EC ENGR 102
Systems and Signals
Description: (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 102.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisite: Mathematics 33A. Corequisite: Mathematics 33B. Elements of differential equations, first- and second-order equations, variation of parameters method and method of undetermined coefficients, existence and uniqueness. Systems: input/output description, linearity, time-invariance, and causality. Impulse response functions, superposition and convolution integrals. Laplace transforms and system functions. Fourier series and transforms. Frequency responses, responses of systems to periodic signals. Sampling theorem. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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He is a horrible professor. He doesn't know what is going on half the time and it takes him 25 minutes just to figure out how to plug in his computer and get class started. He teaches a math intensive course with computer slides (which aren't helpful when working out math problems) and glosses over them way to quickly for anyone to process what he is explaining. Only about 1/3 of the class attends and of that 1/3, half of them are asleep because mostly everyone has no idea what he is talking about. Do yourself a favor and don't take him.
He is a horrible professor. He doesn't know what is going on half the time and it takes him 25 minutes just to figure out how to plug in his computer and get class started. He teaches a math intensive course with computer slides (which aren't helpful when working out math problems) and glosses over them way to quickly for anyone to process what he is explaining. Only about 1/3 of the class attends and of that 1/3, half of them are asleep because mostly everyone has no idea what he is talking about. Do yourself a favor and don't take him.
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For the longest time I never understood why Cabric gets such a low rating here. I had her for M16 and 102 and I thought she was fairly good, though a little boring during lectures. Homework was easy for M16 but challenging for 102. She was friendly in office hours and you could tell she actually cared about doing a good job in lecture. Her TA's where horrible however. In both cases (M16 and 102) her midterms were very straightforward and too easy, but the finals were both tricky. I hear a lot of people complain about the difficulty of her finals, but personally I think that it is just that they are very difficult compared to the midterms. To be fair her finals are difficult but fair, so you just have to be prepared. I'm no genius but I worked hard in her classes and did well. She's not strict with her grading policy either. I was in the top 20% for 102 and got an A. Seems pretty standard to me.
For the longest time I never understood why Cabric gets such a low rating here. I had her for M16 and 102 and I thought she was fairly good, though a little boring during lectures. Homework was easy for M16 but challenging for 102. She was friendly in office hours and you could tell she actually cared about doing a good job in lecture. Her TA's where horrible however. In both cases (M16 and 102) her midterms were very straightforward and too easy, but the finals were both tricky. I hear a lot of people complain about the difficulty of her finals, but personally I think that it is just that they are very difficult compared to the midterms. To be fair her finals are difficult but fair, so you just have to be prepared. I'm no genius but I worked hard in her classes and did well. She's not strict with her grading policy either. I was in the top 20% for 102 and got an A. Seems pretty standard to me.
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Fall 2016 - This was a challenging class without having taken some of the lower divs that offer a primer on some of the topics. The class moved fairly quickly. Homeworks generally take a long time if you are doing them by yourself. I thought it was necessary to go to lecture because the notes helped a lot on the problem sets. Her lectures follow a logical progression through the topics. Overall a positive experience I definitely learned something in the process.
Fall 2016 - This was a challenging class without having taken some of the lower divs that offer a primer on some of the topics. The class moved fairly quickly. Homeworks generally take a long time if you are doing them by yourself. I thought it was necessary to go to lecture because the notes helped a lot on the problem sets. Her lectures follow a logical progression through the topics. Overall a positive experience I definitely learned something in the process.
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Spring 2020 - I took Kadambi in Spring 2020 so it was completely online. He was a really fun and nice professor and his annotated slides are really good. He follows the philosophy of offering hard classes with easier/relaxed grading. The homework was pretty hard and I spent multiple days on it every week. But the midterm and final were actually easier than the HWs (median for the midterm was 91.5). He made both the midterm and final 24 hours long before the quarter even started. He does this because he sympathizes with the difficulty of the UC system compared to private schools (he went to Berkeley for undergrad and MIT for his PhD). Overall, really fun and cool professor and I personally would take this class with Kadambi again if I had to!
Spring 2020 - I took Kadambi in Spring 2020 so it was completely online. He was a really fun and nice professor and his annotated slides are really good. He follows the philosophy of offering hard classes with easier/relaxed grading. The homework was pretty hard and I spent multiple days on it every week. But the midterm and final were actually easier than the HWs (median for the midterm was 91.5). He made both the midterm and final 24 hours long before the quarter even started. He does this because he sympathizes with the difficulty of the UC system compared to private schools (he went to Berkeley for undergrad and MIT for his PhD). Overall, really fun and cool professor and I personally would take this class with Kadambi again if I had to!
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Fall 2018 - I really enjoyed this class with Kao. The concepts are really interesting, and he does a great job of explaining intuition and applications (including to his own research). He is very thorough and doesn't go too fast, and treats the subject with about as much mathematical rigor as you can without being in an actual math class. He created slides in advance, then annotated them in class and posted the annotated PDFs for us to download. I never had to refer to the textbook to understand the material. Kao is also very accommodating to students. He will move office hours, make corrections to materials, email quickly, and is always happy to look up the answer to a question if he does not know the answer already.
Fall 2018 - I really enjoyed this class with Kao. The concepts are really interesting, and he does a great job of explaining intuition and applications (including to his own research). He is very thorough and doesn't go too fast, and treats the subject with about as much mathematical rigor as you can without being in an actual math class. He created slides in advance, then annotated them in class and posted the annotated PDFs for us to download. I never had to refer to the textbook to understand the material. Kao is also very accommodating to students. He will move office hours, make corrections to materials, email quickly, and is always happy to look up the answer to a question if he does not know the answer already.
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The only good thing about his class was that the materials can be easily understood through self study. His WeePar and book are your best friends if you plan on missing all the lecture/discussion and still get a good grade. His jokes aren't that funny or subtle, like some previous posters have suggested...
The only good thing about his class was that the materials can be easily understood through self study. His WeePar and book are your best friends if you plan on missing all the lecture/discussion and still get a good grade. His jokes aren't that funny or subtle, like some previous posters have suggested...
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