Electrical and Computer Engineering

4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Mo-Yuen Chow
ECE491/592 Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Tom Conte
ECE218 Computer Organization and Microprocessors.

• "Really knows the material, and can teach it. A very difficult professor, but you really learn a lot."
• Spring98 "My grade in the class was A.
  Knows his material extermely well, is a very good teacher, but will ride for being late ever. However, his tests, homeworks and everything are all extremely fair."

4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Paul D. Franzon
ECE342 Design of Complex Digital Systems.

• "Dr. Franzon is one of the best teachers I have had. He gives excellent examples and even tells jokes periodically in class. He is always willing to change due dates and set back some tests (and even give make up tests) to benifit the class. He has a repuation of curving down grades at the end of the semester, but with all the breaks he gives you with the assignments during the semester, I think that it would be resonable. He is very personable, and very knowledgable of the material."
• Spring99 "My grade in the class was A.
  Dr Franzon is quite knowlegdeable about the class material. He provides you best support to do well in your labs, hws and final. He has good sense of humour and always encourage you to aim for higher education. He also sends you job oppurtunities which are very helpful for graduating students."

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Ed Gehringer
  ECE506 Digital Systems Architecture. CSC517, CSC506

  • "Keep as far awayfrom him as possible. Avoid any contact, he's terrible as a teacher and very notorious in it too!"
  • "Lousiest prof I've come across. Guaranteed to drain any interest you may have in the subject. Don't expect anything good from him!"
  • "Never take CSC 517 under him unless you do not need him to pass the course !. He has absolutely no capability as a teacher and has minimal knowledge in his field. Amazing they tenured him !!"
  • "Yuck! I don't even want to think about him! take a course with him, & you'll feel the same... -GUARANTEED!"
  • "I took the class in Fall 1999. I give this teacher a 0 out of 4, my grade in the class was B.
    If you want to learn anything, don't bother with this guy. You don't have to do any work to make a B though. Only thing I learned is that Smalltalk sucks. "

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) T. H. Glisson
  ECE301 Linear Systems.

  • "Dr. Glisson gives very representative lectures. He is very strict about starting class on time,and if you are late, you are bound to miss something. He doesn't talk too loud, so it's to your advantage to get to class on time and get a good seat. His tests are somewhat difficult, but they are representative of the notes."
  • Spring98 "Most students find his class very frustrating. (Especially Computer Engineers). His tests do not relate to his lectures or the homework. He is a soft and monotone speaker. It is difficult to learn anything practical in this class and you are not rewarded for your work. He did not allow us to turn in our calculations for partial credit on the last test or final exam. Also, most tests were curved about 30 points to get a reasonable class average. His saving grace is that he seems to be a pretty nice guy, but he just doesn't teach well."
  • Spring99 "My grade in the class was C.
    I think Glisson is a good teacher. He IS quite soft spoken but his homework and lectures are well represenative of the material on the tests. However, doing and understanding the homework is a necessary part of the class. He gives very accurate outlines of his tests and tells you exactly what he expects you to do. Working everything out in symbols before you plug in numbers is constantly stressed as is "dimentionally correct expressions" However if you get through a problem like he wants you to, the partial credit is generous even if you make basic algebra and computational errors."
  • Spring99 ece301 "My grade in the class was B.
    Great professor, very interesting if you listen to him. Knows everything there is to know about communications and signals. Tests are not given partial credit, but as long as you can *visualize* what's going on you'll do fine. Class is more about visualizing than math. Do the homework and Visualize signals!!!"

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Dr. Grainger
  ECE221

  • Fall97 "Very good lecturer. Very hard tests, but he curves tests if the class average is too low. Cares about his students, but it is still a very difficult class."
  • Fall97 ECE211 "Only an average lecturer, but really cares about students. Good sense of humor makes class enjoyable."
  • Spring99 ECE211 "My grade in the class was A+.
    Dr Grainger is a very dedicated professor. He walks you through the class material slowly and carefully. He cares a lot about his students' understanding of the class material as well as their grades. Besides, he is a very nice gentleman."

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) John R. Hauser
  ECE211 Electric Circuits I

  "Not bad if you can keep up with the math. Very good about taking questions during a lecture and explains well if a student doesn't understand."

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Sonetra Howard
  ECE212 Fundamentals of Logic Design.

  "She expects you to be experts in the material before the first day of class. Hard Tests, but gives mucho partial credit. I wouldn't recommend her"

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Peter K. McLarty
  ECE211 Electric Circuits I

  • "He has a simple and direct approach and does answer questions"
  • Fall97 "knoledgable, extremely talented at teaching, easy grader"

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Tom Morrell
  

  Fall97 "very lazy; poor lecturer; difficult tests"

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Carl Osborne
  ECE211

  "Gives good examples in class,but to fast to do anything other than copy it down"
  

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Hatice Omul ÷zt¸rk
  ECE314 Electronic Circuits

  "She teaches the material well and gives fair tests but she does not give a lot of partial credit. The homework for the class is difficult but not too time consuming."
  

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Wesley Snyder
  ECE212

  "Dr. Snyder is an ill-prepared, boring, and scatter-brained lecturer. He rarely makes his own tests, but when he does, they are completely random and poorly written. Although I made an A+ in his class, it had nothing to do with his teaching. I learned the material because I happened to have an excellent lab instructor and by doing hours of homework sets. The only upshot is that Dr. Snyder wants to give you a good grade to make himself look better as he advances his career. Unfortunately, he has accumulated so many job titles that he has little time left to worry about teaching."

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Dorothy Strickland
  

  Fall97 "Poor lecturer; unprepared; lacks understanding of material; bad teacher; careless grader"

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) JP Thrower
  ECE331

  "He makes it fun to go to class. Circuits is one thing that I despise and I have been dreading it since I came to State. But, I actually enjoyed his class. VERY fair grading and understands what you need to know and only makes you know that."

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) H. Joel Trussell
  ECE301 Linear Systems

  "He is an excellent professor."
  

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Mark White
  ECE218 Computer Organization and Microprocessors.

  • "His class is fairly easy if you learn from the book(I never go to class), but he's a pretty flakey teacher. He rambles on tangents a lot and seems to contradict himself sometimes. He grades tests pretty strictly, but I think he curves them, too. He covers little useful information and is vague in assignments. Once, he spent 15 minutes of an exam period alphabetizing the class for appearent reason."
  • "He seems to be an okay guy who is generally concerned with students learning from his class but he tends to ramble about things which may be useful once we are all engineers but aren't really significant now. The ramblings take valuable time away from his lectures and leaves the student on his own to prepare for the test. He posts his notes on the web but he uses a format which takes up so much memory you can't even print it out. In class when he does cover material he never emphasizes the things which will comprise a majority of the test. Its very frustrating and unfair to receive very poor lectures and then get slammed with a difficult exam. This Professor will cause you to drop your average and leave you feeling as though you know absolutely nothing about assembly language even though you ace the labs and understand the textbook."
  • Fall 97, ece218 - "Dr. White is obviously a brilliant man that knows his discipline. However, he is sadly a pitiful teacher with no seeming ablility to impart knowledge of this material to students. He teaches from a platform of assuming that all students are excellent programmers, without any consideration to the fact that this is tediously difficult course material. WARNING: Stay away from his section. To improve his course, Dr. White should give less involved programs and routines so people can learn the basics without being overwhelmed. His methods invite discouragement among students."
  • Spring98, ece218 -"This teacher is obviously knowledgable, but he CAN NOT convey what he knows to his students. First of all, he doesn't even use the book except to give a few occasional homework problems, and even then, he posts the answers to the homework on the web before they are due. So basically you spend $50 on a book which won't help you for the class. Second, the material on his tests are completely different from what he teaches in class. Third, the lab assignments don't even correspond with what he teaches in class. For anyone that has to take ECE 218, I would STRONGLY suggest you avoid his section. Even if it means having to put your graduation date a semester off, it's well worth it, because you'll probably have to take it over anyway"

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Dr. Shawkung Wu
  ECE212 Fundamentals of Logic Design

  "Excellent Prof. He goes out of his way to make sure you understand the material. His tests are relatively easy, and he gives lots of extra credit problems."
  

  4 (excellent) 3 (good) 2 (yeah) 1 (pooa!) 0 (you suck!) Kam F. Yee
  ECE214 Fundamentals of Logic Design Laboratory

  A lab instructor for ECE 214. He is amazing. He will always stay and help as long as you need it. He even brought us all food during the crunch time for our Final Designs. If you can, get him.
  

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