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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.