Peer Legacy for ENGR131-132: "Transforming ideas to innovation I and II "
All students who have previously taken ENGR131 and/or ENGR132 are welcome to use this page to leave comments/give advice for future students. Please note that these courses used to have other numbers. If you took them when they had a different number, please specify that number.
- When I took this course, it was called ENGR195 and I hated it. It was such a time consuming course. It contains two parts: project design and MATLAB learning, in other words, meeting and coding. But you should know that every little effort pays back and I am glad I treated this course seriously. The ability of project design and ability of using MATLAB for data analysis are two basic skills for an engineer. So work hard on this course, it will make you life as an engineer a lot more easier. ---Yang Zhu
- I am not sure what course number it was since I transfer from another campuse of Purdue. But I had classes which taught MATLAB, and designa a robot. I think matlab part is important and useful because we use matlab a lot in the future. But I don't see the point to design a robot.It seems I don't learn anything useful during the design class. I felt I wasted a lot of time on it. Even though it was kinda fun, I don't think it worth my time.;---Tianhe Liu
- Back when I took the first year engineering course, it was called ENGR126 I think. It was a semester long course that had 2 or 3 MEA projects and a lot of excel and matlab assignments. In EE courses that I took, excel was never used, but I believe it is heavily used for data organization in the industry. The most important things to learn in the FYE course are matlab and learning how to justify your work. When I took the course, I didn't take MEAs seriously. But if you get in projects and/or research later, justifying why you do something gets critical, like something you would do in MEAs. Learning matlab thoroughly is also critical as it will be heavily used in EE courses. --- Minhoo Kim
- I took this class in Fall 2008 and went by the number ENGR 126. This class introduced us to basic engineering concepts, engineering design, team work, design considerations in sustainability, ethics,etc. This class had a lab, which introduced the use of engineering software MATLAB and EXCEL. There were also several model eliciting activities which incorporated reports and team work. This class is supposed to be a foundational course in engineering for freshmen. However I found this course of very little actual value in my purdue academic career. Since we did not use Matlab extensively till entering junior year of ECE, all the concepts learnt were blurry in my mind and I ended up relearning a lot of it. Also the applications of the assignments suited more towards aero and mechanical engineering disciplines and it did not have any electrical engineering concepts, which made it very uninteresting for me as a freshmen. To get the most out of this class, remember the team activities are really pointless, and the take away lies in programming learnt in Matlab and Excel. So pay more attention towards the later, even though the course stresses more on the prior. --- Anushree Phanse
- When taking this class in Fall 2008, it was called ENGR 126. This class taught me basic stuff about Matlab and Excel. Overall, I consider this class as being very important for FYE students. As an engineer, you will be using Matlab a lot. Without a proper knowledge about Matlab you will suffer a lot as an Engineer. As an EE major, I benefited a lot from this class. I used the knowledge from this class in most of my projects. Also, this course taught me how to write a paper in a professional manner. It helps you work with teammates and produce one result as a team. This skill is highly necessary. If you would like to succeed as an engineer, I highly recommend you know what is going on in this class. One minor improvement that can be done to this class is to focus MORE on Matlab. I hope that students should be taught more about Matlab and maybe C if possible. After all, this was a great class for me. --- JaeSung Youn
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