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Sam Emaminejad
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Fall 2017 - Sam is a great professor. He cares a lot about making sure that all of his students fully understand the material. His lectures mainly consist of him teaching from slides, and deriving equations on the slides with chalk on the blackboard. He's not the most engaging lecturer, but he is very responsive and helpful in office hours/outside of lectures. Homework sets in this class were a mix of book problems and his problems that he created. They didn't take that long in comparison to other EE classes, so outside study is necessary to do well on his tests. Exams were tough, but not ridiculously tough. If you spend enough time studying, you will find that the questions are very fair. Sam is a very generous grader and takes an improvement score into account. So if you do poorly on his quiz and midterm, but do very well on his final, he will account for that. All in all, a great professor. One of the better professors in the EE department. I strongly recommend taking 101A with him.
Fall 2017 - Sam is a great professor. He cares a lot about making sure that all of his students fully understand the material. His lectures mainly consist of him teaching from slides, and deriving equations on the slides with chalk on the blackboard. He's not the most engaging lecturer, but he is very responsive and helpful in office hours/outside of lectures. Homework sets in this class were a mix of book problems and his problems that he created. They didn't take that long in comparison to other EE classes, so outside study is necessary to do well on his tests. Exams were tough, but not ridiculously tough. If you spend enough time studying, you will find that the questions are very fair. Sam is a very generous grader and takes an improvement score into account. So if you do poorly on his quiz and midterm, but do very well on his final, he will account for that. All in all, a great professor. One of the better professors in the EE department. I strongly recommend taking 101A with him.
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Winter 2022 - Depending on your major, you may have seen this content multiple times before taking this class. The lectures are pretty dry, but they're informative and usually a good match to what the exams will cover. He doesn't cover any practice problems, so the lectures are all just theory, which does find its way into the exams. The textbook is alright, but it's not exactly great for example problems so the released homework solutions are usually the best bet for studying for exams. The discussions also give out homework answers (before they're due) so those are worth attending if you have the time. They're also recorded if you can't bring yourself to go A lot of people freaked because there is little rhyme or reason to the difficulty of the midterms. I got wrecked by the 1st but did oddly well on the 2nd. The final was pretty hard though which is probably why I ended with a B+. But in any case, the exam questions are pretty reflective of the homework and lecture slides. No major surprises with this class. Just do the homework and look at the slides more than the textbook and it works out well enough. BTW what I've written applies mostly if he maintains the current course format (posted lecture recordings, non-mandatory discussions, open book zoom-monitored exams, etc)
Winter 2022 - Depending on your major, you may have seen this content multiple times before taking this class. The lectures are pretty dry, but they're informative and usually a good match to what the exams will cover. He doesn't cover any practice problems, so the lectures are all just theory, which does find its way into the exams. The textbook is alright, but it's not exactly great for example problems so the released homework solutions are usually the best bet for studying for exams. The discussions also give out homework answers (before they're due) so those are worth attending if you have the time. They're also recorded if you can't bring yourself to go A lot of people freaked because there is little rhyme or reason to the difficulty of the midterms. I got wrecked by the 1st but did oddly well on the 2nd. The final was pretty hard though which is probably why I ended with a B+. But in any case, the exam questions are pretty reflective of the homework and lecture slides. No major surprises with this class. Just do the homework and look at the slides more than the textbook and it works out well enough. BTW what I've written applies mostly if he maintains the current course format (posted lecture recordings, non-mandatory discussions, open book zoom-monitored exams, etc)
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