Soils or Environmental. I can take either. Which should I take?

5/7/2009 10:47:34 AM

i'll tutor you in 342 for a fee... if you decide to take it.

5/7/2009 11:39:50 AM

What do you want to do when you graduate? The subject matter is very different, but I wouldn't say either class is way harder than the other, Soils may be a little more work (especially with the lab). I would say take the class that will be most relevant to you once you graduate.

5/7/2009 2:28:57 PM

i'd say soils just for the lab.

(you still have to take hydraulics and structures lab if you don't take soils, right? i know they recently shifted some stuff around.)

5/7/2009 2:41:43 PM

342 is more interesting and the lab is fun/easy grade. however, it can be a very tough class. It's calculation based.

373 is all class/bookwork, however there is a lot of good information in the class. It's almost all conceptual/reading/etc with very few calculations. this is also made into a very tough class.

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5/7/2009 2:43:45 PM

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"It's almost all conceptual/reading/etc with very few calculations."

having just finished taking that course, i can say in confidence that this is very incorrect.

5/7/2009 2:44:50 PM

who did you have it with? it has changed in the last year then. when I say calculation based, I mean that's the basis of the whole class, all the topics, etc, and does not include those easy, BS calculations like a teacher gives you a simple equation and you plug and chug basically

when I took it, maybe 20% of the material was calculation based. the rest were on air/water quality concepts with a few simple equations here and there

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5/7/2009 2:45:38 PM

i had it w/ knappe. the tests were probably 10% concept and 90% problems. they weren't super difficult (especially if you remember chemistry), but they weren't any more plug and chug than soils was when i took it.

5/7/2009 3:04:18 PM

wow. completely different than ducoste.

I guess this class really depends on the instructor then.

5/7/2009 3:27:38 PM

Yea, I had it with knappe, and there was quite a bit of calculations, involving a lot of chemistry.

5/7/2009 8:21:19 PM

I'd say CE 342. I took it with Parish....definitely not a cake walk, but learned alot that I use at my job now. Pretty fun lab too, as far as labs go.

FE exam had a good number of Environmental questions, but I was able to figure them out fairly easily without ever taking the class. Even if you're leaning toward an environmental field both of these classes would probably be beneficial.

6/4/2009 3:53:49 PM

also had 373 w/ knappe...best part about that class is that its over

6/13/2009 11:59:03 PM