Classmates complained a lot about how he jumps around a lot which he does; but the material isn't difficult to the point where you can't follow when he does jump around so in my opinion these people are just weak. He also shares a lot of stories where he applied what he's teaching us at the moment. It really is just sum of forces and moments for the entire class; practice problems in 3D before the midterm and you'll be fine especially deflection for the final.

Professor Gupta is a HORRIBLE lecturer. He's really disorganized, jumping around from example to example without clearly stating/writing down what the subject matter is. He mumbled a lot, and the fact that he did not use a microphone exacerbated my frustration because I honestly had no idea what went on during the lectures. The homework and the worksheets obtained from discussion taught me most of the material for this class, so definitely do them and make sure you know how to do the problems. The midterms were pretty simple so as long as you know your stuff, you should be able to ace them. As for the final, he told us that it would be cumulative, but in actuality, it was mostly on material that he went over in the last 2 weeks (that he did not give homework on). I feel like Professor Gupta had a very YOLO approach towards his duties as a professor; he decided on his midterm dates a week before, and he cut his final lecture short, telling us that as long as we knew that the sum of the forces and moment was zero, we'd be fine...

TAKE THIS CLASS WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

Absolutely a terrible professor. He spoke very quietly and refused to use a microphone, was difficult to understand, and rarely presented any worthwhile information during lectures. I learned much more from reading through the textbook than I did attending class. He was also terribly unprepared and did not finalize the date of either of the midterms until roughly a week beforehand. The midterms were fairly straightforward, but the final was very difficult. Even though he told us that he was against difficult exams because they do not effectively test what we have learned, the final was completely out of left field.

Please take this class with someone else.

His lectures are very boring. He just solves example problems and doesn't spend much time on concepts. The beginning of the class is basic physics but wake up when he starts doing like screws and stuff. I managed by reading the book for the exam. Its a pretty basic class. Just understand the fundamental concepts and thats F=ma is what the class is about.

Learned more by myself than I did with him. Asked how exams were graded and he refused to answer...which basically sums up the mysterious course grading. Course was all over the place but not difficult.

I've read the reviews on here that say he is a good professor but honestly I didn't think his class was that great. The lectures were a constant battle for me trying to stay awake so if he's a good professor I'm really not looking forward to seeing what the bad ones are like.

The first midterm was not bad, second one was terrible, and final was horrible. I thought I'd failed the class after that but somehow ended up with a B+ so I guess he's a pretty generous grader.

I felt like he rushed through the material at the end of the class and tried to cram way too much in at once. I also remember that he tested us on stuff that we never had homework problems on which was frustrating.

I really didn't like how he would teach us a concept and then expect us to be able to absorb it immediately and be able to see all the different ways that concept could be applied to other things like biomechanics. Also, he really wants people to go to lecture so he often put stuff on the exams that he'd mentioned once in a lecture or some strange example he did in class and expect us to remember it. Even if you did go to lecture you might have been asleep or you might have accidentally skipped that example when studying so I didn't think that was very fair. If he wants people to come to lecture then maybe he should make them more interesting.