I took this class because I thought it would be a cool elective with a pretty lenient grading scheme. But I ended up finding the material for this class to be pretty dry and uninteresting. For the most part this class is pretty mathematical and abstract. If you liked stuff like 102 or 113 maybe this class is for you. But if you like classes more grounded in application and less about mathematical theory you're probably gonna be disappointed.

That being said, the grading for this class did end up being pretty lenient. Don't take this to mean the class itself is easy though. The material isn't a cakewalk to understand, and the exams (especially the final) were kinda rough, and easy to mess up on. Be ready to tackle seemingly random physics questions on the exams too. The homeworks also tended to be rather confusing and would take a while.

Lastly, Tabuada as a professor is pretty helpful and very receptive to answering any questions students have. He even does MATLAB demos, which pretty much no other EE professor does. However, his lectures aren't particularly engaging, and they can be pretty hard to follow at times. His handwriting is also kind of confusing and not easy to make sense of, so that doesn't help much. Ultimately, I didn't find lectures sufficient to understand the material, so watching youtube videos and looking over homework solutions is what ended up getting me through it.

Overall, an average class. I didn't really enjoy it, but there are worse classes you could take.

Prof. Tabuada is very nice and funny. He covers up to frequency compensation and a brief introduction to digital control, which I've heard is less than teachers such as Shoarinejad. He explains the material carefully and logically, and takes questions and is pretty funny. His handwriting can be a bit hard to read occasionally, as he write on a tablet. The grading scale is very generous. I dont think his tests were incredibly hard. The frequency compensation stuff was pretty confusing though. Definitely take this class if you are into circuits, since circuit design of feedback amplifiers are very important. Highly reccomend.

This class is not that hard to get an A in, but that does not mean the class is easy. He doesn't have a curve and grades on a straight scale. The performance of your peers does not affect your grade. Tabuada's lectures are not that helpful because he doesn't explain things well. I suggest not even going to class and then watching YouTube videos instead. Often I would go to class and get very confused, then ended up watching YouTube videos. Watching videos from these channels was enough to substitute going to class.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmK1EnKxphikZ4mmCz2NccSnHZb7v1wV-

https://www.youtube.com/user/ControlLectures/videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWPirh4EWFpGpH_Rb6Q4iQ6vGGRA6MORZ

Homeworks okay. There are solutions, but the solutions are often unclear. I got full credit on all homework except the first one where I got marked off a few points. Maybe the grader was hard for that one. The project is okay. I got full credit on that one. There was also an extra credit assignment for people who were also in or already took EC ENGR 113, but it didn't really need EC ENGR 113 since the only EC ENGR 113 part was just using a filter function to take noise out of a wave. I got 5/5 on that and boosted my grade 5%. So if my raw score percentage grade was 85, it would now be 90 after the extra credit. I believe this is the first time he offered extra credit.

Exams are hard, but are predictable for the most part as long as you do his past exams. It often involves modeling a differential equation, which he doesn't cover that well and give much practice on. Just do his past exams and then they grade pretty generously and give lots of partial credit. You only need like an 80% average on the exams (assuming you don't do the extra credit) to get an A as long as you get mostly full credit on everything else.

141 is an interesting class with many cool topics covered. However, Tabuada's lectures can often be confusing and unclear, and it was usually more helpful to read the textbook for the relevant section. If I were to take it again, I would definitely wait to take this class with another professor.