Eighth Semester

My Eighth semester (Summer 2012)

This is the first semester I took four classes and it was a summer semester. If you do not have a job or other responsibilities I would think this could be done without working day and night. But I do have a job. So I would not recommend more than two classes during the summer. I was not late on any assignments, but I did work day and night.

I wanted to take all of these classes as face to face classes but three of them were canceled so I had to look for online classes. And I think that might have helped me since I could work ahead and when I had time.     

This was the first time I used software to grade what I was doing, I never used “my math lab”. It did not grade everything but it did grade a lot of my work. I do feel sorry for the electrical engineering professors. They spend a lot of time grading papers (homework and test), they earn their money.

 

Classes:

 CINS 101       Introduction to Microcomputers (Tuesday and Thursday 1:00-5:00)

I did need a code for MYITLAB. The professor was Shawn Oltz. He is normally teaching classes for pre-engineering. This classes covers the Microsoft office suite. I had worked with Excel, Word and PowerPoint before, but still learned some things. I had never used Access before but I know database design, so I learned a lot about Access itself. I did not like having software grade my test, it does not take into account you just hit the wrong key, selected to much text, and that you know what you are doing just if you did what it wanted you o do exactly like it want you to do it. It does allow for more than one way.

 
CINS 102       Information Systems Fundamentals (Online-Kokomo)

Other than the printed book and the Book that was on DVD, I did not use any other codes. The professor was Christine Stiles. I did not like the test and quizzes in this class at all. Some of the questions seemed to be worded to try and trick you. It was my lowest scoring class. It does introduce you to a lot of areas within information systems. And some of what I learned in my electronics classes helped in this class. Like how many states does a tube have? Two, why did we need to know that? I am not sure, unless it was to try and reinforce binary is used by computers.  

 CINS 113       Logic, Design and Programming (Online-Kokomo)

This class used two books but I did not need any codes, bu did need visual basic 2010 from Microsoft, which was free. The professor was Christine Stiles. This class was pretty easy for me. I have been programming since 1976 (I started in school), and doing it for a living since 1979.

CINT 106       Microcomputer Operating System (Online-Munice)

For this class I only needed one book. The professor was Christine Arthur Mahan. This class is very easy to get an A in it. And it is a very interesting class if you are a person whole likes to know the details of how and why something works the way it does what it does.   

 

Seventh Semester

My Seventh  semester (Spring 2012)

 

Classes:

 

EECT 279              Advanced Problem Solving (Mon 1:00-5:00)

The professor was Rahim Negahban.  This class had no book. The class is to get you ready for the CET test. It was hard because you cover material in this class that is not covered in other classes, and there is not a lot of time spent on any one subject. There was a quiz given most classes to punish the students who should up late, left early or did not show up at all. It seamed like more of a punishment for those of us who were there.

 

EECT 222              Introduction to Microcontrollers (Mon 5:30-10:00)

The professor was R. Scott Coppersmith.  This class was another disappointing class. It did not go into as much detail as I would have liked, most of the time was spent in labs. There was very little homework or quizzes.

 

EECT 226              Computer Troubleshooting (Thur 6:00 - 9:50)

The professor was Joshua Johanan .  The class used a book that is used for A+ certification, but since we did not have to take the test after this class it did not teach to it, and was not as hard as it could have been. I did learn more than I expected to learn having worked with computer since 1979.

 

Sixth Semester

My Sixth semester (Fall 2011)

This was a rough semester for me, the classes had a fair amount of homework and they were all hard classes.

 

Classes:

 

EECT 221              Solid State (Mon 1:00 -4:50)

The professor was Rahim Negahban.  This class went along nicely with the AC circuit analysis class. But having two electronic classes with the same professor in the same room, over about the same subjects, made it hard to separate what was said and done in which class.

 

PHYS 101             Physics I  (Mon 5:30 - 9:45))

The professor was Keith Madden. It was his first semester teaching his course, and he used the material from the last professor, which at times made it difficult, since he was not sure what was going to be on the quizzes, midterm or final. But he took it easy on grading.   There was two quizzes every class, a closed book multiple choice quiz. And an open book quiz that were problems that needed to be worked.

 

EECT 211              AC Circuits Analysis (Wed 5:30-9:50)

The professor was Rahim Negahban. This class got into complex numbers which did make it hard, and the math more complicated.

                               

 

Fifth Semester

My Fifth semester (Summer 2011)

 

Classes:

 

EECT 121 - Electronics Circuit Analysis (MW 5:30-9:50)

The professor was Rahim Negahban. This is where it got hard for me, and a lot of others. AC was added and being twice a week for 8 weeks made it pretty fast paced. The class (and the morning class) did so bad on the first test he had those of us who could come in four days a week. And I did most of the days.

 

IVYT 1XX  - Life Skills Elective (102 Fri 10:00-11:15)

The professor for this class was Elizabeth Heitsch. She worked in the library and I think has since left Ivy Tech to go back to where she was raised to be by family. It is normally an eight week course so having it in the summer did not make it any harder. IVYT 102 (Information. Studies and Research Skills) should have really been taken before ENG 111, but since I had ENGL 111 first I knew how to do a lot of this.

 

I did get to go to Chick-Fil-A for free coffee before I went to class, that was nice since it was right on the way.

                               

Fourth Semester

My fourth semester (Spring 2011)

Classes:

EECT 122 Digital Applications (Tues 6:00-9:50)

This was the second half of the digital classes, with the same professor and book. It was at the same day and time as the first digital class.  The final was hard, it is based on Purdue’s test.

EECT 111 Introduction to Circuits Analysis (Wed 5:30-9:50)

The professor was Rahim Negahban. And I do not remember a lot about the class, except I think we started getting into more electronic components, like Operational Amplifiers.  But still just DC.

MATH 137 Trigonometry w/Analytic Geometry (Tues 2:30-5:15)

The professor was John Treacy. This class was hard, because I had never had any (or very little) trigonometry before.  Thank goodness for half the points or corrections and take home test.