His lectures are great and very straight forward. He writes very clearly on the board. I think a lot of students found his tests a bit challenging though.

141 sounded interesting to me, but I realized that I didn't really like this class much. A lot of the stuff is very similar to 102. He was a good lecturer, and he actually assigns book problems (something I'm not used to anymore). That can either help you or screw you over. For me, it was a little bit of the latter. The MATLAB project we had to do at the end kinda sucked, especially since it had no relevance to material on the final. I heard Balakrishnan (sp?) teaches this class too, and I'm sure you've heard the infamous stories of him. Take this class with Tabuada if you need it.

Professor Tabuada is a very nice professor, but his voice is way too soft to be heard in the back of the classroom. In addition, his handwriting is pretty sloppy for us students to read at times (e.g. he writes his 1's like 2's and his x's like n's). He still delivers the material in an effective manner, but sometimes, he just glosses over points that turn out to be very important later on in the course.

One weird thing about him is that on exams, he doesn't let his TAs help him answer any questions because if a student has a question about the exam, he wants to make sure that the question is answered the way he wants it to be answered. The exams themselves is about half straightforward and half curveballs, but they're not too bad overall.

Also, it's important to realize that Tabuada does NOT curve, so knowing the averages and standard deviations on exams doesn't really give you an indicator of what your final grade will be.

Professor Tabuada is an extreme effective professor. He's organized, he does a good job explaining concepts, and he really wants to make sure that everybody understands. He doesn't grade on a true curve, but as long as you get at least a 87.5% on everything, you get an A. The tests are pretty fair and theres one midterm and final, but the MATLAB project was relatively confusing and he did not really help that much. You definitely want to read the assigned reading before lecture to fully understand the material in the class.

Professor Tabuada explains the material clearly. He really cares about students' understanding of the material. His project is a little bit tough so he is very willing to help you if you start the project early, so please start the project as soon as assigned so you would have time to ask equations. He expects students to understand the basic concept of the course so as long as you attend class and pay attention I promise you, you at least get B+.

An ok class. I felt like reading the book and attending discussions with an engaging TA was much better than attending lectures TBH...it's hard to read his handwriting and I got lost many times until I figured out what he was going on about from the readings. He posted his notes online but again the handwriting is not the best. Start the MATLAB project early since it is 20% of the grade. The midterm had weird modeling physics questions that was not in the homework. If you do the homework, project, and attempt the exams, you will pass. Overall 6/10.

He says the class is straight scale, but I feel like it's not. He must have a more lenient scale for final grades, because there's no way I could've gotten an A+ without it. He's a good lecturer but has bad handwriting, so definitely ask for clarification. Even though he posts his notes from lectures, it's kind of hard to decipher, so either ask someone who attended lecture or go to class lol. The homeworks are pretty fair, you'll have to use some MATLAB. (tbh i found MATLAB really helpful checking homework) The final project uses Simulink, and there's an extra credit project that combines ECE113 and ECE141 material. Definitely start on the final project early. Even though it's not that bad, the spec isn't very clear so you'll need a lot of clarification throughout the process. I didn't do the extra credit project personally, but many people did and said it wasn't too bad. His exams use wack physics concepts like remembering inductance, moment of inertia, and angular velocity, etc. They're not horrible, definitely do previous exams, the homework, and try to understand the material.

I thought I should have gotten a C+ but wound up with an A+, not quite sure how that happened.
-Do the final EC project
-The material you learn is pretty theoretical but its still an interesting class.

I took this class during Spring 2020, so COVID and stuff. 141 is overall an okay class. There's a bit of Physics 1A that you need to remember for the equations of motion (question on this on both midterm and final). I would consider that everything in this class is challenging, but doable. The final project for us was modelling coronavirus in Simulink (very apt for this quarter), which I thought was pretty doable for a final project. The only thing that saves ur grade for this class is his very generous grading curve. You only need an 87.5% to get an A, a 81.25% for an A-, and a 75% for a B. However, we didn't have the EC project that other classes seemed to have

I found 141 to be an interesting class, especially as we neared the end and a shift in focus to design explained why we chose to study these topics. That said, I wish that shift had come earlier. The pace of the class felt very slow, although that didn't correspond to a solid understanding of what we were doing until I started watching youtube videos (all hail, Brian Douglas).
Tabuada was solid - could be a bit hard to follow, and frequently spoke without writing, but he made sense, he did examples, he didn't move to fast, and his grading was incredibly lenient (at least with this set of TA's). Would recommend.
HW was super helpful for understanding what we were working on in class, and the final project was interesting and relevant to COVID, but also painful in the number of approximations (that made little sense outside the scope of the project) you had to make for it to be manageable.