I have the LAST University of Detroit BME diplomas from summer of 90 (there was only 33 of us graduating at the end of summer semester, 30 engineers and 3 architects), the next semester they merged with Mercy to become U of D Mercy - If it was Mercy U of D, they would be MUD....
My son is completing his general ed classes at a local community college here and is planning to go to Southern IL University in fall for ME.
Good luck guys. Calc II is difficult and you need to know it well for your future classes like differential equations.
I remember being up studying past 2 AM during weekdays while the "business major" in the dorm room next to me was partying by 9 PM every night.... His girlfriend did his homework for him, then he dumped her senior year. We called them "blowoff business majors"... Their classes weren't half as hard as ours were. I was taking 22 - 24 credit hours per semester and went 3 summers just to get out in 4 years. It's hard work, but worth it afterwards.
I really enjoyed Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) I & II and testing the different engines on a dyno.
I just missed taking thermodynamics with one of the best thermo teachers in the country, Dr. Juinn P Chiu (we called him Jimmy Chiu). He was my advisor and died over spring break when I was starting thermo in the fall. He was going to China to visit his sick mother and had a brain hemorrhage on the flight there and died before the plane landed. I was sooo bummed. He had either 77 or 177 technical papers on heat transfer and thermodynamics, worked at U of D full time, contracted at Chrysler part time and did research at school (only slept 4 hours per night). He told his thermo class why the space shuttle Challenger blew up 1/2 hour after it happened! He had been involved in the design of the booster seals and knew the seal was unstable below 40° F. He designed the air to air intercooler for Chrysler's turbo II engines. One of my upper classmen friends could not understand one of the concepts and went to his office for help, then missed that problem on the next test. When Dr. Chiu handed him back his test, he asked him "What happened? How did you miss that after we went over it?" He really cared about us students. He also structured Thermo I so if you did all your work and put in reasonable effort, you could get by with a "C" which helped the electrical and chemical engineers get through Thermo I (it was required for them). Mechanical engineers had to take Thermo II as a requirement for our degree.
The guy that replaced him wasn't as good as he was. Dean Haman realized that we did not get thermo to the same level as Dr. Chiu's students and had to take a week or two at the beginning of ICE I to get us caught up. Dean Haman taught ICE I & II, he was the head dean of Mechanical Engineering at the time (he also had a Dr. degree).
Oh, the good 'ol days....
