Professor
Samanya Srivastava
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2020 - Ch Engr 101C with Srivastava was difficult, but not in the way you might expect. I didn't think that the class was more conceptually difficult than, say, heat transfer or momentum transfer, but there was a huge emphasis on math. For example, you might be asked to verify a certain concentration profile, and the math can get pretty tedious as you solved for the integration constants. (I had to use the quadratic formula once to get one integration constant). And the math only becomes worse as you delve into PDEs, which you need to solve through similarity method or separation of variables. Many of us did not have a good foundation with error functions and gamma functions, so it got pretty confusing at times. However, Srivastava was pretty clear in his lectures and with his expectations for the class. I expected to get a B+ in his class because he said that 1 standard deviation above was A- and 2 standard deviations above was A. I was like there's no way I can score 20 points above average on every single exam. But it appears that he lowered the threshold because we did pretty well overall as a class.
Spring 2020 - Ch Engr 101C with Srivastava was difficult, but not in the way you might expect. I didn't think that the class was more conceptually difficult than, say, heat transfer or momentum transfer, but there was a huge emphasis on math. For example, you might be asked to verify a certain concentration profile, and the math can get pretty tedious as you solved for the integration constants. (I had to use the quadratic formula once to get one integration constant). And the math only becomes worse as you delve into PDEs, which you need to solve through similarity method or separation of variables. Many of us did not have a good foundation with error functions and gamma functions, so it got pretty confusing at times. However, Srivastava was pretty clear in his lectures and with his expectations for the class. I expected to get a B+ in his class because he said that 1 standard deviation above was A- and 2 standard deviations above was A. I was like there's no way I can score 20 points above average on every single exam. But it appears that he lowered the threshold because we did pretty well overall as a class.
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