[RWebb]

I'm sorry to hear about you r problems with the classes.

'"those that can't do, teach" applies to engineering professors. At least for the tenured full-time professors.'

That has not been my experience. I've always found the engineering faculty to be very helpful (and I have taken eng. heat transfer classes + other interactions as a grad. student & faculty + I went to an eng. school (Crass Western Perverse) as an undergrad.).

For the full profs. I can tell you one thing - by that time they have perhaps been so over-worked that they are like old, worn out draught horses. We used to make fun of them as "dead-wood" but after further experience, I don't blame any of them for getting burned out.