Chemical Engineering (General Rules)

Chemical Engineering is as easy as it is worthless, and an appropriate level of effort should be expended on it.

Understand that lecturers are researchers before they are teachers, and will usually not be of any help to you (often hindering you), but you don't need or want their help anyway. Understand that you are responsible for your own learning, in the most extreme sense.

General Rules of Thumb for Sleazing Chemical Engineering

 * Don't attend any lectures, they're a waste of time. You can spend that time doing more productive things, like studying.


 * Don't attend any tutorials, they're a waste of time. You can spend that time doing more productive things, like PS3.


 * Study the lecture slides and tutorial problems on Blackboard.


 * Memorise the tutorials, class problems, and assignments. There is a 50% chance they will come up again in your tests and exams.


 * Network with others who have done these units in the past. There is the remaining 50% chance that their problems will come up again in your tests and exams. Lecturers aren't a creative lot.


 * If you have questions, speak only to tutors or lecturers who are Asian or Mauritian - you do not, under any circumstance, want to bother with the others. Your peers may occasionally be of help.


 * Master Microsoft Excel, and use it always.
 * WolframAlpha is your friend.


 * Google is your friend.
 * Google is also that seedy friend that knows a guy who knows a guy who found some engineering books and solutions manuals that fell off the back of a truck.


 * Eat well, sleep well and relax. You can always cram the day before.

Useful Links

 * Google
 * WolframAlpha