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Deb Niemeier ENCE467 Anonymous 05/17/2024	Despite the potential benefits a capstone class could provide for senior students, Professor Niemeier undermines its usefulness for future engineers. She claims she won't hesitate to fail soon-to-be graduating seniors, which does not foster a healthy classroom environment where students feel comfortable seeking help. When students do take the time to ask for help or clarification, she responds as if they are not putting any effort into their work simply because they have questions. After realizing she is not helpful for the project, it becomes clear that working with the project sponsor is more beneficial. The class would likely improve without her involvement, as it could be self-run by students with the guidance of project sponsors. To make matters worse, we had to turn in a draft of our final report with the promise of receiving feedback before our engineering expo and final report due date. However, we received no feedback or acknowledgment from her.
Deb Niemeier ENCE467 Anonymous 05/16/2024	This class was set up with 1 credit in the fall and 2 credits in the spring. To start, I do not believe she should have ever been a teacher. A professor is someone who will help students grow and reinforce behavior through positive feedback, her interactions with students are quite the opposite. Throughout my year, a few incidences were brought to those higher up and while they tried their best to fix said situations, the way in which she interacted further with students after the fact was in no way better. Individuals would come out of her office crying if the group you were placed into was not producing quality work or not working well with each other. She will single individuals out and create an atmosphere of interrogation within her office. As a student you never feel relaxed in her “learning” environment as she always seems to want to pick a fight with someone. You will feel helpless when interacting with her due to her superiority complex. Some things wrong with her class: her expectations were not outlined correctly in the syllabus or in the grading rubric. You can go to her office hours all you like but she will only tell you everything is correct as she skims what is shown to her. When the grade comes back it will either be a B, C or lower. Successful feedback is not produced within this class. She is embarrassing as a capstone professor and I personally have had interactions with past capstone professors voicing their dislike in both the program and the professor. Expecting students to fix proposals over winter break due to her mistakes of missing something in the submittals is absolutely ridiculous. Grades were not changed and students were told it is not worth the “argument”, students were expected to resubmit proposals the first week of the spring semester with changes while this was not reflected in a grade change for either fall nor spring semester. She should not blame students for her mistakes and while it is late in her life, she needs to learn how to take accountability. I do believe she needs to have repercussions for her actions and since the entire year I saw no changes I also am ashamed of the civil engineering department.
Deb Niemeier ENCE467 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/25/2024	One of my top 3 least favorite professors I have had in my entire college experience (stacked with haghani and Chang if you know) Continually will cut you off mid sentence when you are in a meeting with her seeking advice. Constantly lies to students stating what other capstone groups are doing to make you feel like what you are doing isn’t enough. Overall: 0/10, would not recommend :p

Deb Niemeier
ENCE467

Anonymous
05/17/2024

Despite the potential benefits a capstone class could provide for senior students, Professor Niemeier undermines its usefulness for future engineers. She claims she won't hesitate to fail soon-to-be graduating seniors, which does not foster a healthy classroom environment where students feel comfortable seeking help. When students do take the time to ask for help or clarification, she responds as if they are not putting any effort into their work simply because they have questions. After realizing she is not helpful for the project, it becomes clear that working with the project sponsor is more beneficial. The class would likely improve without her involvement, as it could be self-run by students with the guidance of project sponsors. To make matters worse, we had to turn in a draft of our final report with the promise of receiving feedback before our engineering expo and final report due date. However, we received no feedback or acknowledgment from her.

Deb Niemeier
ENCE467

Anonymous
05/16/2024

This class was set up with 1 credit in the fall and 2 credits in the spring. To start, I do not believe she should have ever been a teacher. A professor is someone who will help students grow and reinforce behavior through positive feedback, her interactions with students are quite the opposite. Throughout my year, a few incidences were brought to those higher up and while they tried their best to fix said situations, the way in which she interacted further with students after the fact was in no way better. Individuals would come out of her office crying if the group you were placed into was not producing quality work or not working well with each other. She will single individuals out and create an atmosphere of interrogation within her office. As a student you never feel relaxed in her “learning” environment as she always seems to want to pick a fight with someone. You will feel helpless when interacting with her due to her superiority complex. Some things wrong with her class: her expectations were not outlined correctly in the syllabus or in the grading rubric. You can go to her office hours all you like but she will only tell you everything is correct as she skims what is shown to her. When the grade comes back it will either be a B, C or lower. Successful feedback is not produced within this class. She is embarrassing as a capstone professor and I personally have had interactions with past capstone professors voicing their dislike in both the program and the professor. Expecting students to fix proposals over winter break due to her mistakes of missing something in the submittals is absolutely ridiculous. Grades were not changed and students were told it is not worth the “argument”, students were expected to resubmit proposals the first week of the spring semester with changes while this was not reflected in a grade change for either fall nor spring semester. She should not blame students for her mistakes and while it is late in her life, she needs to learn how to take accountability. I do believe she needs to have repercussions for her actions and since the entire year I saw no changes I also am ashamed of the civil engineering department.

Deb Niemeier
ENCE467

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/25/2024

One of my top 3 least favorite professors I have had in my entire college experience (stacked with haghani and Chang if you know) Continually will cut you off mid sentence when you are in a meeting with her seeking advice. Constantly lies to students stating what other capstone groups are doing to make you feel like what you are doing isn’t enough. Overall: 0/10, would not recommend :p

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