Every week I am constantly surprised at the engineering professors lack of knowledge about computers. It seems that every class, they have either a problem with their internet, or powerpoint or other related software. I know that this may be considered a generation gap, but this stuff has been out for quite a while. The always tell us how they have been teaching this class for a while, yet seem to be unable to do so. I am not saying that it is entirely their fault. Some of the problems I have seen are legitimate software or computer problems, but occasionally it is due to a lack of knowledge of the program.

This is not my only complaint about these engineering classes. The way this class is organized is horrendous, there are many different parts all of which seem to have no clue what the other is doing. The homework is time-filling monotonous work that is entirely unnecessary. We were assigned a tutorial on new software that we were doing, then instructed to follow along on a separate "voice over". Yet these two stated basically the exact same thing word for word. It is almost as if the professors are not sure what is actually in the material they assign to us.

This is not just for 1114, but I don't even want to get started on last semesters 1024. Hopefully this is just due to it being freshman year and them not being able to teach major specific material because the majority of people have not selected one. It is not so much the material that bothers me, but rather the inadequacy and chaotic nature of how it is presented. The teachers should just sit down for a while and re-evaluate the structure of the freshman engineering class, because they are way to poorly organized.