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While quite mathematical in nature as opposed to a purely applied view of the method, Prof, Krishna Garikipati's teaching style and clear explanations make the material accessible to practicing engineers outside of academia. This is a great course to take for a strong introduction to the theory of FE method. The TA's explanation videos, while being helpful can sometimes be too verbose. This is a long course, and took me nearly 4 months to finish the videos. I had to go back and watch each of the videos at least 2 times over these 4 months, since some ideas are a bit mathematically dense. Upon second viewing, the ideas become clearer. Overall, a highly recommended course!

This is a good intro course which introduce the Finite Element Method step by step, which suited me perfectly since I hardly coded in c++ nor did FEM before.

Nevertheless, as a graduate student, the pace is very slow, and the outline and motivation unclear, which would likely have discouraged me if I did not review video in x2, and stuck to second week lectures and onward.

I would advise to introduce more outline and motivation at the beginning of the week lecture to keep students motivated.

Apart from that, I recommand the course !

The course is a nice and well structured from theoretical point of view introduction to Finite Element Methods. The computational part is a little marginal in the course, but is the main for the grading. If the course had a perfect division between theory and computational part it would've been perfect. The only problem is that in theory, one does the same kind of calculations over and over again, and it's boring after few times.

There could be better support. I know this course is old, but since it's still up and running, some form of support or help from the staff would be very nice. When we run into problems, there is no one to get help from. Perhaps, it's about time Coursera updates this course or introduces another course in FEM. Otherwise, it's an interesting. Review math before starting this course.

In principle, it is a good course and taught in a very understanding manner. For a five star rating, I would like to suggest that there should be additional physics, e.g. convection problems, or turbulence, featuring a CFD chapter for example with heat transfer.

A good primer of the theoretical fundamentals of the Finite Element Methods. The coding assignments were good too but could have benefited more with support from the mentors via the forums.

The course is really deep and I have to say the professor really inspired me to keep learning.It might be a little slow but the course is in general pretty good.

The course was was great. However, illustrative examples solving real engineering problems could be introduced in lecture.

Really recommend it. There will be times when you think you should give up, but just finish it. It is worth it.

Well structured course. It builds up from the basics of finite elements to more complex problems.

Great course. However, the materials for the asssignments needs some maintainance.

Good content, not easy for beginners. It may take much longer to fully understand the content covered in the lecture.

Programming exercise is somehow difficult as you have to watch dealIii tutorial videos on YouTube yourselves.

One particular drawback is that the presentation skill of the instructor should be improved as there are a lot of repetitive unnecessary and redundant writing and explanation.

Okay for learning the basics of FEM outside of a real clasroom setting. Focused too much on using their own software for actual FEM analysis. I understand that creating an actual FEM from scratch is too much to ask for an online course, but a lot of their program isn't well documented and detracts from the learning experience.

You will need much more time than the time listed (expectation time listed). Although you can learn

a lot!!!!! I feel grateful!

the course is enough learn things better way to explain give notes and pdf format and doc l.

Not clear on AWS setup. Easy get confused

good for improving skills

good exprnce

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The instructor way of teaching is very disengaging and random, the course illustration is very poor. I hardly push myself to keep going and listen the rest of the course.

Lecturer expresses anything at a snail's pace. He is really a slowcoach.

the video lectures are very bad quality