Professor
Nikolas Nordendale
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Most Helpful Review
Winter 2024 - Professor Nordendale is one of the best instructors I've had the pleasure of taking a course from. He lectures well, with clear and organized slides. He gives plenty of examples and explains concepts thoroughly and concisely. His exams were extremely fair with no curveballs, and he prepared us well by giving plenty of review examples. Not that this is necessary, but I highly recommend watching Jeff Hanson's Statics and Mechanics videos to supplement your learning on the side. The videos go hand in hand with class content and helped reinforce topics for me. Great class taught by a great professor!
Winter 2024 - Professor Nordendale is one of the best instructors I've had the pleasure of taking a course from. He lectures well, with clear and organized slides. He gives plenty of examples and explains concepts thoroughly and concisely. His exams were extremely fair with no curveballs, and he prepared us well by giving plenty of review examples. Not that this is necessary, but I highly recommend watching Jeff Hanson's Statics and Mechanics videos to supplement your learning on the side. The videos go hand in hand with class content and helped reinforce topics for me. Great class taught by a great professor!
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Fall 2023 - Fantastic professor. I rarely write Bruinwalk reviews, and usually only do so for professors I think people should avoid. However, Niko Nordendale is excellent. His lectures are very concise and simple, breaking down complex topics in ways that even the most below average engineer may understand. Additionally, he is very articulate and speaks slowly enough to digest everything that he is saying. As for the homework, there were between 2-5 problems a week. Usually this was broken down by difficulty, with 2 being easy, 2 moderate, and 1 hard problem. They were very fair and most of the information needed to solve the problem could be found from the class notes or the book. If this isn't good enough for you yet, the exams were very reflective of the class material. The best part was the class before the exams where Niko would do a set number of practice problems, the same number of problems that just happened to be on the test. Without explicitly reusing the questions, if you understand the formulas for each of the problems (this class is more formulas heavy than almost any other course) then you were basically guaranteed a B or above on all of the exams. Could not recommend him more. Would take again.
Fall 2023 - Fantastic professor. I rarely write Bruinwalk reviews, and usually only do so for professors I think people should avoid. However, Niko Nordendale is excellent. His lectures are very concise and simple, breaking down complex topics in ways that even the most below average engineer may understand. Additionally, he is very articulate and speaks slowly enough to digest everything that he is saying. As for the homework, there were between 2-5 problems a week. Usually this was broken down by difficulty, with 2 being easy, 2 moderate, and 1 hard problem. They were very fair and most of the information needed to solve the problem could be found from the class notes or the book. If this isn't good enough for you yet, the exams were very reflective of the class material. The best part was the class before the exams where Niko would do a set number of practice problems, the same number of problems that just happened to be on the test. Without explicitly reusing the questions, if you understand the formulas for each of the problems (this class is more formulas heavy than almost any other course) then you were basically guaranteed a B or above on all of the exams. Could not recommend him more. Would take again.
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