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Robert Sanner ENAE788K Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/26/2021	Normally, Sanner is a great professor and teaches in an engaging manner; however, the one thing I will knock him for is his grading. One of the most important things when it comes to understand your progress in the course is seeing the grades you get from homeworks and exams. He consistently either grades homeworks and exams 4-5 weeks after they're due or flat-out never grades them (happens with the later homeworks). He also never makes the grades for final exams public. I can literally go on GradeScope right now and see that my assignments I submitted for the second half of the course are marked "Submitted" with no numerical grade attached but still somehow ended up with a final grade on Testudo. If you e-mail him for your grade for your final exam, he just flat-out ghosts you. At the end of the day, people attending grad school and taking a 788-level aerospace class are here to learn, especially from mistakes made on their homeworks and exams. Zero feedback on the second-half (and definitely the most important part) of the course doesn't help students learn from mistakes.
Robert Sanner ENAE788K Anonymous 08/10/2020	Overall: Intelligent professor, but tough. The course: Do not take this course without knowledge of control systems (I hope that was obvious by now). A brief, quick review of probabilities will give you the false impression this course will go in a smooth and easy manner. The pace quickly picks up. He speeds through concepts pretty quickly, as an intellectual of his caliber would do. The only problem is he expects you to already know concepts he doesn't cover. Listening and note-taking together, can not happen with both being completed to 100% accuracy. He writes A LOT. And talks a lot as he writes. He talks in a very calculated manner, which after processing, makes sense. But you don't have time to process because he's already saying/writing the next thing while you're trying to process the first. The connections between the points that are written on the board, so that you can make sense of the notes later, are spoken. So in essence, you have to write everything he writes, and write everything he says. Be prepared for the lecture time to dramatically increase due to the pausing, processing, and writing of what is spoken/written. Email exchanges will be very "like code" - almost inhumane. Lacks empathy, but will be willing to makes adjustments given legitimate rationale. Your success, unless you are independently smart (if you are, then you already know), your success will ultimately depend on the study group you make, and the hours you have to commit to understanding the material outside of lecture. Can't knock his intelligence. But as a professor, you teach to convey and educate others - not throw out your knowledge and see what sticks. You're not hired just because you're smart. You're hired to teach to students. To people with different backgrounds and different stories. And understand that they are people at the end of the day. Not computers.