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Live
Problem-Solving Classes - $ 20 Per Week for 4 hours per week |
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Problem-solving class meets weekly for the entire semester for two,
2-hour weekly sessions ; 4 students minimum |
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of less than 4 students, the class will not run; there is no prorating
of rates; the class will start up only if there are 4 or more distinct
students |
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Courses |
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| Studying for your engineering
courses |
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| Taking engineering courses can be a
very traumatic, personality-changing experience. |
| It takes so much time to decipher the
textbook, the lectures are usually confusing and you get stuck when
trying to solve the problems. |
| The next thing that you do is to build a mountain of
information: more textbooks, study-guides, searching for internet
literature. |
| Before you know it, you spend most of
your time, trying to organize all your information, instead of solving
problems and learning
the material. |
| Then you get stuck in a quagmire of
information and information-overload sets in. |
| It takes hours to study and with heavy
course-loads, work and family pressures, the outcome is always the
same: |
| You fall behind, you run out of time,
and you go into " putting-out-the-fires " mode. |
| The next semester, you resolve to study
on a regular basis, to read the textbook before class, to turn in homeworks on
time, to study for your exams weeks before, |
| and you will never pull all-nighters
again. |
| After a few weeks into the next
semester, you end up falling into the same pattern. |
| Then when you try to recall your
information from previous semesters, it is not there, you cant remember
anything, as if you never took the prior courses. |
| And you wonder what happened. |
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| In the live Problem-solving class, you can
do most of your studying for your course in two weekly, 2-hour study
sessions |
| Study in an engineering course for only
4 hours a week ? You sometimes spend 4 hours
on just one problem ! |
| The study format of the live
Problem-solving
class is ideal for mature
engineering students with jobs and families, and who have limited study
time available. |
| In the live Problem-solving class, you learn very efficient problem-solving
procedures, which replace hours of reading of the textbook. |
| When you read a textbook or attend
engineering lectures, you really are trying to learn two things: |
| 1. what are the equations |
| 2, how do I apply the equations |
| This is what our problem-solving
procedures give you; in a few minutes we summarize what would take hours
and hours of reading. |
| You can spend your valuable study-time
solving problems and learning the material, instead of spending hours
reading texts, classnotes and study-guides. |
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Here is a quick sample of a
problem-solving procedure |
| After learning the efficient procedures,
you will learn the material by hand-solving problems, along the way we
incorporate homework, which you will solve yourself. |
| The study sessions are
not extra work; they replace the studying which you would normally do,
but in a much more efficient way. |
| One hour in the study
session is equivalent to 5 to 10 hours of studying by yourself. |
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| The improvements in engineering
students performance in their course-work has been unbelievable |
| We invented the
R-I-M-S tm
and
S-I-M-S
tm Problem-solving methods in 1986, which we have applied and refined in
our Problem-solving classes, with incredible results. |
| Thousands of engineering
students have been trained by these methods in our live Problem-solving classes since 1986. The students spanned
the entire spectrum. |
| High gpa students have become even
better students. |
| Marginal students became strong
students. |
| Weak students, and students at risk of
probation thrived in this format and were able to graduate. |
| Students who actually had dropped out of
the engineering program, heard about our Problem-solving classes, signed up,
and used the Problem-solving classes to structure their studying |
| for most of their course-work, these
students have since graduated and are
now accomplished Pe-licensed engineers with succesful engineering
careers. |
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| Here is typical feedback from a
former student ( thousands of engineering students have had the same
response to the Problem-solving classes ) |
I took 5 or 6 Problem-solving classes with
Ensys for my civil engineering degree while attending UCF. Without the
Ensys courses I probably would not have completed my degree. I was
working full time and attending school part time. The Ensys courses
essentially replaced the school course work. I did not study any notes
from class or even attended lectures. I just studied the Ensys courses.
They are fabulous! The Ensys courses are the most complete
Problem-solving
classes I have ever seen. I believe the Ensys courses have a 100% pass
rate. Another engineer in my firm has taken (and passed) the FE with the
Ensys system. He had only positive things to say about the course.
Good luck in your endeavors.
Rick Ortiz, P.E.
Project Engineer
Miller Sellen Conner & Walsh
214 E. Lucerne Circle
Orlando, Florida 32801
Rick.Ortiz@mscwinc.com |
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from engineering professionals |
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| Almost all engineering companies in the
Orlando area have engineers who have attended our Live Problem-solving classes. |
| Students who attend the Live
Problem-solving
classes, get an average of a B+ in their coursework, many have achieved
A grades. |
| Out of thousands of students who
attended the live Problem-solving classes, no student ever failed. |
| Some students who failed every exam, and
who came in near the end of the Problem-solving class, and only saw the last
few sessions, were able to pass their course. |
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Overview of the live Problem-solving class |
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| The live Problem-solving class is designed for
the student to develop a high level of proficiency by hand-solving 500
problems in the engineering subject. |
| Each problem teaches a different aspect
of the theory. |
| Students develop greatly improved
problem-solving skills, comprehension of concepts and better long-term
retention. |
| The class runs for one semester, for 64
contact hours, and meets on a regular schedule for the entire semester,
meeting every week for two problem-solving sessions. |
| The two sessions replace / integrate
lectures, studying lecture-notes, reading textbooks, problem-solvers,
reference material, practicing problems, doing homework, |
| attending informal study-groups,
visiting the instructor’s office, attending Problem-solving labs or working
with homework help services. |
| In the live Problem-solving sessions, the theory is
presented using step-by-step procedures, followed by problems which are
sequenced in difficulty-level.
quick samples |
| Students practice hands-on problem-solving
in a guided, structured, interactive format. |
| Help-levels are available and each
problem is discussed in detail. |
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Read more about our
problem-solving training methods |
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Read more about effective studying |
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| Objective |
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| 1. Learn efficient problem-solving
algorithms. |
| 2. Master the engineering material by
practicing hand-solving problems. |
| 3. Save valuable study-time; most of the
required studying and doing homework for a credit-course can be done
with the problem-solving class. |
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| Duration |
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| The live class runs for 1 semester, it
starts at the beginning of the semester and ends one week before
final-exam week. |
| The class meets for 2 weekly study
sessions during the semester. |
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| Who can benefit |
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| 1. Engineering students currently
enrolled for credit in engineering courses at the university. |
| 2. Engineering students who want to
pre-study an engineering course before taking it for credit at the
university. |
| 3. Engineering students with very low gpa who are at risk of being dropped from the engineering program. |
| 4. Engineering students who have been
placed on probation and who want to keep up with their skills and who
want to build up their backgrounds before re-entering. |
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| How To Use |
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Pre
Study |
Students can pre-study a course
without the pressure of a grade or exam deadlines.
The user can develop a thorough understanding of the subject
and
complete the assigned homework problems before taking the course
for credit. |
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Time
Management |
Students can take care of all
their work in a university-course, by studying in the
problem-solving study sessions.
All the theory from the textbooks is summarized in pink-sheets.
Users study the material by working problems in a structured,
hands-on problem-solving format.
Homework problems are included. |
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Post
Study |
Students can take the
problem-solving class to thoroughly study and learn the material
after having taken the course for credit.
If the student was not able to develop enough proficiency in the
course when taking it for credit, if he has deficiencies or if
he needs a stronger background in the material for future
course-work. |
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Incomplete
Pre-requisites |
Not all essential courses are
offered in the degree program.
Students can take the problem-solving class if the course is not
offered in the degree program but is necessary in order to
develop a stronger background. |
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University
Credit |
If a student’s work-schedule
conflicts with the university-class, he can study the material
in the problem-solving class and get credit by taking the
university exams at the local university. |
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| The syllabus |
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| The live problem-solving
class follows the syllabus of the course at your engineering university. |
| Submit your course-syllabus to us via
fax at 407.359.0871 or as an email attachment to
admin@engineeringtutor.net |
| Your syllabus will be used as a
guideline to organize and prepare the weekly study sessions. |
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| Students from different universities |
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If the sylabus and course
calendar differs substantially for users from different universities,
and if there are a sufficient number of students,
a new problem-solving class section may be opened. |
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| Teaching method |
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| The class helps students to master the
material by hand-solving problems,
read more about our
problem-solving training methods |
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| Set the weekly schedule |
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| The students in the class will decide on
the two weekly meetings. |
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| Problems to be worked |
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| The class parallels the university
engineering course, practice problems are hand-solved to learn the
material. |
| Homework problems will be integrated in
the sessions when they match the flow of topics covered, we should be
able to work most assigned homework problems. |
| Students may request homework problems
to be solved in the sessions; please give your homework list to the
instructor, and they will be sequenced in the sessions. |
| Homework problems will only be worked
after we have covered and taught the fundamental principles. |
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| Special assignments, take-home
tests, projects, labs |
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| These will not be worked in the
problem-solving class, private instruction is available for these
special assignments. |
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| Weekly billing |
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| The live class runs on a subscription
basis, at a weekly rate of $ 20, for up to 4 hours per week. |
| The student will be billed regardless of
attendance. |
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| No shows |
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| Students who miss more than 5 scheduled
meetings will be dropped from the class. |
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| Session files |
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| Students in the class pay to receive
live instruction and may handcopy all information from their computer
screen. |
| Students should hand-copy from the
screen when we present the problem-solving procedures, also known as the
pink sheets. |
| Students will hand-solve assigned
problems on paper, then hand-copy from the screen when we discuss the
solutions. |
| The class fee does not include any
files. |
| The whiteboard and audio files are
edited and post-produced within 24 hours of the live session; this is a
very labor-intensive process, then they are archived. |
| Users who register late can purchase the
files of previous sessions at $ 10 per session; each session will have
one digital whiteboard file and one audio file. |
| Registered users who attended the
session, can also purchase the session-files at half price: $ 5 per
session |
| Registered users who missed a session
can purchase the session-files at half price: $ 5 per session |
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| Late registrations |
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| Students who register late for the class
can purchase the whiteboard and audio-file of each session at $ 10 per
session. |
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Missed sessions |
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| Students who miss a session can purchase the
whiteboard and audio-file of the missed session at half price: $ 5 per
session |
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| Withdrawals |
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| Students may withdraw at any time from
the class which ends all billing. |
| There is no re-registration allowed in the class for
the current semester. |
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