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Ankur Srivastava ENEE350H soulelite 09/30/2016	Favorite honors EE course I've taken. The professor makes the class very funny, while still teaching at a fast pace. We did extra material not in 350 for the last 3 weeks. I think he teaches 350 the right way by making it more hardware oriented as opposed to Silio/Oruc making their courses very assembly programming heavy. This way, EE majors won't be at a disadvantage to CE majors. Definitely recommend taking this guy for 350.
Ankur Srivastava ENEE350H Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/31/2014	Srivastava is pretty good at explaining the material. The workload is pretty light since there little homework. Sometimes you have no idea if what you doing on a homework or exam is right, but Srivastava is somewhat generous with partial credit if you justify enough.
Ankur Srivastava ENEE350H Expecting an A koffe55 01/13/2014	Good professor. He teaches the honors version of the course very differently from other professors - there was almost nothing my class had in common with Oruc / Silio / Barua. Very little assembly programming, which could be a plus for some people. I almost wish we did more than our single (one hour) assignment. He gives out almost no homework, which can be frustrating when you find yourself equipped with so few practice problems to use for studying before a test.
Ankur Srivastava ENEE350H Anonymous 12/18/2012	Cool guy. The class is in my opinion the most straightforward of the 300-levels and if you're a CE it'll be even easier. Lectures are interesting enough, very few homework assignments and they are quite short. The tests are fair and emphasize problem-solving over memorizing concepts. You don't really have to study for them if you pay attention in class.
Bruce Jacob ENEE350H Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/11/2011	I took this class in the fall of 2009 with Jacob. His teaching style is so interesting and engaging that even if you don't go to your classes, you'll want to go to his. He will go out of his way for students and he will also teach you about topics that YOU can pick because YOU find it interesting! The class was pretty easy but it was intellectually stimulating - it was only easy because Jacob is really a great professor, so I'd give him a lot of credit. You will learn a lot and really enjoy the class with him! :)
Ankur Srivastava ENEE350H sashah 12/13/2010	I, like most people, only review professors I really hate on this site, so for a change I thought I'd review a professor I actually liked. Srivastava is the kind of professor who definitely shows a passion for the teaching computer organization. I find this to be a rare quality among professors in the engineering department, many of whom act like teaching is a collateral responsibility for getting funded research. Srivastava makes it a point to make sure every student in the class understands a topic before moving forward. I know this is only feasible because of the small class size of an honors section, but that trait gives me lots of respect for him. I can honestly say he is the ONLY professor from whom I pretty much learned everything during lecture, using the textbook only as a supplementary resource. In all my classes it's the other way around. Yes his exams can be difficult, but I think the depth of his questions is commensurate with the detail he goes into during lecture, so if you pay attention you should be fine. The only complain I have against him, which may sound ironic, is that he doesn't give enough homework. We only had 5 assignments throughout the semester, and each one took about 30 minutes to complete - unheard of for an engineering class. Why is this bad? Because I feel homework is the best way to get a grasp of the material. I feel so much more confident about a topic after I just did a rigorous problem set on it. Sure you can say one could do their own problems sets, but honestly, no one does that. So other than that complaint, I thoroughly enjoyed the class.
Bruce Jacob ENEE350H vbury 12/17/2009	This guy is the best professor I've had at UMD hands down. He's one of the few professors that still understands what it means to be a student, so he'll teach you stuff you actually use after you graduate. I wasn't lucky enough to have him for ENES100, so when I saw he was teaching this class I immediately jumped at the chance. If you ever have an opportunity to take him, DO IT. You will not regret it.

Ankur Srivastava
ENEE350H

soulelite
09/30/2016

Favorite honors EE course I've taken. The professor makes the class very funny, while still teaching at a fast pace. We did extra material not in 350 for the last 3 weeks. I think he teaches 350 the right way by making it more hardware oriented as opposed to Silio/Oruc making their courses very assembly programming heavy. This way, EE majors won't be at a disadvantage to CE majors. Definitely recommend taking this guy for 350.

Ankur Srivastava
ENEE350H

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
01/31/2014

Srivastava is pretty good at explaining the material. The workload is pretty light since there little homework. Sometimes you have no idea if what you doing on a homework or exam is right, but Srivastava is somewhat generous with partial credit if you justify enough.

Ankur Srivastava
ENEE350H

Expecting an A
koffe55
01/13/2014

Good professor. He teaches the honors version of the course very differently from other professors - there was almost nothing my class had in common with Oruc / Silio / Barua. Very little assembly programming, which could be a plus for some people. I almost wish we did more than our single (one hour) assignment. He gives out almost no homework, which can be frustrating when you find yourself equipped with so few practice problems to use for studying before a test.

Ankur Srivastava
ENEE350H

Anonymous
12/18/2012

Cool guy. The class is in my opinion the most straightforward of the 300-levels and if you're a CE it'll be even easier. Lectures are interesting enough, very few homework assignments and they are quite short. The tests are fair and emphasize problem-solving over memorizing concepts. You don't really have to study for them if you pay attention in class.

Bruce Jacob
ENEE350H

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/11/2011

I took this class in the fall of 2009 with Jacob. His teaching style is so interesting and engaging that even if you don't go to your classes, you'll want to go to his. He will go out of his way for students and he will also teach you about topics that YOU can pick because YOU find it interesting! The class was pretty easy but it was intellectually stimulating - it was only easy because Jacob is really a great professor, so I'd give him a lot of credit. You will learn a lot and really enjoy the class with him! :)

Ankur Srivastava
ENEE350H

sashah
12/13/2010

I, like most people, only review professors I really hate on this site, so for a change I thought I'd review a professor I actually liked. Srivastava is the kind of professor who definitely shows a passion for the teaching computer organization. I find this to be a rare quality among professors in the engineering department, many of whom act like teaching is a collateral responsibility for getting funded research. Srivastava makes it a point to make sure every student in the class understands a topic before moving forward. I know this is only feasible because of the small class size of an honors section, but that trait gives me lots of respect for him. I can honestly say he is the ONLY professor from whom I pretty much learned everything during lecture, using the textbook only as a supplementary resource. In all my classes it's the other way around. Yes his exams can be difficult, but I think the depth of his questions is commensurate with the detail he goes into during lecture, so if you pay attention you should be fine. The only complain I have against him, which may sound ironic, is that he doesn't give enough homework. We only had 5 assignments throughout the semester, and each one took about 30 minutes to complete - unheard of for an engineering class. Why is this bad? Because I feel homework is the best way to get a grasp of the material. I feel so much more confident about a topic after I just did a rigorous problem set on it. Sure you can say one could do their own problems sets, but honestly, no one does that. So other than that complaint, I thoroughly enjoyed the class.

Bruce Jacob
ENEE350H

vbury
12/17/2009

This guy is the best professor I've had at UMD hands down. He's one of the few professors that still understands what it means to be a student, so he'll teach you stuff you actually use after you graduate. I wasn't lucky enough to have him for ENES100, so when I saw he was teaching this class I immediately jumped at the chance. If you ever have an opportunity to take him, DO IT. You will not regret it.

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