After this long while, it is time to do a module review for my Year 1 Semester 2. This is all based on what I remember and it might not be as very accurate but I guess I hope it will give you a glimpse on what it is like.
GET1021 - Critical Thinking and Writing
Difficulty: 8/10 (Quite tough)
I had a great difficulty in understanding what was taught and what to look out for throughout the whole semester until before finals. I guess you will have to understand what was taught and what and how to evaluate articles and so on. Without that understanding and trying blindly will be quite detrimental. Do try to ask for clarification or ask your tutor to help before it is too late.
Tutorials:
The lessons were quite interesting, cannot remember what else happened. My tutor was good just that I thought I understood but I didn't know exactly what was required of me.
Exam
After not writing for a long time, the need to write fast and so on is terrifying and painful. Do train your fingers to get used to it before the examination. Also, the examination format will be similar to your assignment 1 where it is an individual work.
Tutorials:
The lessons were quite interesting, cannot remember what else happened. My tutor was good just that I thought I understood but I didn't know exactly what was required of me.
Exam
After not writing for a long time, the need to write fast and so on is terrifying and painful. Do train your fingers to get used to it before the examination. Also, the examination format will be similar to your assignment 1 where it is an individual work.
Module Breakdown
Assignment 1: 30% (Individual Work)
Assignment 2: 30% (Group Work)
Final Examination: 30%
I forgot about this part
EG1108 - Electrical Engineering
Difficulty: 3/10 (subjective)
From what I heard from my friends, this module was very difficult, but to me it was relatively easy. I have no idea why also but I felt that part 2 of the module seemed more manageable and had the time to spend more time on just the first part. From what I heard, this module seemed to combine 2 electrical engineering module but is more introductory hence less in-depth.
Lectures
It was hard to understand the first part as we were not exposed to much of it before. However, for part 2 of the lectures, I think many people were grumbling that they were unable to comprehend the accent of the professor but I thought it was ok. Hence, it is subjective.
Tutorials
I forgot
Labs
As this was an introductory module, the labs were more manageable. However, I was quite lost during both labs and I will like to thank those who helped me with the lab session. It was quite confusing and if the results do not make sense, it is quite intimidating. Do make friends with the people in the lab session so that you can help one another.
Exam
The paper was surprisingly manageable for me but some people felt that it was difficult.
Lectures
It was hard to understand the first part as we were not exposed to much of it before. However, for part 2 of the lectures, I think many people were grumbling that they were unable to comprehend the accent of the professor but I thought it was ok. Hence, it is subjective.
Tutorials
I forgot
Labs
As this was an introductory module, the labs were more manageable. However, I was quite lost during both labs and I will like to thank those who helped me with the lab session. It was quite confusing and if the results do not make sense, it is quite intimidating. Do make friends with the people in the lab session so that you can help one another.
Exam
The paper was surprisingly manageable for me but some people felt that it was difficult.
Module Breakdown
Labs: 20%
Final Examination: 80%
EG1310 - Exploratory Satellite Design
Difficulty: 10/10 (Large amount of time to be spent here)
For this module, you need to be prepared to work with people that you do not know to design a balloon satellite. In order to do so, you will be taught some basics and you can use your seniors' work as reference as to how to proceed. To do a decent job, you have to put in a lot of hours outside of your module in so as to design and test your satellite. Many challenges will surface but if you put in effort and not be afraid of asking for help, you should be able to do okay.
Lectures
The lectures were mainly introductory to what is out there and a lot of things were not going to be tested so we were able to use google to know more about those. However, I am not sure about the electrical side as I did not attend their lectures.
Lab sessions
This is the time where you spend time trying to assemble your satellite together and debug. Time is short. Make full use of it and most likely you will have to put in time outside of these sessions
FLY
Watching the balloon satellite fly up high and slowly releasing it and controlling the balloon was fun as it is hard to get such opportunities outside. Even though we do not get the chance to let our satellite fly up to outer space, seeing how strong the wind was and the shaking of our satellite, it was quite scary also.
Lectures
The lectures were mainly introductory to what is out there and a lot of things were not going to be tested so we were able to use google to know more about those. However, I am not sure about the electrical side as I did not attend their lectures.
Lab sessions
This is the time where you spend time trying to assemble your satellite together and debug. Time is short. Make full use of it and most likely you will have to put in time outside of these sessions
FLY
Watching the balloon satellite fly up high and slowly releasing it and controlling the balloon was fun as it is hard to get such opportunities outside. Even though we do not get the chance to let our satellite fly up to outer space, seeing how strong the wind was and the shaking of our satellite, it was quite scary also.
Module Breakdown
I forgot, there are some assignments to do, poster, report and presentation.
ME2103 - Engineering Visualisation and Modelling
Difficulty: 5/10
This module is manageable where it teaches us some basic skills on how to read engineering drawings, modelling using Solidworks and so on. To me, the hard part is not the practical sessions where your finally computer aided design (CAD) assembly is graded. The hard part is the examination where they grade you based on the CAD model that you come up with. Given a limited amount of time and a 2D drawing with some parts, you will have to CAD those out and assemble them. I died badly for this as I was unable to visualise the 2D view and hence not being able to CAD out and assemble. In addition, the open book 50 questions online quiz with a time duration of 25 minutes killed me off. I employed the wrong strategy of checking my answers just to be sure that I was right. That kiasuness made me complete barely more than half of the questions while others just rushed through the questions, randomly selecting if they were unsure. Needless to say, I did not do very well for this module but overall I think that it is manageable.
Lectures
The lectures were quite interesting and relevant until the part where it was not tested and everyone disappeared. I did not disappear but I didn't pay much attention to it too as, I was not at that stage where I was able to use SolidWorks well enough.
Tutorial
You can prepare for the tutorial sessions at home by doing the tutorials at home first and going back to the lab and do it. Doing so will reduce your CADDING time.
Exam
50 questions 25 minutes. You can only do and not think and flip your notes for answers. You do not have time. Trust me. I flipped and I died.
Lectures
The lectures were quite interesting and relevant until the part where it was not tested and everyone disappeared. I did not disappear but I didn't pay much attention to it too as, I was not at that stage where I was able to use SolidWorks well enough.
Tutorial
You can prepare for the tutorial sessions at home by doing the tutorials at home first and going back to the lab and do it. Doing so will reduce your CADDING time.
Exam
50 questions 25 minutes. You can only do and not think and flip your notes for answers. You do not have time. Trust me. I flipped and I died.
Module Breakdown
I forgot also, I only remember the lab sessions are graded based on your CAD drawings. There is a online quiz to do in the lecture theatre with 50 questions and only 25 minutes. Lastly, the practical examination is graded based on your CAD assembly.
MA1506 - Mathematics 2
Difficulty: 8/10 (sometimes I wonder why I take engineering when my math is bad)
This module is easier than MA1505 - Mathematics 1 but it is still difficult. I forgot what was taught already and I cannot comment on it. This shows how much I have learnt and remembered.
Lecture
In year 1, I was still obediently going for most of the lectures, however I was too tired at this point and after the mid terms, I started to skip lectures and watch the webcast nearer to exams. As I was sleeping through at least half of the lectures, there was no point in going for the lectures anyway.
Tutorial
I didn't go for any as I didn't know how to do the tutorials and it was always too difficult to understand during the tutorials anyway. So I did not do and go.
Exam
I can't really remember this part but I only remember I left less blanks than MA1505 and that should the reason why my grade was higher.
Module Breakdown
Mid Term Examination: 20%
Final Examination: 80%
ES2331 - Communicating Engineering
Difficulty: 10/10
If you can speak well, this module will be easy for you as they grade you based on class participation, and etc. As the name suggest, the motive of the module is to encourage engineering students to speak up more and be confident in presenting ideas. Since, I am the stereotypical engineering student which cannot speak and write very fluently, I died for this module. The only good thing of this module is that there is no bell curve so the whole class should help each other out to all do well (I didn't know of this while doing this module). Also, you have to be well prepared for your panel discussion and presentation so that the examiners will not be able to give you a question that you cannot answer. That is what happened to me and you can guess what happened. Overall, it is a good module to force me to present to a large crowd rather than just talking to a small group of people.
Tutorial
Overall some of the things that were taught, I cannot remember but I know that due to the lack of sleep, I could not think in class and hence I did not contribute much to the class participation. However, if you can think, please do try to answer and ask questions during class to get marks. I am not sure how they grade but still try.
Panel Discussion
BE PREPARED FOR ALL THE TOPICS. I was not prepared for the topic that was given and could not answer 1 of the question. During the question and answer, I got cut off by a teammate and didn't get a chance to answer much. Also, try to speak for all the issues raised as sometimes people will speak very long and you need someone to try and reduce that time and try to cover all issues so that everyone will get higher marks.
Presentation
You are supposed to present with a engineering product or something that is technical where normal layman will not be able to present. BE PREPARED FOR THE POTENTIAL QUESTIONS. I could not answer 1 of the question posed by the examiner and I think I suffered. I was not prepared with some of the statistics and did not have the skills to smoke well. Also, a word of advice, do not make your presentation too technical as the examiners are not with engineering backgrounds and at the end of the day, they are still grading you. If they do not understand, you die. Simple as that.
Module Breakdown
Panel Discussion
Presentation
Class Participation
Reflections
I realise my module reviews are not particularly useful but I guess it helps to give you a general sense of the difficulty of the modules and go in prepared.
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