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BEng Year 3 Semester 1

Modules taken during Year 3 Semester 1:
- AE3001/MA3700 Aircraft Structures 1 (3AU)
- AE3002 Flight Mechanics (3AU)
- AE3004/MA8005 Aircraft Electrical Systems and Devices (3AU)
- AE3005 Aerodynamics 2 (3AU)
- HW210/HW0210 Technical Communications (2AU)
- HP801/HP8001 Mind Over Stress (3AU)
- AE4079/MA4079 Final Year Project-URECA (Technopreneurship) (10AU)

Total No. of AU: 17
Overall GPA:

AE3001/MA3700 Aircraft Structures 1 (3AU)
Lecturer: Assoc Prof Lin Rong Ming
Personal Notes
Cheat Sheet
Assignment
Study Techniques: Mindmaps
Result: A

Review:
This course comprises of 1 assignment (which should be about 15% of total and can be finished in 1 day with Matlab), 1 quiz (15% of total, 5 very tricky MCQ questions), and 70% on final exam (most say hard but some say easy).
For this module, I manage to understand everything that's going on, because of difficulty level is quite low. However, the determining factor is still based on whether you manage to get the EOM correct during exam. It was one of my less focused module for the semester (the other being AE3004). All the flaws that a typical hardworking student shouldn't be doing, I have my share of them, such as:
1. Talking to friends during lectures
2. Not attempting a single tutorial (ok attempted the first one, but all my answers are incorrect, so didn't bother to do subsequent one).
3. Flunked my quiz, though I've studied for it (lost about 6% of the overall marks).

But some things that I did right:
1. Reading the lecture notes beforehand (to find out what I didn't comprehend so that I'll listen properly during lectures).
2. Reading the textbook on train (I guess it didn't really help much).
3. Copy tutorial solutions during class even though solutions will be posted.
4. Because of the long break from my 2nd last paper (AE3002) to last paper (AE3001), I've practiced the lecture problems and tutorial questions twice (the other time being before quiz).
As for the final, when I compare my answers with my friends (who's an aerogod), I find that most of my answers are incorrect. But judging from the grades that my friends obtained, and that most of them did quite well, I guess the result that I've obtained are due to moderation rather than competency. I personally feel that I'm weak at that subject as of now. But still it's not a subject you can totally ignored till the last minute.

AE3002 Flight Mechanics (3AU)
For MA2701 Flight Performance (2AU) and MA3703 Flight Dynamics (3AU)
Lecturers: Asst Prof Yongki Go/Visiting Prof Tonse Gokuldas Pai
Personal Notes
Cheat Sheet:
Front
Back
Assignment
Quiz
Study Techniques: Mindmaps + Cheat Sheet
Result: A

Review:
Ask any seniors and they would say that this is the killer module for Year 3. Why so? Casualties rate are high, and there are cases of tabao. This course consists of 1 big assignment by Prof Yongki Go (Most took 6-7 days, but can be finished in 1 day of Matlab and 1 day of report-typing, about 15%), 1 super tricky quiz by Prof TG Pai (15 MCQ questions that I dont have time to finish but still, better remember to elaborate on your answers, about 15%) and a killer 2.5hr final exam (that you would need 3/3.5 hr to finish, 70% of total).
The first part is by Prof Yongki Go. He covers the content of aircraft performance fast within 1 week, followed by a super hard and super waste time assignment. I was careless on that part (even though most of my answers are featured in the solution), so didn't score that good. The first two questions in the final exam are set by Prof Yongki Go too. It's still do-able but like the assignment, very tedious and abit tricky. But the aircraft performance part, the questions have a standard way of answering, so not much trick on that part.
The second part is performance and stability by Prof TG Pai. This is the super difficult part, as flight stability and control is a concept that you'll need time to fully understand. Prof Pai is a great lecturer. During his lecture, although sometimes he got confused with himself (as he was rushing to finish the syllabus) and his accent are hard to catch, but somehow you can feel that he's very knowledgeable and passionate about what he teach. But sadly, he wasn't given enough time to finish his lectures, and also he's kind enough not to have make-up lectures (when so many public holidays fall on the days of his lectures).
As for the final exam, the first 2 question by Prof Go was tedious but do-able. The last 2 questions by Prof Pai is super difficult. In fact, if I didn't have a nightmare that I can't finish the paper on time, I wouldn't have thought of skipping questions and try to complete as much questions. Actually I quite like this module from the start, but it's a pity that I wasn't the best student. Overall, it's an interesting module which I would like to pursue on in the future.

AE3004/MA8005 Aircraft Electrical Systems and Devices (3AU)
Lecturer: Dr Mohammed Haque/Assoc Prof So Ping Lam
Personal Notes
Study Techniques: Mindmaps
Result: A+

Review:
This module consists of 20% quiz (consisting of 5 MCQ questions) and 80% final exam. This is equivalent to EE2005, and the same professors from EEE also teach this module. They're quite good and somehow quite 'trained' in this module, so much so that they keep emphasizing what will come out for the quiz and exam.
For this module, I didn't attempt the tutorial questions beforehand. However, I copy solutions during tutorials as a form of learning, in addition to attempting the tutorial questions twice after (once before quiz, once before exam). In addition, I've practiced on the lecture solutions twice as well. I manage to finish the exam on time, and also complete most of the questions satisfactorily.

AE3005 Aerodynamics 2 (3AU)
Lecturer: Asst Prof Jörg Schlüter
Personal Notes
Cheat Sheet
CFD Assignment
Quiz
Wiki Assignment
Study Techniques: Mindmaps
Result: A

Review:
This module consists of 5% CFD assignment, 10% Quiz, 15% Wiki Assignment and 70% final exam. For this module, it's bit more challenging to me than the rest, as I didn't have a good foundation for low-speed aerodynamics, and I've forgotten most of my thermodynamics. In addition, there's a lot of waste-time component here, such as taking 5 days to run all the simulations for CFD assignment (for just 5%), spending time to type the Wiki assignment (and trying to convert what I've typed to picture file so that things would appear just like in MSword, but in the end we can also upload our word documents). The quiz was actually alright, just that I act smart and wrote what I shouldn't, so I didnt score well. As for the final exam, I've got my timing wrong, so I didn't manage to finish my paper in time.
Overall, this module is not very xiong, as tutorials are few. In addition, Prof Schluter seems to be more slack than the previous AE3005 lecturer. But there's still a need to put in certain amount of effort to do well.

HW210/HW0210 Technical Communications (2AU)
Tutor: Ms Aileen Ng Cheng Cheng
Result: A

Review:
This module is very fun to me, especially when I have 4 great friends in my group. Everyone do their part for the project, and we're all dedicated to get good grades. In addition, we worked smart. Our experiments took us only half a day and the rest of the results are 'smoked', yet we put up a convincing project that few would rebute. I guess the group dynamics is there as we share a lot of things in common. As for the tutor, she's quite 'mechanical', in that you have to write up the report and present the project to her specifications, if not you won't be able to score. There's no specific way of scoring for this module, so what I can advise is to adapt according to the tutor.

HP801/HP8001 Mind Over Stress (3AU)
Lecturer: Ms Siew Mann Diong
Result:
Review placed at GER(PE) AHSS.

AE4079/MA4079 Final Year Project-URECA (Technopreneurship) (10AU)
Asst Prof (Adj) Li King Ho Holden, Asst Prof Yoon Yong Jin

Labels: 2.1.3.1 Year 3 Semester 1

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