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Calin Belta ENEE290 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/18/2024	New to UMD, but definitely takes the time to make sure he explains the proofs behind relevant material and lets us know what to expect on exams. Everything is open note, and you can even have pdf note files on your computer. Makes sure to try and have people engaged and posts all the whiteboard work after classes. Slides are posted too before classes for students to follow along or get an idea of the material in advance. If you don't understand any of the material, he'll take the time to try to help you out in class, or you can ask him about it after class or in his office hours. 10/10 great experience so far.
Calin Belta ENEE290 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/16/2024	This guy is so awesome. Exams were fully open-note and answers were posted promptly. He posts all lecture slides and examples done in class. No practice exams but I never needed them.
Julius Goldhar ENEE290 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/23/2024	I loved taking this course with Goldhar. As he says from the start, homeworks are difficult so that you find the tests to be easy. Only 2 midterms, and on both and the final he used problems directly from the practice problems he gave out. The course goes very fast, and the best way to describe his teaching is, well, jittery? The diff-eq section was understandable by just giving yourself time to process what you just learned (I'd say it took about a week, from learning + discussion and lab), and for linear algebra there are so many resources online that you'll get the hang of it. Our TA was very reliable, so having him as a resource also probably helped me get a good grade. There's also an immediate +5 curve for the class, an 85% is considered an A-, which is really nice. Its a lot of work, but he knows this, and his leniency with grading makes up for it.
Joseph JaJa ENEE290 Expecting a B+ plannetterpuser63790 03/16/2024	I took ENEE290 in Fall 2023 and JaJa was a good professor. It was the second semester of the class being run and the course was structured to alternate between diff eq and linear algebra. His lecturing was very monotone but if you can get past that, you'll find that his lectures are helpful and he wants you to succeed. When introducing new topics, he generally took us through the derivation for a particular method, be it for diff eq or linear algebra, which I didn't find terribly helpful, but it's there if you learn better like that. Some topics took a few lectures to stick, like when we started covering eigenvalues and eigenspaces in the linear algebra units, but in general, if you know what to ask about, he will try his best to clear any confusion, so much so to the point that when almost the entire class got a question wrong on the first exam, he spent the next lecture taking us through how to answer it properly. The exams were quite easy and covered mostly more recent content. Homework assignments were split between mathy assignments, which I felt were significantly harder than class content and exams, and MATLAB "labs." There was no curve for the class. Overall 3.5/5.
Richard La ENEE290 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/05/2023	This was the first semester of ENEE290 and it went pretty well. It covered basic Differential Equations while also going into Linear Algebra. I will say, La did a lot of derivations in his lectures, just to end up on a formula that you didn't really need the derivation for. La definitely cared about our grades and would always ask to see if we were understanding the material. MATLAB's weren't that hard and the TA was always helpful. Homeworks were fair and not too complicated. The two midterms were very fair and not too challenging. I will say the final had a lot to do and it was hard to get everything done in time, but the class was pre-curved and an 80% was an A. I don't know what future semesters of this class will be like, but he first semester went pretty well and I think it was a bit easier than the MATH246 alternative and we learned all the fundamentals that we needed to.

Calin Belta
ENEE290

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/18/2024

New to UMD, but definitely takes the time to make sure he explains the proofs behind relevant material and lets us know what to expect on exams. Everything is open note, and you can even have pdf note files on your computer. Makes sure to try and have people engaged and posts all the whiteboard work after classes. Slides are posted too before classes for students to follow along or get an idea of the material in advance. If you don't understand any of the material, he'll take the time to try to help you out in class, or you can ask him about it after class or in his office hours. 10/10 great experience so far.

Calin Belta
ENEE290

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
11/16/2024

This guy is so awesome. Exams were fully open-note and answers were posted promptly. He posts all lecture slides and examples done in class. No practice exams but I never needed them.

Julius Goldhar
ENEE290

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/23/2024

I loved taking this course with Goldhar. As he says from the start, homeworks are difficult so that you find the tests to be easy. Only 2 midterms, and on both and the final he used problems directly from the practice problems he gave out. The course goes very fast, and the best way to describe his teaching is, well, jittery? The diff-eq section was understandable by just giving yourself time to process what you just learned (I'd say it took about a week, from learning + discussion and lab), and for linear algebra there are so many resources online that you'll get the hang of it. Our TA was very reliable, so having him as a resource also probably helped me get a good grade. There's also an immediate +5 curve for the class, an 85% is considered an A-, which is really nice. Its a lot of work, but he knows this, and his leniency with grading makes up for it.

Joseph JaJa
ENEE290

Expecting a B+
plannetterpuser63790
03/16/2024

I took ENEE290 in Fall 2023 and JaJa was a good professor. It was the second semester of the class being run and the course was structured to alternate between diff eq and linear algebra. His lecturing was very monotone but if you can get past that, you'll find that his lectures are helpful and he wants you to succeed. When introducing new topics, he generally took us through the derivation for a particular method, be it for diff eq or linear algebra, which I didn't find terribly helpful, but it's there if you learn better like that. Some topics took a few lectures to stick, like when we started covering eigenvalues and eigenspaces in the linear algebra units, but in general, if you know what to ask about, he will try his best to clear any confusion, so much so to the point that when almost the entire class got a question wrong on the first exam, he spent the next lecture taking us through how to answer it properly. The exams were quite easy and covered mostly more recent content. Homework assignments were split between mathy assignments, which I felt were significantly harder than class content and exams, and MATLAB "labs." There was no curve for the class. Overall 3.5/5.

Richard La
ENEE290

Expecting an A
Anonymous
06/05/2023

This was the first semester of ENEE290 and it went pretty well. It covered basic Differential Equations while also going into Linear Algebra. I will say, La did a lot of derivations in his lectures, just to end up on a formula that you didn't really need the derivation for. La definitely cared about our grades and would always ask to see if we were understanding the material. MATLAB's weren't that hard and the TA was always helpful. Homeworks were fair and not too complicated. The two midterms were very fair and not too challenging. I will say the final had a lot to do and it was hard to get everything done in time, but the class was pre-curved and an 80% was an A. I don't know what future semesters of this class will be like, but he first semester went pretty well and I think it was a bit easier than the MATH246 alternative and we learned all the fundamentals that we needed to.

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