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Danilo Romero ENEE411 Expecting an A Anonymous 07/17/2025	Took this class during the summer first term. Having taken ENEE304 and did very well in it (understood the concepts and got an A), I was excited for this class but was severely disappointed and felt like I wasted my time and money. The professor is nice personality wise but that is about as good as it gets. His lectures are boring, the slides did not make any sense, and it is hard to follow. At first, the class was okay as it was a review from 304 but then it picked up and I had no clue what was going on. The slides had all of these equations with no explanations as to what each variable was. Lots of graphs and diagrams with no concepts explained. When the professor would go through examples, the handwriting was hard to understand. The homeworks were no where near the examples we did and class and often I found myself deeply reading the textbook and constantly looking up things to understand the concepts. We didn’t have exams in the summer part of the class, but according to the syllabus, we were supposed to have homework assignments and simulation assignments. I assumed the simulation assignments in LTSpice would have instructions you would follow to do circuit problems to understand the full functionality of LTSpice and all the features it has to offer. But I was wrong. The homeworks asked you to simulate the circuit to cross check the hand calculations but we were not adequately shown how to use LTSpice other than in the lectures but even then, the professor just clicks around but doesn’t explain step by step what he was doing. I had to teach myself along with Google how to use LTSpice. The worst part of everything, was nothing was graded! I never received a grade on any of my homeworks. We had a total of 4 homeworks. Some worth 100 points, one worth 200 and one worth 300 points. I never ever received a grade on any of them! No answer keys were posted besides homework 1. I had absolutely no idea (and still have no idea) how I did in the class. During one of the Zoom lectures, I asked when we would receive grades on the homework and he told us that everything would be graded AFTER the summer class was over. So once the class was done, we would THEN see how we did. Not before. So my grade in the class was out of my hands once it ended. The class ended July 11th and I am writing this on July 16th. My grade is on Testudo and I received an A. However, no grades were put into Canvas. So did I even get an A because I did WELL and earned it? Or did he just give everyone an A because there were only 8 students in the class? Don’t know! There was no feedback given at all from this professor. Im happy to have gotten the passing grade of course but the principle behind it and the logistics of this class are what bugged me the most, especially considering I paid for this class and these concepts in the class are an essential part of my career!
Danilo Romero ENEE411 Expecting a W Anonymous 06/08/2024	Lectures are dull. He offers little/no explanation of how the formulas are applied in the problems he expects us to solve, leaving us with a million equations and little/no understanding of how to apply them. His course is disorganized, and his lecture slides contain frequent errors. This applies to my experience with his 322 course as well. Avoid if you can.
Pamela Abshire ENEE411 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/20/2022	Professor Abshire is a decent professor as in all the information is on her slides. Her slides are exactly like the textbook so if you dont like reading the textbook, all the info is on her slides. However, her class is heavy in workload and she grades very harshly. I would not recommend taking her class, She grades extemely slowly. Our midterms were graded one day before the last day of classes! So you wont know how you are truly doing. Quizzes are hard. Homework is extremely difficult. She does not communicate with her TA so sometimes the TA will give you the wrong answer or will be different than her expectations. She is a nice person...when her personal life isnt getting in the way of her attitude. She gets easily frustrated if you come to her with a question when her personal life is in a crisis so beware. you may be demoralized. Her grading scheme though is extremely fair. You will pass this class as long as you put in effort. You will learn a lot, but that learning is dependent on the effort YOU put in, she does NOT hold your hand and you need to understand the matieral inside and out otherwise you will fail. This class should be 4 credits and will take up and consume your life.
Pamela Abshire ENEE411 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/14/2021	Professor Abshire is a great teacher in class and is pretty helpful outside of class. She also held a review session for all the exams we had (and ordered pizza for us). She was very approachable and was generous with giving help to those who needed it. If it weren't for the downsides, I would probably take her again. I didn't like how the quizzes and homework assignments would sometimes require knowledge of material that she hadn't covered yet (I assume she wrote all of them before the start of the semester). She never changed any quizzes or homeworks to reflect where she had actually gotten to in class. So if she got a bit behind in class, then the homework would be much harder to complete. The class was very heavy in workload (long homework assignments for most weeks) and had pretty challenging exams. On the exams, there were some short answer questions followed by 2 pairs of long-answer questions. For the long-answer questions, you could just pick one from each pair, and do the other ones for extra credit. I appreciated the extra credit, because I would have gotten a much lower score without it. As others have said before me, she is very, very slow at grading. Our homework assignments were graded by the TA, so they were usually in within 1-2 weeks. However, the midterm (graded by her) was given on October 20th, and was not graded until the last day of class. A minor-to-medium gripe I had while we were giving presentations was that she initially said she would cut people off after 5 minutes, in order to leave enough time for everyone to present before the end of class. However, several people gave presentations that were much longer (10 minutes), and she did not cut any of them off. This led to the last 3-4 people having to present after class. I just didn't like how she was generally bad at keeping her word. You will learn a lot from this course, but expect to be spending a lot of time and effort on it. Her grading cutoffs are pretty generous though (80 percent for A-, 50 percent for C-).
Pamela Abshire ENEE411 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/11/2018	Professor Abshire is a pretty good professor. She teaches with PowerPoint slides (which some people prefer), so you're better off not taking notes but instead printing out the slides and annotating them during the lecture. I can definitely say that I learned a lot from this course. The biggest complaint I have about her is the grading. She took over a month to grade the midterm, and three weeks to grade the final exam. By the time of the final day to withdraw from a course with a W, we only had quiz grades (automatically graded) and one or two homework grades. Basically, you had no idea where you were in the course until near the end.

Danilo Romero
ENEE411

Expecting an A
Anonymous
07/17/2025

Took this class during the summer first term. Having taken ENEE304 and did very well in it (understood the concepts and got an A), I was excited for this class but was severely disappointed and felt like I wasted my time and money. The professor is nice personality wise but that is about as good as it gets. His lectures are boring, the slides did not make any sense, and it is hard to follow. At first, the class was okay as it was a review from 304 but then it picked up and I had no clue what was going on. The slides had all of these equations with no explanations as to what each variable was. Lots of graphs and diagrams with no concepts explained. When the professor would go through examples, the handwriting was hard to understand. The homeworks were no where near the examples we did and class and often I found myself deeply reading the textbook and constantly looking up things to understand the concepts. We didn’t have exams in the summer part of the class, but according to the syllabus, we were supposed to have homework assignments and simulation assignments. I assumed the simulation assignments in LTSpice would have instructions you would follow to do circuit problems to understand the full functionality of LTSpice and all the features it has to offer. But I was wrong. The homeworks asked you to simulate the circuit to cross check the hand calculations but we were not adequately shown how to use LTSpice other than in the lectures but even then, the professor just clicks around but doesn’t explain step by step what he was doing. I had to teach myself along with Google how to use LTSpice. The worst part of everything, was nothing was graded! I never received a grade on any of my homeworks. We had a total of 4 homeworks. Some worth 100 points, one worth 200 and one worth 300 points. I never ever received a grade on any of them! No answer keys were posted besides homework 1. I had absolutely no idea (and still have no idea) how I did in the class. During one of the Zoom lectures, I asked when we would receive grades on the homework and he told us that everything would be graded AFTER the summer class was over. So once the class was done, we would THEN see how we did. Not before. So my grade in the class was out of my hands once it ended. The class ended July 11th and I am writing this on July 16th. My grade is on Testudo and I received an A. However, no grades were put into Canvas. So did I even get an A because I did WELL and earned it? Or did he just give everyone an A because there were only 8 students in the class? Don’t know! There was no feedback given at all from this professor. Im happy to have gotten the passing grade of course but the principle behind it and the logistics of this class are what bugged me the most, especially considering I paid for this class and these concepts in the class are an essential part of my career!

Danilo Romero
ENEE411

Expecting a W
Anonymous
06/08/2024

Lectures are dull. He offers little/no explanation of how the formulas are applied in the problems he expects us to solve, leaving us with a million equations and little/no understanding of how to apply them. His course is disorganized, and his lecture slides contain frequent errors. This applies to my experience with his 322 course as well. Avoid if you can.

Pamela Abshire
ENEE411

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
01/20/2022

Professor Abshire is a decent professor as in all the information is on her slides. Her slides are exactly like the textbook so if you dont like reading the textbook, all the info is on her slides. However, her class is heavy in workload and she grades very harshly. I would not recommend taking her class, She grades extemely slowly. Our midterms were graded one day before the last day of classes! So you wont know how you are truly doing. Quizzes are hard. Homework is extremely difficult. She does not communicate with her TA so sometimes the TA will give you the wrong answer or will be different than her expectations. She is a nice person...when her personal life isnt getting in the way of her attitude. She gets easily frustrated if you come to her with a question when her personal life is in a crisis so beware. you may be demoralized. Her grading scheme though is extremely fair. You will pass this class as long as you put in effort. You will learn a lot, but that learning is dependent on the effort YOU put in, she does NOT hold your hand and you need to understand the matieral inside and out otherwise you will fail. This class should be 4 credits and will take up and consume your life.

Pamela Abshire
ENEE411

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/14/2021

Professor Abshire is a great teacher in class and is pretty helpful outside of class. She also held a review session for all the exams we had (and ordered pizza for us). She was very approachable and was generous with giving help to those who needed it. If it weren't for the downsides, I would probably take her again. I didn't like how the quizzes and homework assignments would sometimes require knowledge of material that she hadn't covered yet (I assume she wrote all of them before the start of the semester). She never changed any quizzes or homeworks to reflect where she had actually gotten to in class. So if she got a bit behind in class, then the homework would be much harder to complete. The class was very heavy in workload (long homework assignments for most weeks) and had pretty challenging exams. On the exams, there were some short answer questions followed by 2 pairs of long-answer questions. For the long-answer questions, you could just pick one from each pair, and do the other ones for extra credit. I appreciated the extra credit, because I would have gotten a much lower score without it. As others have said before me, she is very, very slow at grading. Our homework assignments were graded by the TA, so they were usually in within 1-2 weeks. However, the midterm (graded by her) was given on October 20th, and was not graded until the last day of class. A minor-to-medium gripe I had while we were giving presentations was that she initially said she would cut people off after 5 minutes, in order to leave enough time for everyone to present before the end of class. However, several people gave presentations that were much longer (10 minutes), and she did not cut any of them off. This led to the last 3-4 people having to present after class. I just didn't like how she was generally bad at keeping her word. You will learn a lot from this course, but expect to be spending a lot of time and effort on it. Her grading cutoffs are pretty generous though (80 percent for A-, 50 percent for C-).

Pamela Abshire
ENEE411

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/11/2018

Professor Abshire is a pretty good professor. She teaches with PowerPoint slides (which some people prefer), so you're better off not taking notes but instead printing out the slides and annotating them during the lecture. I can definitely say that I learned a lot from this course. The biggest complaint I have about her is the grading. She took over a month to grade the midterm, and three weeks to grade the final exam. By the time of the final day to withdraw from a course with a W, we only had quiz grades (automatically graded) and one or two homework grades. Basically, you had no idea where you were in the course until near the end.

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