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Sudhakar Pamarti
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Winter 2020 - I am currently taking his class. Professor Pamarti is a very impressive person. He is a great lecturer. He both circuit-theoretically and mathematically compensates students' lack of concept. I personally found very flawless. He is opened to students and clearly answers to questions of students as if he knew what we were going to ask. So students in lecture (probably) thoroughly learn about concept. No mystery left after lectures. He is also responsible. He answers to the most of questions showing up in Piazza at very late night. I wonder how he keeps himself so sharp with the lack of sleep. He respects the students. He somehow makes the students feel better who stand out to ask a question they might think themselves it is a stupid question. He likewise encourages students to communicate with him. Time by time, he also boosts up students attention as he comes up with interesting real applications. I didn't know that this old theory can be such useful and still fundamentally used in modern age. They are so fascinating. Then I am many times motivated to study this. So if your characteristic is similar to mine, you would often feel glad you learn from him. The midterm however was personally difficult to score good. For circuit theory, I recently felt it may be students' task to retain what we got from the lectures and study to apply concepts to solve various problems. (I later realized haha) I might not be satisfied my grade this quarter. I wouldn't feel so bad because I know I bring a myriad of things from this course and I found this subject very interesting by this. Now I like circuit theory, which I used to feel boring. I am enjoying working on the homework problem sets. Above all, I can say it is very worth to take Professor Pamarti's course if you are at ucla.
Winter 2020 - I am currently taking his class. Professor Pamarti is a very impressive person. He is a great lecturer. He both circuit-theoretically and mathematically compensates students' lack of concept. I personally found very flawless. He is opened to students and clearly answers to questions of students as if he knew what we were going to ask. So students in lecture (probably) thoroughly learn about concept. No mystery left after lectures. He is also responsible. He answers to the most of questions showing up in Piazza at very late night. I wonder how he keeps himself so sharp with the lack of sleep. He respects the students. He somehow makes the students feel better who stand out to ask a question they might think themselves it is a stupid question. He likewise encourages students to communicate with him. Time by time, he also boosts up students attention as he comes up with interesting real applications. I didn't know that this old theory can be such useful and still fundamentally used in modern age. They are so fascinating. Then I am many times motivated to study this. So if your characteristic is similar to mine, you would often feel glad you learn from him. The midterm however was personally difficult to score good. For circuit theory, I recently felt it may be students' task to retain what we got from the lectures and study to apply concepts to solve various problems. (I later realized haha) I might not be satisfied my grade this quarter. I wouldn't feel so bad because I know I bring a myriad of things from this course and I found this subject very interesting by this. Now I like circuit theory, which I used to feel boring. I am enjoying working on the homework problem sets. Above all, I can say it is very worth to take Professor Pamarti's course if you are at ucla.
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Fall 2018 - I really disliked Pamarti. Probably the worst professor I've ever had. Every time I see a picture of him I start reaching for the toilet paper to wipe the shit off my monit- oh wait that's Pamarti. He's just the biggest asshole of all time. Here's a conversation I had with him: Me: So why didn't I get any points for this question? My setup equations are correct, but I put the R in the numerator instead of the denominator. P (interrupting loudly): Yes, your setup is correct. I can give you three points (out of 40) for that. Your answer is wrong though. Me: My answer would be right if I put R in the denominator. Even with my wrong setup, though, all my followup algebra is correct. P: That's true, but your answer isn't right. You just don't understand the fundamentals. You shouldn't even have done the math, I don't know why you did. You need to go back and learn the basics. Me (somewhat confused): I was just trying to show my thought process. P (interrupting again): Yes, but your thought process is wrong. I won't give points for wrong work, even if it's correct work. And I'm just like ?????????????????? Fuck this guy
Fall 2018 - I really disliked Pamarti. Probably the worst professor I've ever had. Every time I see a picture of him I start reaching for the toilet paper to wipe the shit off my monit- oh wait that's Pamarti. He's just the biggest asshole of all time. Here's a conversation I had with him: Me: So why didn't I get any points for this question? My setup equations are correct, but I put the R in the numerator instead of the denominator. P (interrupting loudly): Yes, your setup is correct. I can give you three points (out of 40) for that. Your answer is wrong though. Me: My answer would be right if I put R in the denominator. Even with my wrong setup, though, all my followup algebra is correct. P: That's true, but your answer isn't right. You just don't understand the fundamentals. You shouldn't even have done the math, I don't know why you did. You need to go back and learn the basics. Me (somewhat confused): I was just trying to show my thought process. P (interrupting again): Yes, but your thought process is wrong. I won't give points for wrong work, even if it's correct work. And I'm just like ?????????????????? Fuck this guy
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Winter 2020 - For this class you basically need to show up every 3 weeks to perform a demo, the professor itself is not that much of help but you should be aware who's your TA, because your TA is the one that can help you with labs and reports reports, I recommend H. Hojaji. Overall it was one of the easiest lab classes I took, even easier than lower division physic or chem labs.
Winter 2020 - For this class you basically need to show up every 3 weeks to perform a demo, the professor itself is not that much of help but you should be aware who's your TA, because your TA is the one that can help you with labs and reports reports, I recommend H. Hojaji. Overall it was one of the easiest lab classes I took, even easier than lower division physic or chem labs.
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Fall 2019 - This class was a bit strange, since the exams were both open-note and open-book. However, the exams were fairly challenging, especially because lectures were focused on derivations and not applications of the knowledge, and the exams were focused on application. The median for the midterm was 64% and the median for the final was 59%. I believe the median translates to approximately a B in the class. There is weekly homework, and each problem is graded for correctness. Sometimes, he would create his own problems and those were significantly more difficult than textbook problems. The professor consistently went overtime each lecture by 5-10 minutes, which is not ideal when you have another class immediately after. Fortunately, notes are uploaded online.
Fall 2019 - This class was a bit strange, since the exams were both open-note and open-book. However, the exams were fairly challenging, especially because lectures were focused on derivations and not applications of the knowledge, and the exams were focused on application. The median for the midterm was 64% and the median for the final was 59%. I believe the median translates to approximately a B in the class. There is weekly homework, and each problem is graded for correctness. Sometimes, he would create his own problems and those were significantly more difficult than textbook problems. The professor consistently went overtime each lecture by 5-10 minutes, which is not ideal when you have another class immediately after. Fortunately, notes are uploaded online.
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A damn passionate man. It's pretty difficult to encounter a professor who is very passionate about his field (well, they are probably passionate but they don't know how to convey it). Pamarti is definitely one of those who can really ignite that burning EE flame within you. Lectures are what like other people said. Very effective, engaging, and easy to follow. He does go overboard in covering some very basic material but I liked it because sometimes, I forget the most basic things and covering it again just reminds me what happened. He didn't seem all that disappointed in going it over again. It's just that some of us were a bit shy in asking because he kind of implicitly give that "judging" vibe. Homework and tests were rough. Very challenging, nothing like the lecture. It's like in class, you learn how to write simple sentences (e.g. "I love to eat apples." or "I love to eat apples because they are healthy.") and then come homework and tests, it becomes a gigantic research essay on the history of apples combined with a philosophical discussion of the meaning of apple and a lengthy footnote explanation of the health benefits of an apple. Indeed, I exaggerate but the homework and tests are difficult and challenge you to think intuitively. Not sure how he curves/grades but I ended up with C+ and C on EE10 and EE110 respectively with Pamarti. I am definitely not the brightest bulb around the engineering school but I felt taking these two foundation EE classes with Pamarti was hella worth it. Take him if you can!!
A damn passionate man. It's pretty difficult to encounter a professor who is very passionate about his field (well, they are probably passionate but they don't know how to convey it). Pamarti is definitely one of those who can really ignite that burning EE flame within you. Lectures are what like other people said. Very effective, engaging, and easy to follow. He does go overboard in covering some very basic material but I liked it because sometimes, I forget the most basic things and covering it again just reminds me what happened. He didn't seem all that disappointed in going it over again. It's just that some of us were a bit shy in asking because he kind of implicitly give that "judging" vibe. Homework and tests were rough. Very challenging, nothing like the lecture. It's like in class, you learn how to write simple sentences (e.g. "I love to eat apples." or "I love to eat apples because they are healthy.") and then come homework and tests, it becomes a gigantic research essay on the history of apples combined with a philosophical discussion of the meaning of apple and a lengthy footnote explanation of the health benefits of an apple. Indeed, I exaggerate but the homework and tests are difficult and challenge you to think intuitively. Not sure how he curves/grades but I ended up with C+ and C on EE10 and EE110 respectively with Pamarti. I am definitely not the brightest bulb around the engineering school but I felt taking these two foundation EE classes with Pamarti was hella worth it. Take him if you can!!
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Had 115c in Spring of 2012. GREAT professor. Class was 8am and he was very understanding about it. Podcasted and slides. Homework was a little hard to get started on but the TA (Vikrant, who isnt at UCLA anymore) was ridiculously helpful. The professor is helpful at OH as well. At the end the HW wasnt bad at all - if you get stuck go to OH. Exams were very similar to the HW. If you actually did the HW then the exams shouldnt be anything to stress about (can have slides during exams too). The project was really easy but i think it's because the TA made it so. The TA also help extra OH in the computer labs so he helped a bunch of people through it too. It was a group project (2 people). If you can, take him.
Had 115c in Spring of 2012. GREAT professor. Class was 8am and he was very understanding about it. Podcasted and slides. Homework was a little hard to get started on but the TA (Vikrant, who isnt at UCLA anymore) was ridiculously helpful. The professor is helpful at OH as well. At the end the HW wasnt bad at all - if you get stuck go to OH. Exams were very similar to the HW. If you actually did the HW then the exams shouldnt be anything to stress about (can have slides during exams too). The project was really easy but i think it's because the TA made it so. The TA also help extra OH in the computer labs so he helped a bunch of people through it too. It was a group project (2 people). If you can, take him.
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