Professor
Edward Gao
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Spring 2019 - Gao is pretty good. MATLAB in itself is just very interesting. There is no midterm, just weekly projects. The projects imo are very good practices. He is also very happy to help with any questions you might have. Overall, he cares about his students and tries to present the material as clearly as possible.
Spring 2019 - Gao is pretty good. MATLAB in itself is just very interesting. There is no midterm, just weekly projects. The projects imo are very good practices. He is also very happy to help with any questions you might have. Overall, he cares about his students and tries to present the material as clearly as possible.
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Fall 2017 - This class reminded me of high school math classes. The material and workload aren't too bad, but it's really important that you're consistent with all the computations you're making and don't make mistakes. His lectures can be dry and based off the textbook, but I personally found going to lecture worth it. Definitely the most straightforward math class I've taken at UCLA.
Fall 2017 - This class reminded me of high school math classes. The material and workload aren't too bad, but it's really important that you're consistent with all the computations you're making and don't make mistakes. His lectures can be dry and based off the textbook, but I personally found going to lecture worth it. Definitely the most straightforward math class I've taken at UCLA.
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Fall 2020 - Take Gao! He is a very engaging and straightforward professor. However be warned--this class is very work heavy. We had lecture exercises, homework, and lab due pretty much every week along with the final project. The homework definitely took a long time because you had to do a lot of drawing and googling--not hard but just very tedious and took many hours. The labs were very helpful but also pretty time-consuming. The finals project took the most time by far--our report ended up being almost 100 pages. But overall, I learned a lot about Solidworks and the basics of engineering design. Gao explained things very well and taught a lot of concepts. As long as you do your work, you should get a good grade.
Fall 2020 - Take Gao! He is a very engaging and straightforward professor. However be warned--this class is very work heavy. We had lecture exercises, homework, and lab due pretty much every week along with the final project. The homework definitely took a long time because you had to do a lot of drawing and googling--not hard but just very tedious and took many hours. The labs were very helpful but also pretty time-consuming. The finals project took the most time by far--our report ended up being almost 100 pages. But overall, I learned a lot about Solidworks and the basics of engineering design. Gao explained things very well and taught a lot of concepts. As long as you do your work, you should get a good grade.
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