TC is the worst professor ever. He's like the one who guarantees to give you $2000 stimulus check but ended up not even giving $1400. He doesn't even write anything during a 2-hour long class and only expects you to watch 4 hours of his boring, low resolution past lecture videos and they just keep coming(20 hours worth of videos in one week).

May the God bless your soul when you are trying to understand him answering your questions. He'll always say everything is easy while skipping 200 steps. Honestly you will learn better and more in 171A than his garbage.

Pray to have a god-tier TAs(Stephen and Tyler) to help you if you are lucky or you'll end up more confused.

107 is a notoriously tough class, and it didn't help that Tsao wasn't very clear. His lectures use slides, but they're horribly organized. They're just a bunch of equations without any context, and that never really get explained.

For the homework, he gives you completed problems with part of the solution redacted, and you are left to fill in the blank. It's not that hard, but it's definitely time consuming.

The labs felt pretty unrelated to the class, and as long as you follow the instructions they're not that hard.

In terms of exams, we took 2 quizzes, 1 midterm and a final. The quizzes were very straightforward. The midterm and final were pretty difficult, but 40 points of each exam came from memorizing a page of facts. The memorized facts actually help with the class, and were the only reason that I learned anything.

Overall the class is pretty tough, but you just have to get through it.

This class was ok. Apparently TC is a much easier professor for 107 than the other profs. This showed as the average for the first midterm was an 87, which was quite high according to him. This class is quite complicated and can get very difficult fast. When he starts to introduce convolution is when things hit the fan and get hard. The subsequent topics are ridiculously hard. Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms are so hard. I personally did not learn much in lecture and did all the learning outside class with the TAs help. The textbook is quite convoluted so there is no point relying on that. His homework is quite easy and the lab reports are the same for every year so just get old ones. His final quite difficult but if you memorize the main results, you should be able to scrape by with a decent grade in the class. In all honesty, memorize the main results, which is just a summary of his main points itemized on a few slides. The main results in and of themselves account for 24% of your final grade. The quizzes are stressful but they are based entirely on the homeworks. The midterm is also mainly based on the homeworks and lecture slides. On the exams he tested us on circuit questions so make sure you know your EE100.

I had a difficult time following the instructor during lectures. Having not taken MAE 82, I struggled with catching on to mathematical concepts quickly. I did not feel as though lectures were entirely clear. I learned the most when the professor wrote examples or wrote what he was saying or began describing a concept from its basic facts. Overall I believe I learned a lot about LTI systems and see their value in engineering. Personally I do not feel as though I received much of an expertise to pursue this field in the future. The professor at least was very kind and opened up his office conveniently for students throughout the week. he also recognized the difficulty in concepts for students throughout the course and gave us HW/lab extensions as needed. I probably attended the most office hours I ever have attended since I started studying at UCLA because of this class, but I think I learned valuable information on how to connect math and mechanical engineering and electrical engineering concepts together.

Tsao is a very good lecturer. The lectures were not easy to follow if you don't have a good background in problem solving or understanding diffy Q's. I think this is one of the more intensive "math" related courses towards the middle of the MAE curriculum. He recorded lectures and post annotations online, so if you missed a class or wanted to revisit some point of the lecture you didn't understand, you can do so online. After attending all lectures and re-watching some parts of lectures, I think most students should have a clear idea of what is being presented. If you thought the course was confusing, it's either because you didn't ask Tsao any questions, you didn't go to lectures, you didn't watch the lectures again, you're lazy, or you just don't have a good engineering background.

The quizzes were not too bad, very straight forward. If you understood the lecture materials and could solve the homework problems, then you will be able to do well on the quiz.

The homeworks were okay, but I felt like I was swamped with assignments in the class. One week there was a 12 question problem set! But in the end, it was not too bad and you feel accomplished.

Labs were okay too. I think this year, the labs are more lenient because fewer students are exposed to MATLAB. Most of the code was written by the students, but sometimes the TAs gave out some of the code to do the lab. Both TAs did a good job explaining the theory of the lab, which is a reinforcement of the course material.

Final exam was okay too. 40% was on a solving diffy Q with impulse input and unit step input. I thought the course was interesting and is very useful in testing your engineering/math problem solving skills.