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Cecilia Huertas Cerdeira ENME331 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/23/2023	Dr Huertas goes pretty fast because she is often not speaking to the class. She simply copies what she has written on her notes. This means many students miss important content when she makes a new slide to scrawl fast on. There was no support for understanding the material, since the TAs were pretty useless. Nobody responded to emails promptly, so homework questions often went unanswered until well after it was due. The professor moved through topics without reviewing their purpose or relationship to other chapters, meaning everything felt very pointless until we were forced to put it all together for homework. Also, much of the syntax she uses is not consistent with the TAs and textbook. The other professor, Dr Riaz has similar problems with his teaching.
Cecilia Huertas Cerdeira ENME331 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/21/2023	this time around she taught lecture and riaz did the studios. tbh lectures were just boring and her writing on the slides with the pwerpoint drawing tool is p bad to read over but she super nice. there is always never enough practice for the midterms and final which is y everyone did p bad on them. she knows her stuff but cant teach well. my advice just skip and watch dr Biddle on youtube
Amir Riaz ENME331 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/25/2022	I honestly don’t see why Riaz doesn’t have a higher rating. His lectures are very useful and he has them posted so you can refer back to them. The lectures are pretty straightforward and relatively easy to understand. He is a VERY accommodating professor, he allowed me to make up homework’s and even a midterm when I really didn’t have a good reason to miss them. Midterms are usually pretty reasonable, and are very very similar to the practice exam he gives to you. His lectures are pretty quick but that’s to be expected for a class that’s only 50 minutes long, with the amount of content we have to learn. The text book sucks pretty hard tho. They seem to overcomplicate a lot of topics so I do not recommend using it. Labs are kind of a pain, but there’s only 6 of them. The grade distribution is beautiful, 20% midterm 1 20% midterm 2 20% labs 20% HW 20% final It’s a very fair distribution. If you study an average amount you can easily get a B or better
Amir Riaz ENME331 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/04/2022	Riaz is an alright teacher. He is kind and responsive to students concerns but the lectures are not good. He goes through derivations far two quickly and his hand writing isn't always the best which can get confusing when there are so many similar variables used in fluid mechanics. Also the problems he presents in studio sessions are very difficult and often confusing. However, he does occasionally take the last ten minutes of class to do a non-graded knowledge check as a class, through a google form, and that was helpful. Also the exam review sessions and practice exams are well prepared and the exams are easier than I had expected. He is also a very kind grader on exams.
Cecilia Huertas Cerdeira ENME331 Anonymous 12/27/2021	Huertas led the studio sessions and review sessions before exams. I think she is new and is learning how to teach a college course. She is kind of awkward but wants students to get involved. In-studio she asked questions for students to answer/help out while solving a problem, but no one raised their hands, so eventually, she stopped asking. Huertas is not consistent with writing out solutions where she will either show a lot of steps or skip some steps. Sometimes her work has an error or two. She is new, so cut her some slack, but could be better, could be worse. She does know the content, but learning how to teach it is the challenge.
Amir Riaz ENME331 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/27/2021	Riaz was an okay teacher. He's not bad, but not great, and probably could have passed the course without attending the lectures. The lectures were not necessary since he posts all lecture slides a day or so later. He likes questions, but may not understand your question entirely, so asking one on one at OH would be more helpful. The studios are where you will learn the most on how to solve problems. Homeworks were the most challenging, but still helpful. Exams were easier than the studios/homework, but studying from the studio problems and homework is the best way to prepare. Riaz also has a review session in the class before an exam which can be helpful. The course content seems very challenging and confusing, but the exams are doable.
Amir Riaz ENME331 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/01/2021	He's a nice guy and he knows his stuff. I will say that. But the lectures are mostly derivations and the material is generally useless until you do example problems in studio. The exams are fair and easier than the homework problems. If you get him for studio, he does do a good job of explaining the concepts better in a smaller setting. That being said, I probably zoned out for most of the lectures throughout the semester and did fine in the class strictly because of studios.
Amir Riaz ENME331 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/22/2018	I'm sure Riaz knows what he's talking about, but he really doesn't make it evident in his lectures. He'll click through slides that I don't believe he made himself and often when students ask questions he is unable to answer them. He's a poor lecturer and frankly, I'm not sure why I continued to attend the class when I knew it was more effective to learn the material from the textbook.
James Duncan ENME331 Expecting a B cheesecake 06/04/2015	Lectures were completely useless and nearly impossible to follow. Spends way too much time on derivations and does not like going through example problems. Fluids Mechanics overall is not too difficult of a class and the material makes sense more or less, so if these lectures were even a bit more effective, this class would be a lot easier. Duncan is a really nice person, but not a good teacher for 331.
James Duncan ENME331 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/19/2015	His lectures are pretty difficult to follow. Throughout the semester I generally had no idea what was going on in lecture. He spends the vast majority of time going over proofs and doing math, but he did very little to explain what any of it actually meant physically.
James Duncan ENME331 Expecting a B parade 01/13/2015	Did not learn a single thing from lecture all semester long. All he does is perform complex derivations throughout the entire lecture, everyone looks around at each other wondering what on earth is going on. I like to joke with my friends that he just wants to see how many partial derivatives he can fit on the board at once. Don't take him. With regards to the class itself, it's not too bad you can look everything required from the homework.
Kenneth Kiger ENME331 Anonymous 12/21/2013	Taught the class theoretically, examined the class with complicated problems that left a good amount of people confused as to how to tackle problems. Did not help that he rarely did example problems. I would not recommend him
Kenneth Kiger ENME331 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/26/2013	he's too smart for his own good and in fact for the students. he spends most of the class time doing proofs that only he will be able to understand and makes everyone feel stupid in the process. it doesnt take much effort to pass but in order to get an A you really need to dedicate your life to understanding him otherwise you'll be caught off guard when the test is given
Kenneth Kiger ENME331 Anonymous 05/19/2011	Kiger is the worst professor you could possibly have! He makes your life unnecessarily hard and thinks that the world revolves around him. He lives completely in his own fluid world and does not understand what he puts his students through. I strongly advise anyone who is about to sign up for his classes to switch professors!!! I think he enjoys making our lives hard.
Kenneth Kiger ENME331 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 02/27/2008	KENNY KIGER THE TIGER!!! This man is legenDARY. He's hard but he knows his stuff. In discussion and office hours he will clarify anything you need to know. You will be overwhelmed by his amazing knowledge. You will work your ass off, but he's fair overall compared to the other professors. PS. Get Nikolaos as your TA, he owns.