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Yang Tao BIOE485 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/27/2022	He is notorious for rambling a lot and in this class it is hard to follow what he is saying many times. If you look around the room, most people are on their laptops doing some sort of other work. However, his effort in getting dozens of clinical mentors, many guest speakers, and his own real-world experience is first-class and I can tell he is a very knowledgeable professor (only one in the department with a PE), and puts a lot of effort into making this class function. He is also a lenient grader, and as long as you show you did SOMETHING, you will probably get an A.
Yang Tao BIOE485 Expecting a B+ pat 02/29/2012	I realize I'm probably one of the very few dolts that got a B in this class, but I was pretty deterred from caring about it for a number of reasons. Firstly, this is NOT an engineering class, no matter how much he acts like it is. We did not design a single piece of instrumentation equiptment the entire semester. We built an EKG off of a prescribed schematic that he made himself, and we wrote a stupid labview (worst software ever written) program to process, filter, and display the signal. So all in all, this was more of a computer science experience. As far as the electronics goes, any idiot with remedial high school level electronics background can put together a circuit from reading a schematic. You literally sit there and stare at him while he rambles on about his slides that he takes out of the book. There are a lot of slides, which he annotates in class. The problem is that his hand writing is serial-killer grade quality, so it's impossible to read. Also, he is nearly impossible to understand on his best day because of his thick accent. He generally assumed that everyone knew more electronics than we learned, remembered, or could deal with, so his lecture notes on that material were pretty miserable. He also gives you 3 pages of (cheet-sheet-sheet as he calls them) for each test. As a result, I literally did NO studying - all of my effort went into making these massive things, and I got a B+ overall. If you actually care, this class should be a GPA booster. As far as training us to be more able bodied instrumentation engineers (fancy word for EE), this was a monumental failure. I think they just put a bunch of BS down on paper to get the BIOE program accredited, and as a result the class looks good but lacks any genuine engineering training. My oh my how I have wasted my money with BIOE. INFURIATING
Yang Tao BIOE485 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/14/2010	uhhhhhhhh.......BEST PROFESSOR EVER!