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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kid is a freshman in Chemical Engineering. Told by admin to be happy with a C in engineering courses. Says it is hard. Seems happy.[/quote]

If you don't mind, I am a humanities major with engineering-type kids. From what I hear, a lot of courses are not only difficult but are graded differently than humanities.

For example, a lot of students will have 40s, 50s, 60s as their grade during the term and then at the end a curve is applied. Has anyone else heard of this, and if so, what is the point? I understand the weed out courses, but shouldn't the goal be to teach students in a way that they master concepts instead of survive them?

Thanks for helping someone with no engineering experience.[/quote]

The best explanation I got for this when I was an engineering undergrad in the 90s was “If you want to measure something properly, the measuring tape needs to be longer than the thing you’re measuring.”

I will say that the one class where I routinely rocked the tests and the novel application questions was a subject I really understood.

Also, FWIW, I, and most of my female classmates in both my BS and MS programs, did not end up working in engineering. [/quote]

I'm sorry to hear that.  I work in the auto industry in Michigan.  Women engineers do pretty well at the large auto companies.  Many have moms who were highly educated, sometimes groundbreaking engineers.  Implicit bias exists but is fading somewhat due to generational change.  In the engineering meetings I'm in, it seems about 70/30 male female, with women in leadership and decisionmaking roles.[/quote]

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