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Timothy Horiuchi ENEE307 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/11/2021	Easy class if you have a nice TA, and Horiuchi is a great professor. 100% recommend you to take him for this and even 303. There are 7 labs in total due every 2 weeks so the workload is very manageable.
Robert Newcomb ENEE307 soulelite 09/30/2016	He just used the labs written by a different professor. Every lab except one was on analog circuits, but he decided to make the final on digital circuits, which was also half your final grade. Lastly, there was no consistency to how TA's graded lab reports.
Neil Goldsman ENEE307 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/31/2014	Goldsman is awesome! 307 is a pretty laidback class. There were labs due every two weeks, but if you work hard one week, you don't have to come the next week, which is nice if you have an 8 am lab. Lectures are pretty useful, even moreso than the 245 lectures, where Goldman basically reviews 303 stuff, so it is recommended you go if you don't have a grasp of the material. Midterm and final were pretty straightforward, he has review sessions and posts old exams. Overall a relatively pain-free class class, try to take him over Newcomb if you can.
Neil Goldsman ENEE307 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/27/2011	He seems like a cool guy, and he lectures at a reasonably pace at review sessions, but during the normal 50-min lectures, he tends to rush and go through material at a dizzying rate. His notes can become an incoherent scrawl and he tries to race through his notes and diagrams. He's also a bit touchy about students talking during his lectures. The actual lab is pretty easy, and of course, depends mainly on how your TA is. Malfunctioning parts/breadboards/probes were an issue though. The midterm and final are straightforward, and basically test the same material as the posted practice exams. His lectures vary in usefulness, especially since, due to lab scheduling, you may be covering topics in lecture that you've already encountered in the lab itself, but going to reviews is vital.
Neil Goldsman ENEE307 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/18/2010	He is a good professor who knows how to teach this course. He explains the material well and his exams are straight forward. But he really need to pick up right TAs for this course. My TA graded lab reports not on the quality of work but his gradidng formula depended on if he liked the student or not. Other than that Prof. Goldsman is a very good teacher. Highly recommend him for ENEE307.
Neil Goldsman ENEE307 vbury 12/17/2009	He definitely knows his stuff, but I never went to lectures enough to greatly benefit from them. Very often the lab equipment was faulty (shorted-out breadboards, wires, etc), but none of that was his fault. It was an OK class, but he is a harsh grader for a 2-credit course. At least he's not as bad as Peckerar.
Neil Goldsman ENEE307 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/15/2009	Knows his material but takes forever to review labs in lecture. The grading for the midterm was extremely harsh and the grading for the final is very similar. Averages hovered around the mid 40s. When these supposedly "trivial" midterms and finals add up to half your grade, and the material is difficult stuff to absolute memorize and master, there is an issue with the course management. This is a 2-credit course for goodness sakes, how can half the class get Cs????? He grades on a bell curve, so so disastrous and unreasonable.
Martin Peckerar ENEE307 Expecting a B stereodan 12/17/2008	People need to relax. He is a good professor. These people who didn't like him are obviously not in college for the degree. He is a GOOD PROFESSOR, he teaches you what you need to know and is a really nice guy. He is enthusiastic about making sure everyone knows the "basics" that engineers need to know upon graduating. The "A" material is NOT hard, he's just looking for a little extra research on the topic to add on the end of the lab, I did mine from wikipedia and got A's on most of my labs. So RELAX. The only thing I didn't like about the class wasn't him, it was the 9am start time.
Martin Peckerar ENEE307 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/02/2008	The worst professor I have ever chanced upon in a university. This guy just redefines bad in every way. Messy, minuscule writing on the board, he talks quietly, and really high pitched (which is INCREDIBLY annoying), and he is just a total douchebag when it comes to assignments. He forces people to do extra work for a TWO CREDIT class, by which I mean you have to come in on your own time, and do an extra experiment and discuss it for an A on your labs. The lab was another horrifying experience; the equipment was mostly broken, 90% of the shit in there doesn't work. We had a total of ONE lab bench in the entire place that worked consistently for the whole semester, and it was pretty much a first come first serve all-out war to get it every week. Peckerar also kept us working up until finals actually started. He actually MADE UP A LAB because we should have finished 1 week early (as was common for every other semester). Overall, this was the worst collegiate experience of my life aside from Francis Goochlick.
Martin Peckerar ENEE307 Anonymous 02/13/2008	-Threatened to fail anyone who leaves his lectures before he finishes (he actually went 5 minutes over when someone left) -Excerpt from his syllabus: "The grading policy is as follows. Performing all necessary measurements and providing “hard copy documentation” of these measurements is satisfactory and, by itself, assures the student of a C grade. An inability to perform required measurements places a lab in the D-F range. Correctly answering the “interpretation” questions as presented in the lab moves the lab into the B scoring range. To get an A, the laboratory must contain some “unique” element, not specifically called for in the lab text. As an example, in lab 0, students may examine the concepts of “measurement accuracy and precision.” An interesting project would be to look up the definitions of these terms and find ways to quantify these concepts (using statistical concepts, like standard deviation). A REALLY interesting project would be to quantify the measurement uncertainty (for the measurement of a resistance, R), and from that extract the degree to which the component parameter ACTUALLY varies in light of measurement uncertainty." If you want an easy A, Id suggest avoiding this guy at all costs. He makes life way harder than it needs to be.

Timothy Horiuchi
ENEE307

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/11/2021

Easy class if you have a nice TA, and Horiuchi is a great professor. 100% recommend you to take him for this and even 303. There are 7 labs in total due every 2 weeks so the workload is very manageable.

Robert Newcomb
ENEE307

soulelite
09/30/2016

He just used the labs written by a different professor. Every lab except one was on analog circuits, but he decided to make the final on digital circuits, which was also half your final grade. Lastly, there was no consistency to how TA's graded lab reports.

Neil Goldsman
ENEE307

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/31/2014

Goldsman is awesome! 307 is a pretty laidback class. There were labs due every two weeks, but if you work hard one week, you don't have to come the next week, which is nice if you have an 8 am lab. Lectures are pretty useful, even moreso than the 245 lectures, where Goldman basically reviews 303 stuff, so it is recommended you go if you don't have a grasp of the material. Midterm and final were pretty straightforward, he has review sessions and posts old exams. Overall a relatively pain-free class class, try to take him over Newcomb if you can.

Neil Goldsman
ENEE307

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/27/2011

He seems like a cool guy, and he lectures at a reasonably pace at review sessions, but during the normal 50-min lectures, he tends to rush and go through material at a dizzying rate. His notes can become an incoherent scrawl and he tries to race through his notes and diagrams. He's also a bit touchy about students talking during his lectures. The actual lab is pretty easy, and of course, depends mainly on how your TA is. Malfunctioning parts/breadboards/probes were an issue though. The midterm and final are straightforward, and basically test the same material as the posted practice exams. His lectures vary in usefulness, especially since, due to lab scheduling, you may be covering topics in lecture that you've already encountered in the lab itself, but going to reviews is vital.

Neil Goldsman
ENEE307

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/18/2010

He is a good professor who knows how to teach this course. He explains the material well and his exams are straight forward. But he really need to pick up right TAs for this course. My TA graded lab reports not on the quality of work but his gradidng formula depended on if he liked the student or not. Other than that Prof. Goldsman is a very good teacher. Highly recommend him for ENEE307.

Neil Goldsman
ENEE307

vbury
12/17/2009

He definitely knows his stuff, but I never went to lectures enough to greatly benefit from them. Very often the lab equipment was faulty (shorted-out breadboards, wires, etc), but none of that was his fault. It was an OK class, but he is a harsh grader for a 2-credit course. At least he's not as bad as Peckerar.

Neil Goldsman
ENEE307

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/15/2009

Knows his material but takes forever to review labs in lecture. The grading for the midterm was extremely harsh and the grading for the final is very similar. Averages hovered around the mid 40s. When these supposedly "trivial" midterms and finals add up to half your grade, and the material is difficult stuff to absolute memorize and master, there is an issue with the course management. This is a 2-credit course for goodness sakes, how can half the class get Cs????? He grades on a bell curve, so so disastrous and unreasonable.

Martin Peckerar
ENEE307

Expecting a B
stereodan
12/17/2008

People need to relax. He is a good professor. These people who didn't like him are obviously not in college for the degree. He is a GOOD PROFESSOR, he teaches you what you need to know and is a really nice guy. He is enthusiastic about making sure everyone knows the "basics" that engineers *need* to know upon graduating. The "A" material is NOT hard, he's just looking for a little extra research on the topic to add on the end of the lab, I did mine from wikipedia and got A's on most of my labs. So RELAX. The only thing I didn't like about the class wasn't him, it was the 9am start time.

Martin Peckerar
ENEE307

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/02/2008

The worst professor I have ever chanced upon in a university. This guy just redefines bad in every way. Messy, minuscule writing on the board, he talks quietly, and really high pitched (which is INCREDIBLY annoying), and he is just a total douchebag when it comes to assignments. He forces people to do extra work for a TWO CREDIT class, by which I mean you have to come in on your own time, and do an extra experiment and discuss it for an A on your labs. The lab was another horrifying experience; the equipment was mostly broken, 90% of the shit in there doesn't work. We had a total of ONE lab bench in the entire place that worked consistently for the whole semester, and it was pretty much a first come first serve all-out war to get it every week. Peckerar also kept us working up until finals actually started. He actually MADE UP A LAB because we should have finished 1 week early (as was common for every other semester). Overall, this was the worst collegiate experience of my life aside from Francis Goochlick.

Martin Peckerar
ENEE307

Anonymous
02/13/2008

-Threatened to fail anyone who leaves his lectures before he finishes (he actually went 5 minutes over when someone left) -Excerpt from his syllabus: "The grading policy is as follows. Performing all necessary measurements and providing “hard copy documentation” of these measurements is satisfactory and, by itself, assures the student of a C grade. An inability to perform required measurements places a lab in the D-F range. Correctly answering the “interpretation” questions as presented in the lab moves the lab into the B scoring range. To get an A, the laboratory must contain some “unique” element, not specifically called for in the lab text. As an example, in lab 0, students may examine the concepts of “measurement accuracy and precision.” An interesting project would be to look up the definitions of these terms and find ways to quantify these concepts (using statistical concepts, like standard deviation). A REALLY interesting project would be to quantify the measurement uncertainty (for the measurement of a resistance, R), and from that extract the degree to which the component parameter ACTUALLY varies in light of measurement uncertainty." If you want an easy A, Id suggest avoiding this guy at all costs. He makes life way harder than it needs to be.

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