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Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H Anonymous 08/07/2022	This professor's course was not a pleasant experience for me. The class was extremely disorganized, homework problems were often completely unrelated to material covered during lecture, and it was impossible to know what exam questions would cover. Additionally, the textbook for this course is one of the worst textbooks, making it difficult to even self teach the material. Lectures usually consist of Professor Iliadis scribbling his own words on a blank document while trying to follow the derivations in the textbook. Very boring. He also came off as arrogant and rude at times when interacting with students who asked or answered questions during class. Although he says you don't need to memorize any formulas or derivations for exams/quizzes, you need to memorize them. He will often test a very specific derivation from the textbook in an exam, and it's not possible to figure it out during the exam. It's all memorization. The only reason I'm not giving 1 star is because he grades super leniently. There's no need to worry much about what your final grade will be, as the curve is very large. But, the process of getting there is painful and extremely frustrating. If you only want a good grade, Iliadis isn't a bad choice. But, your experience will likely not be enjoyable.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H Expecting an A+ jjjnmk 11/13/2015	Iliadis is an okay professor. The way he approaches the class, at least in his ENEE313H class, was to give the students a really high-level conceptual understanding of all of the course content. He goes through tons of proofs on the board in his lectures, getting into the nitty gritty math behind derivations. However, he himself doesn't really do practice problems during class time. You'll have to depend on your TA or yourself to get practice problem help. Homework was pretty light. He has this habit of assigning homework problems concerning topics that he hasn't covered himself in lecture yet, so I'd try to find a solution manual. Tests were in the format of half multiple choice, half free...response. Multiple choice questions tested your high-level conceptual understanding of things, and in free response, some questions were also to test your conceptual understanding of the concept, qualitatively deriving behaviors and such. A small portion of the free response were actual calculations questions. The best way to study for his exams are to really understand the derivations in how to do them step by step, and what kind of assumptions are made in justifying each one. After that, being able to understand how to do some of the simple calculations problems that he assigns for homework, and you're good as gold. There is a curve at the end. My grades on the two midterms were 86 and 87, and he said that I'm on track to get an A+ or an A if I slip a little too much on the final. Edit: This semester, I am also taking Iliadis for 303, and he teaches the beginning of 303 pretty much like 313. Our first exam for 303 could have been our first exam in 313 the semester before. He typically gives a quiz the class before a test, just to show you what you do or don't know. These quizzes don't count for that much, and he tends to recycle questions from them to put on the exam, so keep track of what the questions are.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H soulelite 05/17/2015	ENEE313, Introduction to Device Physics, is probably one of my least favorite ENEE courses. With that being said, Iliadis's lectures were pretty boring. There is not much structure to his lectures and he goes all over the place. The textbook he assigns is also very dense, and it is a pain to read. I actually would recommend taking Professor Goldman's course. Goldman wrote his own textbook for 313, and I actually ended up using it to study for the final as it was more straight forward than Iliadis's assigned textbook. Also, from Professor Goldman's website, he posts HW solutions and practice exams, which Iliadis does not do at all. I would have given Iliadis a 3, but once I went to his office to see my exam, and he ended up just regrading it and took an additional 4 points off. I was so baffled because he wouldn't even let me see my own exam, and he his grading methodology is so random. He literally said I took some points off here because I don't know what you were doing.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2014	Iliadis is an okay professor. His lectures can be a bit boring but he isn't too bad at explaining the material. You realize he goes over the material pretty decently but you may not get a lot out of it. The workload is fairly light since there was little homework (I wish there was more HW to be better prepared for exams). Exams were pretty straightforward, there are simple computational questions, some derivations, and multiple choice questions. You pretty much have to remember the handful of formulas for the exam. He didn't give us back our exams for some reason, though the averages were really high. He is also disorganized and doesn't give very clear explanations. You need to read the book ahead of time to get the most out of his lectures. Overall, not a bad class and not hard to get an A.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H Anonymous 05/23/2010	Lectures are not really that interesting, although looking back, the material itself is pretty interesting as you are finding out what goes on inside stuff like transistors to make them work the way they do. The main problem with Iliadis is he doesn't explain stuff thoroughly enough. Many of his lectures require knowledge from other 300 level EE classes. This being said, his exams a very fair and he does not give much hw at all (I actually kind of wished he would give us more so that I could feel more prepared for the exams). The hw he does give is basically impossible to do solely from the lecture material. One nice thing was he emphasized knowing the concepts more than just being able to plug in numbers to equations.

Agisilaos Iliadis
ENEE313H

Anonymous
08/07/2022

This professor's course was not a pleasant experience for me. The class was extremely disorganized, homework problems were often completely unrelated to material covered during lecture, and it was impossible to know what exam questions would cover. Additionally, the textbook for this course is one of the worst textbooks, making it difficult to even self teach the material. Lectures usually consist of Professor Iliadis scribbling his own words on a blank document while trying to follow the derivations in the textbook. Very boring. He also came off as arrogant and rude at times when interacting with students who asked or answered questions during class. Although he says you don't need to memorize any formulas or derivations for exams/quizzes, you need to memorize them. He will often test a very specific derivation from the textbook in an exam, and it's not possible to figure it out during the exam. It's all memorization. The only reason I'm not giving 1 star is because he grades super leniently. There's no need to worry much about what your final grade will be, as the curve is very large. But, the process of getting there is painful and extremely frustrating. If you only want a good grade, Iliadis isn't a bad choice. But, your experience will likely not be enjoyable.

Agisilaos Iliadis
ENEE313H

Expecting an A+
jjjnmk
11/13/2015

Iliadis is an okay professor. The way he approaches the class, at least in his ENEE313H class, was to give the students a really high-level conceptual understanding of all of the course content. He goes through tons of proofs on the board in his lectures, getting into the nitty gritty math behind derivations. However, he himself doesn't really do practice problems during class time. You'll have to depend on your TA or yourself to get practice problem help. Homework was pretty light. He has this habit of assigning homework problems concerning topics that he hasn't covered himself in lecture yet, so I'd try to find a solution manual. Tests were in the format of half multiple choice, half free...response. Multiple choice questions tested your high-level conceptual understanding of things, and in free response, some questions were also to test your conceptual understanding of the concept, qualitatively deriving behaviors and such. A small portion of the free response were actual calculations questions. The best way to study for his exams are to really understand the derivations in how to do them step by step, and what kind of assumptions are made in justifying each one. After that, being able to understand how to do some of the simple calculations problems that he assigns for homework, and you're good as gold. There is a curve at the end. My grades on the two midterms were 86 and 87, and he said that I'm on track to get an A+ or an A if I slip a little too much on the final. Edit: This semester, I am also taking Iliadis for 303, and he teaches the beginning of 303 pretty much like 313. Our first exam for 303 could have been our first exam in 313 the semester before. He typically gives a quiz the class before a test, just to show you what you do or don't know. These quizzes don't count for that much, and he tends to recycle questions from them to put on the exam, so keep track of what the questions are.

Agisilaos Iliadis
ENEE313H

soulelite
05/17/2015

ENEE313, Introduction to Device Physics, is probably one of my least favorite ENEE courses. With that being said, Iliadis's lectures were pretty boring. There is not much structure to his lectures and he goes all over the place. The textbook he assigns is also very dense, and it is a pain to read. I actually would recommend taking Professor Goldman's course. Goldman wrote his own textbook for 313, and I actually ended up using it to study for the final as it was more straight forward than Iliadis's assigned textbook. Also, from Professor Goldman's website, he posts HW solutions and practice exams, which Iliadis does not do at all. I would have given Iliadis a 3, but once I went to his office to see my exam, and he ended up just regrading it and took an additional 4 points off. I was so baffled because he wouldn't even let me see my own exam, and he his grading methodology is so random. He literally said I took some points off here because I don't know what you were doing.

Agisilaos Iliadis
ENEE313H

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/15/2014

Iliadis is an okay professor. His lectures can be a bit boring but he isn't too bad at explaining the material. You realize he goes over the material pretty decently but you may not get a lot out of it. The workload is fairly light since there was little homework (I wish there was more HW to be better prepared for exams). Exams were pretty straightforward, there are simple computational questions, some derivations, and multiple choice questions. You pretty much have to remember the handful of formulas for the exam. He didn't give us back our exams for some reason, though the averages were really high. He is also disorganized and doesn't give very clear explanations. You need to read the book ahead of time to get the most out of his lectures. Overall, not a bad class and not hard to get an A.

Agisilaos Iliadis
ENEE313H

Anonymous
05/23/2010

Lectures are not really that interesting, although looking back, the material itself is pretty interesting as you are finding out what goes on inside stuff like transistors to make them work the way they do. The main problem with Iliadis is he doesn't explain stuff thoroughly enough. Many of his lectures require knowledge from other 300 level EE classes. This being said, his exams a very fair and he does not give much hw at all (I actually kind of wished he would give us more so that I could feel more prepared for the exams). The hw he does give is basically impossible to do solely from the lecture material. One nice thing was he emphasized knowing the concepts more than just being able to plug in numbers to equations.

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