Reviews for ENEE461

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William Levine
ENEE461

Expecting an A
Anonymous
06/01/2024 		Mixed feelings about him. Nice guy but not a very interesting lecturer and a tough grader. By halfway through the semester, he had finished all of the lecture content related to the labs, so the majority of the lectures onwards were supplementary (if you REALLY like controls then these lectures are for you). We had 4 lab projects during the semester, each of them taking a few weeks. They were pretty doable, but this was due in part to the lab manager, Jay Renner, being really helpful. Sometimes, the lab manuals were unclear/disorganized, which made labs take longer than they should've. There was also an end-of-the-semester "capstone" project where each lab group would have to design their own controls machine, which was not clearly advertised when I signed up for the class. We had around 2-3 weeks to work on this, and while they didn't necessarily need to work, the expectations of building such a project in the limited time span was stressful. Lab reports were worth the bulk of the course grade. Dr. Levine graded each of the reports himself. His grading was heavily biased towards how data was documented and graphed on the lab reports, so if your graphs weren't up to par with his standards, he would dock a considerable amount of points. His feedback on the reports also wasn't very helpful, comments usually being a few vague words of criticism. The only saving grace to his grading was that he offered an extra credit opportunity (which I'm not sure how much it was worth but it was sizable). I'm not a big fan of Dr. Levine, but the class is definitely doable.
William Levine
ENEE461

Expecting a B+
soheikitsune
05/10/2015 		Not very fair as a grader. I lost a lot of points on lab reports for not including graphs that were not explicitly asked for in the lab manual, and they were not obviously supposed to be included. As a professor he's alright, but I learned a lot more from simply doing the labs and asking the lab tech Jay Renner for explanations. The labs are challenging and interesting, but the reports should absolutely be more explicit on what they want from you in the first place.