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Raymond Sedwick ENAE457 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/31/2025	Dr. Sedwick was a very polarizing figure among myself and classmates. Unfortunately, this course was taught using the flipped classroom model, something I personally despise and think is very disrespectful to the time of students. Furthermore, these flipped lectures had associated note taking that was graded. With these flipped lectures and notes, along with weekly homework's and required attendance, this class took an inordinate amount of time each week. Labeling it a 5 credit course would be apt. It also didnt help that he refused to accept any late work. In addition to this colossal time investment, exams required large amounts of memorization of the lectures, further adding another time strain. For first exam, Dr. Sedwick made it known that we wouldnt have to memorize any actual numbers/physical constants. Lo and behold, there was a question to this effect on the exam. Leading up to the second exam, a student inquired if there would be something similar to this on the upcoming exam. Dr. Sedwick denied that there would be, however when the student reminded him that he had said the same thing regarding the first exam, and asked him to clarify, Dr. Sedwick became visibly irritated and argumentative toward the student. While maybe not enough to violate any rules, this and other similar situations made it very difficult to properly prepare for the exams.The only reason I am not giving one star is that he was generous in grading both the homeworks and exams, and I felt that the structure of the course was sufficient to allow me to get a decent grasp on the material. I also found him very pleasant outside of these few adverse moments.
Raymond Sedwick ENAE457 Anonymous 11/27/2023	I literally had the worst ever experience in his space propulsion class. The fact that you have to write up notes from his videos, and you have to write down everything word by word is beyond disgusting. Everyone learns differently, and this just don't benefit some students (like you are just trying to get the notes done to get a perfect score for the notes instead of trying to comprehend the concepts behind the notes) to learn effectively. Also he doesn't allow you to bring any formula sheets (or even provide any formulas) on the exams, which you also have to memorize all of the difficult formulas by heart, heavily defeats the purpose for learning these concepts.
Raymond Sedwick ENAE457 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/17/2021	He can come off a bit snarky but understand that he really is quite helpful and is receptive to student concerns and questions. Very concise and to-the-point notes from lecture. He doesn’t really big you down with things you don’t need. The only thing is the homeworks are pretty hard but exams are significantly easier.
Raymond Sedwick ENAE457 Expecting an A angryfred 05/15/2012	Had him for both 464 and 457. His 457 is excellent. His notes are self-contained and you really learn alot in his propulsions course. As long as you put the effort in this course you should get an A. for 464, it was his first time teaching it and it was a bit rough. He tried to go off Dr. Yu's syllabus but didn't seem to do to well at that. The lab reports were long and tedious. However, grading was generous and more than 3/4's of the class got A's. Definitely worth the effort.
Raymond Sedwick ENAE457 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/14/2012	Average professor, really. Not great, but not bad. He gets an extra star for not making us take a final exam, which was nice.

Raymond Sedwick
ENAE457

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/31/2025

Dr. Sedwick was a very polarizing figure among myself and classmates. Unfortunately, this course was taught using the flipped classroom model, something I personally despise and think is very disrespectful to the time of students. Furthermore, these flipped lectures had associated note taking that was graded. With these flipped lectures and notes, along with weekly homework's and required attendance, this class took an inordinate amount of time each week. Labeling it a 5 credit course would be apt. It also didnt help that he refused to accept any late work. In addition to this colossal time investment, exams required large amounts of memorization of the lectures, further adding another time strain. For first exam, Dr. Sedwick made it known that we wouldnt have to memorize any actual numbers/physical constants. Lo and behold, there was a question to this effect on the exam. Leading up to the second exam, a student inquired if there would be something similar to this on the upcoming exam. Dr. Sedwick denied that there would be, however when the student reminded him that he had said the same thing regarding the first exam, and asked him to clarify, Dr. Sedwick became visibly irritated and argumentative toward the student. While maybe not enough to violate any rules, this and other similar situations made it very difficult to properly prepare for the exams.The only reason I am not giving one star is that he was generous in grading both the homeworks and exams, and I felt that the structure of the course was sufficient to allow me to get a decent grasp on the material. I also found him very pleasant outside of these few adverse moments.

Raymond Sedwick
ENAE457

Anonymous
11/27/2023

I literally had the worst ever experience in his space propulsion class. The fact that you have to write up notes from his videos, and you have to write down everything word by word is beyond disgusting. Everyone learns differently, and this just don't benefit some students (like you are just trying to get the notes done to get a perfect score for the notes instead of trying to comprehend the concepts behind the notes) to learn effectively. Also he doesn't allow you to bring any formula sheets (or even provide any formulas) on the exams, which you also have to memorize all of the difficult formulas by heart, heavily defeats the purpose for learning these concepts.

Raymond Sedwick
ENAE457

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/17/2021

He can come off a bit snarky but understand that he really is quite helpful and is receptive to student concerns and questions. Very concise and to-the-point notes from lecture. He doesn’t really big you down with things you don’t need. The only thing is the homeworks are pretty hard but exams are significantly easier.

Raymond Sedwick
ENAE457

Expecting an A
angryfred
05/15/2012

Had him for both 464 and 457. His 457 is excellent. His notes are self-contained and you really learn alot in his propulsions course. As long as you put the effort in this course you should get an A. for 464, it was his first time teaching it and it was a bit rough. He tried to go off Dr. Yu's syllabus but didn't seem to do to well at that. The lab reports were long and tedious. However, grading was generous and more than 3/4's of the class got A's. Definitely worth the effort.

Raymond Sedwick
ENAE457

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/14/2012

Average professor, really. Not great, but not bad. He gets an extra star for not making us take a final exam, which was nice.

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