Reviews for Joonil Se
Average Rating:| pat Course: BIOE453 Grade Expected: B June 18, 2011, 9:57 am | Have to agree with the other review on here. In addition, the class is generally taught with a "survey class" approach. Biomaterials is a multi-trillion dollar industry encompassing a seemingly infinite array of material. Therefore, it is rather pointless to try and compartmentalize what is essentially "on a need to know basis" type material into one class ... (in the real world, "bio materials" is something you learn about when you need it in your work.) As such the class generally consisted of Seog moaning about mundane chemical properties of obscure particulars such as sea cucumber epidermis, and spider silk. The tests really did suck hard and fast, as they covered pretty much every single little detail on his slides in some way, with very open ended questions that leave you thinking you did relatively well - when in reality you got pretty boned. Homework required a tightly fitted bullshit cap, so the more information you can find that is moderately accurate and relevant to the problem, the better off you will be. On the upside, I waited until the night before the tests to study, rarely went to lecture (went to sleep if I did), and came out with a B doing virtually nothing. If you want the A, it should be fairly easy with some work. The lab.....oh man where do I fu***** begin with this. The lab material itself I found to be really enjoyable and interesting, it was the lab reports themselves that made me cry every other week in a dark corner. Essentially, I have no advice on how to do well on the lab reports....he basically pulls what he is looking for out of a magic hat. The format is that you perform the lab one week, and then meet to discuss the results along with turning in the lab report the following week. Essentially the discussion is an 8 am roast of everyone in the class. He basically calls on random people to write their results to various questions in the lab report on the board, and then proceeds to beat them up mercilessly over it - questioning every word that said student responds with. It's a pretty frightening experience for so early in the morning. It was nice learning that my 80 hours worth of work I put into a lab report was "not what he wanted", when I answered all of the questions in the lab report, and strictly followed his outline. Basically, try and be as abstract outside of the obvious questions in the lab write-up, and over-analyze the meaning of every single result in your lab report and you will do OK.....I ended up getting a C on most labs. All in all, just another filler BIOE class. |
| zhangsta Course: BIOE453 Grade Expected: A May 25, 2011, 2:39 pm | Dr. Seog is a very nice guy and is pretty responsive to student concerns, but isn't such a great lecturer because he lectures from slides. He doesn't assign as much work as other professors do; he only assigned three homeworks this semester. However, the work you have to put into anything he assigns is ridiculous. For the homeworks, unless its a math-based question, you have to put down a lot of details to get most of the points. You could easily end up writing a paragraph or two to answer one question. Some questions will inevitably lead you to look up papers, but generally, he's looking for answers that are within the context of material that he goes over in lecture. The exams are pretty bad. You have to memorize just about everything from lecture to do well on them because he almost always asks you to design something on the exam which ends up being worth around 20% of the exam. The lab, which is BIOE454, itself isn't bad as the experiments are really simple and you pretty much spend most f your time sitting around waiting for results. The lab reports are another story. Don't start the lab report the night before its due because you will end up spending the entire night on it. You have to be really thorough in your lab reports and follow his rubric closely to do well on them. For the conclusions on his reports, there is no definitive explanation for your results (assuming you got good results) so when you explain them, make sure that they sound reasonable and that you can put them within the context of the material that he covers in the lecture. |