GET1048 Science: From Thinking to Narratives [4MC]Taken in AY18/19 Sem 2 Lecturer: Dr Lam Siew Hong Lecturer clarity: Clear and understandable. Visibly enthusiastic. Class size: 48 Timeload: 2x 2hr lec weekly Webcast: Lectures - Yes NUSMODS Learnt about thinking, quite a lot of toolkits from this one. Lectures are all in the first half of the sem (2nd half is group presentations). And within the lectures, the 1st half is half philosophical half scientific. For the project work, we select any topic related to our assigned theme (mine was Future Science, right up my alley) and collab-write a 4000 word sci-fi novel. Quite the excitement. :D Meshing 4 authors' work into one continuous flowing story might be hard, but let's hope my team can prove me wrong. :) I scripted out the overall macro-plot for my group already, as long as they don't deviate too much from the macro-plot it should be alright. Assessment:
Expected Grade: A Achieved Grade: B+ GEH1057 Materials: The Enabling Substance of Civilization [4MC]Taken in AY18/19 Sem 2
Lecturer: Prof Chiu Cheng Hsin, Prof Daniel John Blackwood, Prof Benjamin Tee Lecturer clarity: Somewhat clear, with some words hard to decipher Class size: 73 Timeload: 2x 2hr tut weekly Webcast: Tutorials - No NUSMODS What's this? An MSE undergrad taking a MSE GEM open to all faculties? lol yes it's time to smurf yet again! While there is quite a bit of history (from paleolithic to modern age), there is also quite a bit of technical MSE content which gives us MSE kids an advantage already. In addition, some of the things being taught in this GEH1057 like grain size, dislocation and slipping is concurrently being covered in MLE1002 in the exact same week, going hand in hand. Kill 2 birds with 1 paleolithic stone! It's open-book too (ie bring in your own notes, but as usual no copyrighted materials like textbook photocopies), so as long as your notes are good enough to jog your memory on what was taught in the lectures, you should be good :) We have to give a group presentation about anything material related. The topic I suggested to my group is SpaceX's use of stainless steel 301 in their upcoming BFR. Assessment:
Expected Grade: A Achieved Grade: A GEQ1917 Understanding and Critiquing Sustainability [2MC (per sem)] Sem 1Taken in AY18/19 Sem 2
Lecturer: Mr Lim Cheng Puay (different groups have different lecturers) Lecturer clarity: Clear and understandable Class size: 282 (RVRC exclusive) Timeload: 1x 2hr tut fortnightly Webcast: Tutorials - No NUSMODS My group went the Early-Start Date (ESD) route, ie we formed our group and ironed out a proposal in December 2018. All our details about our group project: Tinypods is on this weebly website I made! Sem 2 is where the 3 RVRC mods start to intertwine. Your group relations is handled by WR1401, your GEQ1917 project is the main scope and ES1601 handles the communications side. Kill 3 birds with 1 stone! Assessment:
Expected Grade: A Achieved Grade: B+ GER1000 Quantitative Reasoning [4MC]Taken in AY18/19 Sem 1
Lecturer: Mr Maurice Chng (different classes have different lecturers) Lecturer clarity: Clear and understandable Class size: ~400 Timeload: OTOT E-lecture weekly + 1x 2hr tut biweekly Webcast: Lectures - E-lectures, Tutorials - No NUSMODS Basically a stats class, but not so heavy on the maths. We analyse experiments and observational studies to see if there's any biases, confounding, things that will skew the results, etc. We have to give a group presentation about a topic from a given topic list. Choose the topic that is short and simple so it's easier to analyse. Luckily my group is on the ball, the group project holds significant weightage. Remember, correlation does not imply causation. Assessment:
Expected Grade: B+ Achieved Grade: A |
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