At the start of the quarter I did not have the best impressions of Professor Chatterjee, as his slides were often very confusing and his assumption of our knowledge varied wildly. However, Chatterjee truly does care about his students in a way that I don't notice genuinely in other professors. He adapted the way he taught the course as the quarter went on and asked us multiple times to give him feedback on what was working for us (such as doing more practical problems as opposed to math theory). As far as grading goes, he is pretty lenient. The homework problems are graded for correctness, but he does give the answer to most of the problems in the problem set itself to help you. Sometimes it is hard to pay attention to lectures (especially at the beginning of the quarter), but if you want to do well it is a MUST to pay attention, as he will explicitly say what he will likely include on the midterm/quizzes/final. I starred the parts of my notes where he said this and I was prepared for 95% of the problems on every assessment (the other 5% was me being lazy for the first quiz and not doing what I suggest here). Overall, I do recommend taking this course with this teacher, you will surely learn a lot if you stick with it and communicate with Chatterjee.

P.S. I did not utilize professor office hours that much, although the one time I went when I had a pressing question he walked me through understanding what he expected of us (I did not go to TA office hours).

Chatterjee really cares about his students doing well. The issue is that he has good intentions, but the execution is not all there. His lectures from start to finish can be confusing and his lecture slides are a mess. It's easy to get lost in just one step as he tends to skip steps when doing problems. So, its best to stop him when he's doing the problem and ask him for clarification. Chatterjee will be the most helpful when you ask him to be, so don't shy away from asking questions in class cause he won't make anyone feel bad for asking a question. He assumes that we can see how he skipped like 8 steps and got to an answer, so watch out for that.

He won't solve problems in office hours, but DO go at least once. He talks about what's going to be on the quizzes, midterm, and final, sometimes in detail. He also does some derivations in Office Hours, which may seem useful at first, but then somehow pop back up again on exams, so just a heads up to write those down even if you don't understand where he's going with them.

My TA was super helpful and he went over problems in detail step by step during discussion and office hours, which proved to be really helpful. This class can get confusing cause there's so many methods you learn when solving diff. eqn's , and all the formulas get convoluted at times, so utilize discussions since my TA broke down how to identify which formula was best used to solve a problem depending on the type of diff eqn given.

Overall, Chatterjee is a nice professor who wants you to succeed, and if you take it upon yourself to communicate with him regarding any concerns you have, he will listen.

Super nice guy, solid professor. He really wants every student to succeed and even gives us his personal cell number at the start of the quarter. One homework assignment due each week, but they tended to be pretty long and kind of difficult. The quizzes were pretty easy. I didn't go to his office hours but apparently he basically went over the exact midterm and final problems. He did have a sign-in sheet that he passed around each class. Overall awesome guy and I would take this class with him again.

I took this class during winter quarter in 2019. The Professor is monotone and quite a few people fell asleep in class midway through lectures. He may not be the most engaging lecturer but he has a life’s worth of knowledge and wisdom. I wasn’t able to realize this until close to the end of the quarter when he cracked a few jokes. He even gave us some life advice to always find something to laugh about regardless of the situation in order to live a long and fulfilling life. In regards to the class, he gives homework (10%), 2 quizzes (10% each), a midterm (20%), and a final (50%). He gives a study guide before each quiz and exam so as long as you study the specific topics he outlines and understand the homework, you’ll be ready. Chaterjee does offer a second grading scheme that consists of just the final and homework categories in order to give you a final chance to do well in case you had trouble with the quizzes and midterm. The final was honestly not that bad and Chaterjee even said before hand it wouldn’t be too hard as he wanted to give the students a final chance to do well. Chaterjee is like a caring grandfather and I would highly recommend you take MAE 82 with him. Just work hard, do your part, and you will be successful!