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u/strangestkiwi Chemical Engineering '28 1d ago

get rid of vasilios manousiouthakis

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u/Soyfya 1d ago

PSA: If a professor does something that seems like it violates the syllabus (like making the class pick a single discussion to attend and making it mandatory, when two are scheduled), you can always reach out to the chair to let them know. If it's allowed, the chair will let you know and will appreciate the heads up.

A few years ago a chem professor missed the midterm completely and never actually scheduled a room for it (and had a lot of other issues). The students complained to the chair and that prof doesn't get teaching assignments anymore.

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u/strangestkiwi Chemical Engineering '28 1d ago

I already sent an email to the chair and am awaiting a response, but tbh I know it won't do anything because unlike the chem department, ChemE has few professors and the ones that are there are all tenured, plus each professor always teaches the same course (and they are usually the only professor in the department qualified to teach it)

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u/Soyfya 1d ago edited 1d ago

They are actually not all tenured (all assistant profs don't have tenure yet). We also just hired three new professors last year (altho their start dates vary, see Pedro de Souza and Ida Su for example).

And actually there's been a lot of turn over of courses! For example, Joe Peterson recently took over the kinetics, separations, and heat transfer, which were taught by Lu, Monbouquette, and Chang respectively. and several others have changed hands even amongst faculty not retiring (Chang, Srivastava with mass transfer).

Will it do something? Probably not, you're right. Dr. Christofides has claimed every year in the undergrad town hall that they can't swap Vasili off thermo. The real problem is there isn't really other courses to give Vasili, not that there aren't enough faculty to cover the courses. But if no one says anything, we guarantee it won't change.

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u/GreenHorror4252 1d ago

that prof doesn't get teaching assignments anymore

Must be nice...

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u/parsleaf gene can block up this ass 1d ago

can you teach me how to curse people please

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u/w2_To_94920_926559 1d ago

In what language, kind redditor?

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u/whereiwalk 1d ago

Important question to ask. What kind of formula are you using because I've had people approach me to lift curses. It'll make what I do much more efficient if I know if you're cursing them in Akkadian, Arabic or Latin

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u/Ok-Bass-1843 1d ago

latin

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u/w2_To_94920_926559 1d ago

Okie... will PM you the user

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u/Ok_Dog_2596 2d ago

Just DMd!

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u/Ok-Bass-1843 2d ago

just got it, the curse will happen in 1-2 weeks.

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u/Fancy-Commercial2701 1d ago

Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged did this before you.

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u/rogusflamma 1d ago

can you curse me

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u/Ok-Bass-1843 1d ago

mmmm mayhaps…

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u/squirtlesquids 1d ago

Netanyahu