One aspect of this class that other reviewers might've forgotten about is that this class is extremely front loaded. The first few weeks are a *lot* of work. You have to take a quiz at 8 AM, watch the lecture, do the extremely challenging homework assignment, do a prelab, then a lab every single week for the first 4 weeks. However, after the first 4 weeks, it gets significantly easier. There are no longer required labs and prelabs meaning you only have the quiz and the homework to worry about each week. You get 5-6 weeks to work on the car although you could reasonably do the project within a week and over a 3-day weekend if you really have to cram it. Near the last 1-2 weeks, he dropped the homework and quizzes entirely to allow us to work on our cars which meant the workload became extremely light/next to none near the end.

That being said, I think class is too difficult for this to be an effective intro to EE. I don't mean this gading-wise as there is significant opportunity for extra credit and you will likely get an A even if you fail the quizzes, but the pacing is too fast for someone who has never done node voltage analysis, Thevenin's theorem, or other analog EE stuff before. For a CS analogy, it'd be like going from a "Hello world" on the first day to writing multithreaded programs by week 4. It's just too much too quickly for the first few weeks. Because of how quick the pacing is and how difficult the quizzes and homeworks are, it's reasonable that you might end up disliking EE altogether because you just get thrown into this.

The professor and the TAs themselves are actually quite nice and there are plenty of opportunities for office hours. He even gives you his phone number so you can literally text him for help outside of office hours or lecture if you need it. The homework is extremely challenging even though it's only one problem a week and you will need it to do it with a study group and/or get help from OH for it. The lectures are fine although he does not usually do worked examples of problems so it's hard to understand new techniques he introduces without seeing him work through it. He does talk slowly during the lectures so if there is an option of watching the recorded version, I'd opt for that instead. The final project is not too bad and the report is quite short (around 1-2 pages) so you get a lot of time to do it.

TL;DR Nice, helpful professor; class is front-loaded, goes from hard to easy; grading is easy but the pacing is too quick and the material is just dumped on you; final project isn't too bad and you get a lot of time for it.

I was curious about this class coming into it after having read the reviews. The consensus seems to be that it's super easy and so on, but I don't think that speaks to the content itself being easy. The grading scheme is what's easy. The final we had in fall 2021 had around a 60% average and was extremely tough, but it only gets weighted 5% while the project (the robot car you program) gets weighted 60%, and everyone gets 100% on the portion determining whether you had success, weighted 30% of the grade, and the other 30% is due to how good your project report is - and that's not hard to score high on either.
The practice problem sets and homeworks can be difficult, and though physics 1B isn't listed as a pre-req, Dr. Briggs assumes that you're familiar with much of its content anyway.

I don't think I learned much. It was easy to get an A, and I even failed half the quizzes and the final. The content was hard to grasp and his lectures are confusing for somebody who doesn't have prior circuit/EE experience and knowledge (esp. if you hadn't taken 1B and 1C prior).

Professor Briggs is old. He is unhelpful and disrespectful in office hours. He refused to help me with the homework and did not teach me anything. The class is easy and I was able to figure things out anyway. I got an A- because he gave me a C- on the final project report. The grading for this report is completely arbitrary and the instructions were unclear. This class is required and it shouldn't be too hard, but don't bother trying to get anything out of the professor. Figure it out with classmates or TAs.

Pretty straightforward class. That being said:

If you have no programming experience, get some before the class.
If you have limited physics experience, take 1B/1C before the class.

The class is basically a sampler class of EE things, though the quizzes were mostly circuits things. Not too difficult, but not so easy you can breeze through them without practice If you practice and do all the problems, you should have no problem with them.
Most of the grade is getting a car to follow a path. You can go as slow as you want. There's also a report thats pretty chill.
Overall, not a bad class to take over summer. It feels very slightly harder material-wise than other introductory classes I've taken, but the grading is lenient and overall the course is not challenging by any means. Briggs is a someone who genuinely seems excited about history and teaching. Even if I did not participate much myself, he always seemed nice when I did interact with him.

Briggs is a solid professor. His lectures are pretty straightforward, weekly quizzes were at 8am sharp which was rough but the quizzes themselves were objectively quite easy (averages usually near 100%). The lab sections were helpful, and homework assignments were decent for the most part (later homework assignments were a bit difficult). The main focus of this class is on the car project and PID control. Getting credit isn't too hard, but quite some time is required if you want a fast completion time for extra credit. Overall, I don't have much to say; Briggs is a decent teacher and the class is overall not too difficult if you put the time in.

Should have a prerequisite of Physics 1B and possibly CS30/31 (the main project involves simple code). Briggs actually didn't believe me when I told him Physics 1B was not a prerequisite for the class. Having never taken physics before, the material was difficult, but if you've taken Physics 1B then I'm pretty sure it would all be quite easy. The main project is essentially worth 60% of the grade, 30% for completing the project and 30% for the report, neither of which is very difficult. There were quizzes at the start of every class, which were not hard. Briggs is not an engaging speaker, so lectures move extremely slowly. I would not recommend taking it with him if you can avoid it. I would recommend Xin Li as a TA, if he's there.

I would highly recommend taking this class with professor Briggs. Even though his lectures were sometimes unorganized, they were really interesting and fun to watch. The only part that I didn't like was the weekly quizzes that he gave - even though those were extremely easy, having people attend 8am classes for a 15-minute quiz every single week was kind of redundant as he could've made those once every two weeks instead. The first half of this class was definitely more important than the rest since all of the quizzes were based on the materials taught in the first five weeks. Overall, this class was really enjoyable and I believe people would like it a lot.

Professor Briggs is a really caring and helpful professor. The class consisted of a few labs at the beginning, and a project and report for the rest of the quarter. The project was very straight forward, and the grading was generous. It consisted of having a car follow a path. Quizzes were given out during the first 15 minutes of lecture, and were very similar to the practice problems. The final was similar to this, and not too difficult.
The class had a little trouble transitioning to an online format, but Professor Briggs was a pretty good lecturer, and it was enjoyable.

Easy class with fun project. Dr.Briggs had a lot of technical difficulties during lectures and is may not be the best at giving zoom lectures. But the lecture content can be easily found online and self-taught. Mandatory 8am quizzes were hmm..... but just do what you gotta do to submit that answer by 8:15. The best way to prepare for quizzes and the final is to look at practice problems and solutions. if you're stuck to any degree on the project, get help from your TA - it'll be much faster than trying to figure it out yourself. Overall not difficult but also not exciting online but oh well it's another requirement for your major that you just have to deal with.

Do not hesitate to take EE 3 with Briggs. He is a very helpful professor and only wants his students to succeed. The classes had 8 or 9 quizzes, which were each one question long and based on the previous week's problem set material and straightforward. There's no midterm. Half the grade is the line following robot car, which pretty much everyone gets close to or 100 on. The final was a joke. Overall, easy class and helpful professor.