO!!• ”Live life, you only live once”• Shout out to Stephanie Walker, nicest person in the building. • No regrets• OU is a great school, very well respected. I am successful and proud

that I went here.• Everything was great and I will continue to recommend this program and

university to everyone.• Put a bar in Stocker Center – fully stocked – for post exam purposes• Will I really graduate, or is the curriculum still changing???• Adios!

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