Instructor

Prof. Rajneesh Bharadwaj

Semester

Autumn 2023-24

Course Difficulty

Moderate Ideally in 3rd or 4th year. Since the concepts of fluid dynamics (ME219) come in pretty handy. Having done, ME 346- heat transfer gives as added advantage

Time commitment needed

Just going to classes regularly should suffice

Grading Statistics

Lenient Out of a class of 70 people, 10 AAs and 16ABs were awarded.

Grading is done in relative to the highest scorer of the class.

Attendance Policy

None

Teaching Style

Since it is a core course for M.Tech students, the pace of the course was slow. The professor made sure to cover all the basic concepts and one could comfortably follow the lectures.

Feedback on Exams (Written Evaluation)

Exam type: Subjective exams. Exams were of moderate difficulty. Quizzes were mostly from slides and tested theoretical concepts and derivations. Midsem and endsem exams focused more on numerical and application-based questions.

Grading type: Lenient, class averages were nearly 50%

Exams require you to have a good understanding of the concepts. Quizzes do a good job of keeping you on track and up to date with the syllabus. Since the course content covered wasn’t a lot, exams do not demand a lot of preparation time. Being thorough with concepts and practicing sample questions provided by the professor should suffice.

Course Importance

Doing this course would be like a good revision of ME 219, if you want to brush up the concepts. But I don’t think there is a lot of new things to learn as it’s an introductory core course for M.Tech students.

Written By

Shreedhar Malpani