Professor
Kunihiko Taira
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2020 - This was taken during COVID. Sam was a great lecturer, and really cares a lot about his students. This class comes with a preface of being one of the hardest Mech&AE undergrad courses, but it actually wasn't that bad. Sam really makes sure that you learn everything you need to know. He is extremely helpful in office hours, and his office hours often helped me much more in 15 minutes that the entire discussion session did (and I felt our TA was also really good). The one downside to this class is the workload. Sam likes to assign hard problems for homework and these homeworks took up more time than homework from any other class. With that said, his midterm and final had questions that were similar to the homeworks, but often made to take much less time. I didn't feel unprepared when it came to the midterm and final.
Fall 2020 - This was taken during COVID. Sam was a great lecturer, and really cares a lot about his students. This class comes with a preface of being one of the hardest Mech&AE undergrad courses, but it actually wasn't that bad. Sam really makes sure that you learn everything you need to know. He is extremely helpful in office hours, and his office hours often helped me much more in 15 minutes that the entire discussion session did (and I felt our TA was also really good). The one downside to this class is the workload. Sam likes to assign hard problems for homework and these homeworks took up more time than homework from any other class. With that said, his midterm and final had questions that were similar to the homeworks, but often made to take much less time. I didn't feel unprepared when it came to the midterm and final.