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James Green ENES460 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/28/2023	I took ENES460 online over the winter session. This course is mainly common sense and by the end, I was no longer watching any of the videos. I was just completing the assignments. You do not need his book to succeed. The assignments are very condensed in the winter session, so plan ahead because you have to conduct a lot of interviews. The feedback he provided didn't feel personalized.
Cait von Schnetlage ENES460 Anonymous 01/23/2021	Course material is easy, but this professor never responds to emails or messages or anything. Never received feedback on grades or even a rubric to go with assignments.
James Green ENES460 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/11/2021	Class is a joke but it's an easy A. The whole class revolves around a group project so make sure you choose good partners. My parents did very little work and I had to carry the load.
James Green ENES460 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/20/2013	He never responds to emails. Or if you ask something he doesn't want to answer too, he just wont respond. I had to make up 3 different fake emails just to talk to him. unbelievable. Get your act together man, what kind of unprofessional teacher are you.
James Green ENES460 Expecting an A Anonymous 07/11/2010	The course was so poorly depicted in the syllabus that I had to schedule a meeting with the professor on campus. Also, his grading was just simply unfair. For one assignment, there were 3 criteria outlined by the syllabus, when I got my grade back I was shocked that it was as low as it was. Turns out that the rubric that he sent me had over 30 criteria listed on it! How is that fair? And no, even after I questioned him about this, he refused to change my grade or allow for any make up work. I asked him why he couldn't have just sent everyone the rubric and he said "well, it's a senior class". I'm still not entirely sure why that makes a difference. He also said that, based on the semester, he grades more leniently or more difficultly. I know someone, a guy on the football team, who took this class in a winter session and he got A's on every single assignment without putting forth any real effort. I, who am in the Honors school, have had to dedicate huge amounts of time to these papers, and only have 1 A paper. What really gets me is that the syllabus never changed! How can you grade two semesters so differently when the syllabus doesn't change at all? The class should have been better planned. We had about two weeks to complete the first, smallest assignment and then about a week for each successive assignment. Then the very last, most important, hardest assignment came around and he gave us 4 days! Why couldn't the assignments have been spread out better to avoid us having to write 20 pages and plan 30 minute presentation in 4 days? Lastly, the professor had a discussion board on ELMS that he liked to use for questions, because this way there wouldn't be repeats. I thought this was a good idea until I asked a question myself. With our final project due in less than 2 days it took our professor about a day and a half to answer one of these questions. (The question wasn't mine but I had the same question). It just seems to me like he didn't care about his students needs at all. I originally took this class because I read some reviews about this professor and heard he was a great guy. Well, he seemed nice while I watched him on our video lectures, but he was a real disappointment in person.

James Green
ENES460

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/28/2023

I took ENES460 online over the winter session. This course is mainly common sense and by the end, I was no longer watching any of the videos. I was just completing the assignments. You do not need his book to succeed. The assignments are very condensed in the winter session, so plan ahead because you have to conduct a lot of interviews. The feedback he provided didn't feel personalized.

Cait von Schnetlage
ENES460

Anonymous
01/23/2021

Course material is easy, but this professor never responds to emails or messages or anything. Never received feedback on grades or even a rubric to go with assignments.

James Green
ENES460

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/11/2021

Class is a joke but it's an easy A. The whole class revolves around a group project so make sure you choose good partners. My parents did very little work and I had to carry the load.

James Green
ENES460

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/20/2013

He never responds to emails. Or if you ask something he doesn't want to answer too, he just wont respond. I had to make up 3 different fake emails just to talk to him. unbelievable. Get your act together man, what kind of unprofessional teacher are you.

James Green
ENES460

Expecting an A
Anonymous
07/11/2010

The course was so poorly depicted in the syllabus that I had to schedule a meeting with the professor on campus. Also, his grading was just simply unfair. For one assignment, there were 3 criteria outlined by the syllabus, when I got my grade back I was shocked that it was as low as it was. Turns out that the rubric that he sent me had over 30 criteria listed on it! How is that fair? And no, even after I questioned him about this, he refused to change my grade or allow for any make up work. I asked him why he couldn't have just sent everyone the rubric and he said "well, it's a senior class". I'm still not entirely sure why that makes a difference. He also said that, based on the semester, he grades more leniently or more difficultly. I know someone, a guy on the football team, who took this class in a winter session and he got A's on every single assignment without putting forth any real effort. I, who am in the Honors school, have had to dedicate huge amounts of time to these papers, and only have 1 A paper. What really gets me is that the syllabus never changed! How can you grade two semesters so differently when the syllabus doesn't change at all? The class should have been better planned. We had about two weeks to complete the first, smallest assignment and then about a week for each successive assignment. Then the very last, most important, hardest assignment came around and he gave us 4 days! Why couldn't the assignments have been spread out better to avoid us having to write 20 pages and plan 30 minute presentation in 4 days? Lastly, the professor had a discussion board on ELMS that he liked to use for questions, because this way there wouldn't be repeats. I thought this was a good idea until I asked a question myself. With our final project due in less than 2 days it took our professor about a day and a half to answer one of these questions. (The question wasn't mine but I had the same question). It just seems to me like he didn't care about his students needs at all. I originally took this class because I read some reviews about this professor and heard he was a great guy. Well, he seemed nice while I watched him on our video lectures, but he was a real disappointment in person.

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