There needs to be more accountability from the staff running this course. After receiving a low mark of B, and discussing with some groups, it is apparent they did not read many parts of the report. The staff would also be difficult in replies and give conflicting "suggestions". I recommend trying to "get on the good side" future students.

Very rude and condescending to students that were in stress already.

I don't know if it's because of Covid, but this professor's teaching style is terrible. Her notes are almost useless and disorganized. And her assignments are worded in ways to more confuse you then make sense. Overall, a terrible experience with this professor.

This is probably the worst class ive taken through my entire degree. Marnie asks us to watch the pre lecture videos, which is just her reading slides without adding anything more. Then expects us to show up to the lecture, in which they pointlessly send us to breakout rooms and waste time. All we get during lecture time is jokes and stories...

this is literally the worst class and the worst prof Ive come across in the last 3 years in ualberta. first of all, the course is not organized at all. the eClass is clustered and theres 100s of different articles. Secondly, she just doesnt care about her students. She literally laughs at our hurdles. Please, save yourself and dont take her.

Absolutely disorganized class, and useless lectures. She doesn't' explain much about the chemical engg design process. She often tells us what we should learn, but doesn't teach what is expected of us to know for the course. The slides are often pictures of the various equipment with no explanation of the application of design principles

The fact that she has a rating over 1/5 is shocking! By far the worst prof I have ever had!! Not sure if you can even call her a prof since she does NO teaching in live classes and just makes us watch prelecture videos Class is 100% self taught and spent in breakout rooms 90% of the time

Terrible professor on a power trip. Willing to fail 6 kids in a pass/fail course over less than 10% on one assignment that dictates the entire class. If you can, steer away from this prof. She is unreasonable and her classes are unorganized and unfair.

Terrible Professor, arrogant, does not care about students, is willing to fail people in a Cr/NCR class. Has an obsession with sending students to the dean for no reason. Way to many assignments, more quizzes than all my other classes. She poorly planned the class, did not meet the objective of the class, and had no respect for anyone but wanted it

This course is pass or fail. Extremely disorganized and her lectures offer nothing. The online quizzes ask extremely subjective questions on select all that apply questions and unless you guess all of them correctly you'll get 0 marks for the question. Terrible prof made this course even more annoying.

This is probably the most useless course in first year engineering. Way too much work for a Cr/NCr course to the point where I had to put aside work from courses actually worth a grade. Also, this course was extremely disorganized and I hope they remove this course cause its not with the time or effort.

Worst prof ever. Not sure why she was assigned for the important capstone courses (464/465) but she made the capstone projects even harder than they should be. Her classes were useless. She treated students differently based on her favouritism. Avoid her if there's any other option.

Never left a review before but I have to make an exception for this prof. By far the worst professor Ive ever had in my life. Messy eClass page. Zero teaching in lectures, she just sends you to breakout rooms all class. Insanely difficult exams with no clear way to study. Unfair to some students over others. Horrible grader. Please save yourselves

All the other reviews speak for themselves.

Although early in the course, there is a strong influence encouraging students to believe in and support the exact viewpoints of the course designer with little opportunity for students to express genuine personal opinions on problems.

She is awful

WORST COURSE EVER

Joke of a course and teacher. Way too much work for a CR/NCR course & the group project is just dreadful. Marnie takes the class way too seriously & even her TA's know the class is a joke. I learned nothing in this course and I hope for future students sake, the class is scrapped. She is arrogant and on a power trip. All other reviews are true.

Pretty terrible professor and course, makes up re-evaluation assignments on the spot without clarifying to TA's and the course is led in perhaps the worst way anyone could literally think of.

Dog shit course, very poorly designed class, its a disaster and the course has a larger course load than my GPA courses.

Treated these mickey mouse credit courses like it was nuclear launch codes. Used terrible software exam lock for no reason. No other class used this software except for this class that doesn't even have a GPA attached. Terrible instructor and makes everyone's lives difficult no absolutely no reason (these tests were open book by the way).

For an open-book credit/no credit class, she decided it was a genius idea to force about 1000 students to go online and record themselves while writing an open-book test every single week. Students would struggle to use outdated software and would miss their tests. Takes more time to set up the camera/share screen than to do the entire test.

Awful course. It was literally ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL by the USA to inspect students' rooms prior to taking an online test (I'm not making this up. Search it up!). Obviously we're in Canada, but to be ruled unconstitutional still says a lot. And despite that, we have to record our rooms before every OPEN-BOOK quiz... why? Where's our privacy?

I hope they remove this course for future engineers cuz its actually hell. Such a waste of time as if we dont already have enough on our hands. Horrible horrible horrible prof.

Too much work for a pass/fail class. They decided to "gamify" the course to make it "more fun" but all it did was make the eclass incredibly messy and made it really difficult to check if you've had everything done. We had weekly quizzes that were OPEN BOOK but still had to use smart exam monitor and exam lock.

This class takes what should have been an informative and enjoyable course and turns it into a mess of needless boring and drawn out readings and garbage weekly quizzes. Everything you're required to read will make you angrier and angrier as you read on and realize everything in them could be said in less than a third of the words actually used.

Marnie Jamieson is one of the worst professors to ever walk on Earth. She constantly assigns unnecessary and tedious assignments to Engineering majors, who already have too much work. Her online quizzes are always broken too. Learn how to fix your quizzes, Marnie. To top it all off, Marnie Jamieson has never worked a day as an actual engineer.

Emails are excessive and not concise whatsoever. The course expects much more from us than what it is worth and the way the course is set up is super confusing.

Marnie is one of the top reasons I have had thoughts on dropping out. She has made a pass/fail course into one of the worst things I have ever experienced. She uses faulty, invasive software to proctor quizzes that could be completed by a blindfolded third grader and then blames you when the software breaks for the millionth time. 0/10 stay away.

Uses surveillance software for easy pass/fail quizzes, sends an incredible amount of useless and messy emails, structured her eClass seemingly to confuse everyone as much as possible, and has completely ruined a course which had the potential to be informative and useful. The result of when someone with no empathy or experience is put in charge.

I talked to Jason Carey, the creator of this course and the dean of CSJ and the way Marnie runs the course is not how he pictured it. The project itself is not bad but the 1/5 is from the weekly 20 question tests done through examlock and SEM. These tests are open book and require skim reading a few pdf's. She is also quite cold in her spam emails.

She is rude in her emails and her weekly 30 question open book quizes are done through examlock and SEM for no reason.

She strongly dislikes students. Her spam emails can come across as rude and aggressive at times. There is sem and examlock on open book quizzes for no reason. Her "gamified" eclass is impossible to navigate. Overall she does not care about students. Hopefully ualberta does something to resolve this mess of a PASS FAIL COURSE.

Marnie Jamieson is the perfect embodiment of bureaucratic incompetence, who serves only to trip on what little power she could get her hands on. This abysmal excuse for a class tries to feign purpose and professionalism through locked down open book weekly quizzes and they are as redundant and ridiculous as they sound. Please retire bozo ;).

A hands-on build assignment that has absolutely nothing to do with the planning we've been doing during the entire semester is an incredibly minor absurdity compared to the rest of the flaws of this course. But it still baffles me when I try to think of a reason for this assignment.... it seems that it was employed only to waste our time.

ENGG160 is built like a maze that tries as hard as possible to confuse and harass engineering students who are just trying to get by all their courses. A bunch of notifications with no known due date making forgetting something super simple. Her emails are very wordy which is weird because we are being taught to write concisely. Quite bad overall.

Marnie Jamieson has made ENGG 160, a PASS/ FAIL course possibly the most horrid and time consuming class we have. The sheer amount of assignments we already have makes our lives hard enough. I am not implying that this course is useless, I am implying that Marnie Jamieson has ensured that the workload of this course is worse than it needs to be.

Quizzes are run like the TSA 3 months after 911. Her smile in videos is haunting. I had a nightmare about hearing "thanks for listening we'll see you in class". Dont bother emailing she will deliberately ignore you or respond with something useless. Class is just overcomplicating a simple task and learning weird holistic soft skills. Waste of time

She sucks yall

I have never seen a more confusing and horrendous eclass. I follow along with emails and have zero clue if I am acutally on track to pass or not. I swear a less confusing eclass could have been made on a high school chromebook whilst heavilty sedated off narcotics

I am ready for death because marnie has prepared me for hell

Her eclass is the most messy, mind numbing, diluted thing I have ever seen. The course is convoluted and the criteria for passing is near impossible to determine. We also get a tiresome amount of pointless emails that make us care about the class less. Quizzes use monitored with more security then finals. Her class is "painified" not "gamified".

The course shell is extremely cluttered and hard to navigate. I didn't learn anything about engineering except for the fact that it took 15 seconds for some bridge to fall down. They also force us to download chinese spyware to take open book tests. The class is also automatically assigned to all engineering students here. Do not recommend

I was taught there were seven cardinal sins, but by instructing this course Marnie clearly discovered the eighth.

She teaches concepts on AI - autism inducement. I literally have mild autism after this class. Probably gunna kill myself because of it.

Made engg160 unnecessarily hard, ghosted my emails lol

Could've been a fun class if directed differently. Assignments are easy enough. Double proctoring on true or false open-book quizzes is clinically insane however. Marnie, if ur reading this plz get rid of double proctoring :D

Everything about this was poorly done and managed. The eclass was cluttered and the tests were run like I was a high profile enemy of the state being interrogated by the FBI. The course had so much potential to teach us meaningful skills in the profession of engineering and she somehow managed to mess it ALL up.

After learning about interdisciplinary projects from her, I left the inspirational tag because I've been inspired by her to leave the engineering part to someone else and use my time for something better like a degree in arts. Might not make as much, but at least I'll have an idea of what I'm doing because the instruction here can't get any worse.

I may have received full marks in my previous assignments, however, one small slip-up and Marnie will likely hunt you and your 5 teammates down to end your engineering career before it even started. You can try emailing her with any questions, but I guarantee she won't bother to answer you. I still don't know if I can even pass this course. Regrets

The textbook definition of how not to run a course. Although the personal quizzes can be easy, them all being double proctored makes everything a pain to do. As well, the course, despite being NC/CR, is more assignment and work heavy than most of the courses you take during the semester, being a consistent weekly time sink that burns your time away

Awfully designed class, eClass is a mess, and the badges are convoluted. This prof is the sole reason I want to drop out of engg.

350 characters cannot begin to explain how terribly she runs this class. Taking open book quizzes while double-proctored is a complete joke and the badge system only serves to complicate an already packed eClass. The amount of work needed for a CR/NCR class is absurd. This class is a joke and I'm sorry to anyone who has to take it in the future.

I never want to wear a seatbelt while driving cuz I genuinely want to die before her class.

I would have better odds of making it out alive in the maze runner than navigating through the labyrinth of this class. If this eclass had been introduced in WW2 scientists would have only now discovered how to access the safety quiz. - "Regrets"

Marnie is known for her fantastic ability to torture students without a slight twitch to her toothless smile. The chance of a child in Africa finding water is better than the chance of finding Quiz 1 on her Rosetta Stone like eClass page. "Regrets"

Poo poo stinky class I hate it I want to die because of it

This course is a waste of time for engineering students. For a credit course, there is no reason to have an open book test monitored by SEM and exam lock. Many students couldn't even access the quizzes due to all the monitoring systems and confusing eclass page. She is useless when responding to emails. don't expect a response.

The eng 160 course is an absolute atrocity with her taking "charge". You could find probably find Waldo in a world sized map before finding the right assignment on eclass. Not to mention, the endless spam of useless weekly emails with spelling mistakes and a condescending tone. Pain. "Regrets".

Took ENGG160, absolutely disgusting course, no planning, no order or organisation. If this course was a credit course It would've been preferable. Too much work for a pass-fail course. Double-proctored open book quizzes are not reasonable. Nothing about this course is If you're en route to take this, good luck soldier

ENGG160 had the potential to be a resourceful course like ENGG100 was to us first years last semester. The difference was that Dr. Lazaruk understood that first years weren't going to allocate large amounts of time on material for CR/NC courses. In comparison, Dr. Jamieson expects an unreasonable time commitment just for a pass on your transcript.

If any credit is to be given, I think ENGG 160 would be a pretty good course overall, only if they got rid of the quizzes. And maybe the logbook posts. Also the group assignments. And Marnie. You know, come to think of it, nothing from this course is redeemable. Get rid of the whole course.

Marnie needs to stop taking herself so seriously. Just because you have a giant house and a Phd doesn't mean you know how to make a good engineering course. Engg160, while not difficult, was way too time consuming than it needed to be. "Regrets"

Idk who made engg160 so bad, but I blame marnie

Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile

I will rather die than take this course.

I became depressed as a result of this teacher. Quizzes are so ridiculous. They don't know how to put crap together. If you are a new student taking Engg 160 the following year, don't waste your time and do minimum work for this subject. Try using the PhD to actually change things rather than just to type emails on it.

why she record the lectures in a creek?

When you 'accidentally' release the home sweet home badge just to take it away, send another ridiculously un-concise email saying sike, and then proceed to instead erase the data of everyone's completed quiz 1 :/

Engg 160 has so much potential to be a really great class, but Marnie ruined it for everyone. The eclass is a mess, the concept of badges is stupid, and double proctored quizzes?!?! for a CR/NC course?!? I was looking forward to actually learning something that could very well help my career but naw. Its a waste of your precious engg time.

Marnie Jamieson has ruined the mental health of every first year engineer. Glad to hear she got fired.

I have nothing but profane and derogatory things to say about this Lich queen. She's deadset on harvesting and douring the souls of first year eng. She teaches from the bog or creek where her coven lives. I hope she's fired.

double proctored exams for a pass fail course that are open book. the proctoring softwear also probably gave my computer a virus.

The Eclass page is a maze that has no exit. The amount of work required for this pass/fail course is astronomical. The complete disconnect between professor and students reminds me Michael Scott.

The eclass page was a complete mess, completely unorganized. Absolutely no transparency in any correspondence between students and the prof. Use of invasive proctoring software for quizzes in a CR/NCR course. Absolute mess of a class in its totality under their management.

The sustainable quiz is ridiculous!!! Where are we supposed to find answers???

eclass page is poorly setup, all the assignments are hidden in between tons of reading you need to do. Open book online quizzes require you to install monitoring software which is questionable as its a credit/no-credit class, no other class in 1st year engineering does this. overall very poorly ran course

This class was awful. So much work just for a pass fail credit credit. SEM was extremely annoying to use, and alongside her passive aggressive emails she sent out almost everyday.

Marnie DOES NOT know how to use Eclass, quizzes are badly explained and randomly change on the security protocol to complete. She decided to delete half the classes quiz grades on a Friday night just for fun. Badge system is confusing and impossible to keep track of, online quizzes are needlessly secure and invasive. engg 160 is 1984.

"Regrets." yes, you heard her right, just that in a sentence. Messy eClass, poorly executed gamification. Her position as course co-ordinator was essentially unneeded, and she took away the opportunity from four other professors. If you're going to end up teaching all the lectures anway why not just make yourself formally in charge of all sections.

Not a good way to learn

This class was the leading cause of my burnout this semester. I would rather relapse all three ways than take this class again 0/10 would not recommend

These firsties are disrespectful...Newsflash: who asked?This is the worst course you will take in first year thanks to Marnie. The next first years better pray that Marnie doesn't find a way to make the course even worse than it already is. Also be prepared for literally 1984 style dictatorship, all those who voice their opinion are ignored/banned.

Engg 160 has the potential to be a interesting and engaging class. However, the way Marnie has set up this course is a disaster as everything is super disorganized and messy on the eclass. It is very hard to tell what you need to know in order to pass, and the badges are just overcomplicated. She also spams emails which are hard to understand.

While this credit/no credit course should be an easy and enjoyable class compared to the rest of first year engineering courses, Marnie makes the course harder and more tedious than it should be. You need to use SEM and ExamLock for every single test, made up of useless made up content you don't need to know.