re: ME 2334 at LSU?

Back in my day (i.e., during the Reagan era), ME thermo (as opposed to the one taught to PE's, that we caclled "business thermo", LOL) was a 2 x 3 hr sequence in which the first one was considered, along with dynamics & strengths later on, the weedout course for the department (i.e., for those who didn't get weeded out by calculus & physics). When I took that first one, there were originally about 150 students in the single section, and at the end about a third (and a few that failed even from there, I'm sure). It seemed that the regular (i.e., not summer) semester graduating class was about 50, so it would appear that thermo 1 (2333) was the bridge of death.

My instructor was a Turk named Ozer Arnas, nicknamed Ozer Hardass. If all 6 significant digits of R were not used in the calculation, he would deduct "a nickle", and he was very fond of pocketing change in many other ways . I'm not sure how it is these days, but back then, a major part of the work was properly doing interpolations for the properties using the steam (or other material) tables.

I can recall seeing some of my classmates that "didn't make it" later on in the CEBA building, only taking business courses instead (that admittedly had a lot more chicks).