Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

This class will expect, but not require, that you are available during the scheduled class period*. 

Questions regarding the material will be taken during the scheduled time. Lectures will be recorded and posted to the course D2L site.  The class will be a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous instruction. *There are four days of mandatory attendance: first day, midterm I, midterm II, and final. Schedule of these dates are posted on first day of class.

The class is very lecture heavy with sample problem demonstration. Every class is recorded but live attendance is encouraged to allow discussion and small group work to solidify concepts.

Homework is required. You will complete a homework log each week.
There are two midterms and a final exam.

NOTE: This class, as I teach it, is VERY vector based. Yes, there are tricks and trips that are taught in some statics classes and are shown in the textbook and on YouTube that work in special cases, but the way I teach the course is very vector based to prepare you for future classes where a vector approach is necessary.  So while the class might seem to be focused quite heavily on understanding vector operations and presentation at first, trust me it will pay off later in your engineering education. 

Advice: To prepare for this class, it is imperative that you have a good grasp on your basic unit circle and trigonometry functions [sin, cos, tan]. Also being able to solve for the six unknowns of a triangle, given a subset of them is critical to success in Statics. Lastly, review vectors: addition, subtraction, dot and cross multiplication of them.

If you have any questions, please contact the Instructor, William "Ike" Eisenhauer (william.eisenhauer@pcc.edu).  Thank you.

• D2L will be used as the course website. Students need a computer and internet access.
• Students will need technology, such as CamScanner on a phone or a scanner, for example, to take a photo or scan a sheet and upload it as a *.pdf file to D2L.