Professor
Steve Margulis
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Spring 2020 - This class was awesome. It's almost entirely Matlab, but you don't actually write most of the code, you just use functions given by the textbook. Margulis was a great professor, super clear and helpful. Especially since the quarter was so messed up (COVID), he did a great job of moving everything online.
Spring 2020 - This class was awesome. It's almost entirely Matlab, but you don't actually write most of the code, you just use functions given by the textbook. Margulis was a great professor, super clear and helpful. Especially since the quarter was so messed up (COVID), he did a great job of moving everything online.
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Fall 2019 - Margulis is a phenomenal professor. He built this class (CEE 150) from the ground up, even going so far as to write his own textbook (a PDF he provides to you for free) as well as a MATLAB hydrology model called MOD-WET that you use for each homework. He is a great lecturer and explains the material thoroughly, and is very approachable and happy to answer questions both in and out of class. The homework incorporates MATLAB and is pretty time consuming. Because it is thorough, though, it gives you opportunities to explore each of the concepts he covers in lecture, plotting hydrologic values over time and space and seeing what factors influence them. Kind of like M20 in the sense that you often plot value and must explain their behavior. His exams are, again, very well-written, and he doesn't surprise you with anything. As long as you know how to do the homework, you should be go to go. Overall, very well-developed course from a great prof., can be tedious but you learn a lot. Couldn't ask for anything better!
Fall 2019 - Margulis is a phenomenal professor. He built this class (CEE 150) from the ground up, even going so far as to write his own textbook (a PDF he provides to you for free) as well as a MATLAB hydrology model called MOD-WET that you use for each homework. He is a great lecturer and explains the material thoroughly, and is very approachable and happy to answer questions both in and out of class. The homework incorporates MATLAB and is pretty time consuming. Because it is thorough, though, it gives you opportunities to explore each of the concepts he covers in lecture, plotting hydrologic values over time and space and seeing what factors influence them. Kind of like M20 in the sense that you often plot value and must explain their behavior. His exams are, again, very well-written, and he doesn't surprise you with anything. As long as you know how to do the homework, you should be go to go. Overall, very well-developed course from a great prof., can be tedious but you learn a lot. Couldn't ask for anything better!
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Really good professor. He is incredibly fair and will NOT ask you random questions on exams. Margulis is very organized and he gives very thorough notes so you will always know exactly what to study. How well you do is simply a matter of how much time you're willing to put into studying. The homework can get lengthy at times, but if you can do it on your own, you're pretty much set. Every homework has some matlab in it (and homework is worth a LOT), so either know it well, or find a classmate that does. Margulis is a great guy, and is very patient and soft-spoken. Take advantage of his office hours because he's probably one of the nicest professors we have at UCLA. I took CEE 150 with him as well, and all of the comments above also apply. I recommend you take 150 if you're interested at all in water resources because you learn a lot of interesting things that you may not get from your general required classes.
Really good professor. He is incredibly fair and will NOT ask you random questions on exams. Margulis is very organized and he gives very thorough notes so you will always know exactly what to study. How well you do is simply a matter of how much time you're willing to put into studying. The homework can get lengthy at times, but if you can do it on your own, you're pretty much set. Every homework has some matlab in it (and homework is worth a LOT), so either know it well, or find a classmate that does. Margulis is a great guy, and is very patient and soft-spoken. Take advantage of his office hours because he's probably one of the nicest professors we have at UCLA. I took CEE 150 with him as well, and all of the comments above also apply. I recommend you take 150 if you're interested at all in water resources because you learn a lot of interesting things that you may not get from your general required classes.
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