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Mahmood Heyrat
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Winter 2016 - This class is a very bad joke that the EE department plays on it's students. 11L is the biggest waste of time per unit, primarily because of the pointlessly long lab reports. Mahmood is worse than a bad TA: heavy accent, unorganized "lectures" and talks at you rather than to you. His quizzes are the most poorly written things I've ever had the displeasure of taking, with typos and vague questions galore. He has the TA's be in charge of lab so I seriously wonder why this man is even getting paid by UCLA. If you do you have the misfortune to take 11L with Mahmood, when it's 4AM the day that lab is due and you're on page 30 of your lab report, just remember that at the end of the day that it's one unit so spend your time on other more important classes.
Winter 2016 - This class is a very bad joke that the EE department plays on it's students. 11L is the biggest waste of time per unit, primarily because of the pointlessly long lab reports. Mahmood is worse than a bad TA: heavy accent, unorganized "lectures" and talks at you rather than to you. His quizzes are the most poorly written things I've ever had the displeasure of taking, with typos and vague questions galore. He has the TA's be in charge of lab so I seriously wonder why this man is even getting paid by UCLA. If you do you have the misfortune to take 11L with Mahmood, when it's 4AM the day that lab is due and you're on page 30 of your lab report, just remember that at the end of the day that it's one unit so spend your time on other more important classes.
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DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. First of all his examples and problems he does in class are nothing similar to what you see on the midterms and final. To do well in his class you need to understand his material at a level of an electrical engineer. But this is EE for NON-EE majors. It seems easy at first but towards the end he will squeeze in so much material that you will not have time to get comfortable with it before taking the final and then you're $#%!ed. Also really read the book and go to discussion and office hours. DO NOT rely on the lectures alone to teach you the material. He also has an accent. Its not bad but its apparent. do yourself a favor and avoid him in the future.
DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. First of all his examples and problems he does in class are nothing similar to what you see on the midterms and final. To do well in his class you need to understand his material at a level of an electrical engineer. But this is EE for NON-EE majors. It seems easy at first but towards the end he will squeeze in so much material that you will not have time to get comfortable with it before taking the final and then you're $#%!ed. Also really read the book and go to discussion and office hours. DO NOT rely on the lectures alone to teach you the material. He also has an accent. Its not bad but its apparent. do yourself a favor and avoid him in the future.
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Professor Heyrat is okay. Easy quizzes (but you should still take them seriously since they are 30% of your grade) and easy grading of pre-labs (full score 20/20 most of the time even if you just complete the pre-lab even if its wrong) earn him two thumbs up. Other than that, he blazes through the explanation of the experiment and leaves you on your own, which I guess can be good because then you can get out of the lab faster, but if you sort of bs'd the pre-lab you'll maybe have some difficulties with the lab without much of an explanation as sometimes the procedure he wants you to do differs from the procedure he has you print out to bring to class (which occasionally differs from the lab manual). He does come by occasionally to ask how you're doing on the lab, so I guess that's kinda nice. My TA in the Spring 2012 quarter was Ramy and he was a bad ass, just be sure to have him double check all of your data when you reach certain points of your experiment and not the professor (who will just sign off on it without looking at anything, which might lead to points deducted on your lab report for bad data). As long as your data looks okay to him and your lab report's error analysis isn't complete crap, he'll likely give you a full score or nearly a full score. Other than that, I *think* the class is just graded on a straight scale (90% = A-, 80% B- etc) so as long as you study a little for the quizzes you should get an A.
Professor Heyrat is okay. Easy quizzes (but you should still take them seriously since they are 30% of your grade) and easy grading of pre-labs (full score 20/20 most of the time even if you just complete the pre-lab even if its wrong) earn him two thumbs up. Other than that, he blazes through the explanation of the experiment and leaves you on your own, which I guess can be good because then you can get out of the lab faster, but if you sort of bs'd the pre-lab you'll maybe have some difficulties with the lab without much of an explanation as sometimes the procedure he wants you to do differs from the procedure he has you print out to bring to class (which occasionally differs from the lab manual). He does come by occasionally to ask how you're doing on the lab, so I guess that's kinda nice. My TA in the Spring 2012 quarter was Ramy and he was a bad ass, just be sure to have him double check all of your data when you reach certain points of your experiment and not the professor (who will just sign off on it without looking at anything, which might lead to points deducted on your lab report for bad data). As long as your data looks okay to him and your lab report's error analysis isn't complete crap, he'll likely give you a full score or nearly a full score. Other than that, I *think* the class is just graded on a straight scale (90% = A-, 80% B- etc) so as long as you study a little for the quizzes you should get an A.
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