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Xinan Liu ENME350 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/23/2023	Liu did nothing the whole semester. He once lectured instead of Kim but was totally unhelpful. In lab, he makes the TFs do all the work anyway, and always left within the first 20 mins. It seems a lot of people thought he was funny with his "no mistakes" spiel, but really it came across as syrupy, patronizing nonsense. He quite frankly made me mad every time he tried to give advice or technical instruction because of the ungenuine smile.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a C- Anonymous 05/18/2023	This is a very tough class. Kim is a very clear lecturer and he's always willing to answer questions. That being said he is not at all accommodating or understanding, he's definitely of the school of thought that if he suffered everyone else needs to suffer too. 8 am lectures with homeworks due within the first 4 minutes of class hard copy on his desk, he absolutely can and will turn you away if you are a second late. There will be a homework for every single lecture with few exceptions (even had a homework due before exam once). He'll drop 5, but the homework is hard so to get a good overall score on homework it's definitely best to just do all of them (if you have a friend in the class they can drop off your homework for you if you have to miss class). Missing class is very detrimental, the concepts can be tough to grasp and all build on each other and homework is based on that days material so even one missed lecture makes you life absolutely miserable. The labs are tedious but not terribly difficult. He says he likes for his exams to be "a learning experience" so he'll throw new stuff at you, so even if you've been doing the homework and attending lecture you can still get tripped up but they're generous with partial credit. There will also be absolutely no way to judge how you are doing in the class, they'll give a rough estimate of your possible grade on the midterms but not the final and the actual curve is based on total points as it compares to the rest of the class. Curve is nice though, I had a 55% and still passed. As long as you put in the work it's doable.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting an A- tortoise7 05/18/2023	I honestly think he's a very talented and easy to understand lecturer. However, he makes his exams quite difficult and attendance for the 8 am class wasn't "mandatory" but a homework turned in on paper is due at the start of every class which isn't an exam day. Your five lowest scores are dropped, but there were 26 homeworks in total. I agree people learn better in person, but this could make life difficult often. These homeworks, along with the labs, should be done carefully because they will carry your grade (midterm averages were a little above %50 and the final was about a %66).
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/13/2023	-very good lecturer, HW due at 8 is an L but worth coming cuz he doesn't upload notes -midterms get easier and there was more than enough time on the final -hw itself is much better than other 300 ME courses (wiley cough cough) -lab is pretty much optional as you can just do them at home and uploaded to gradescope. -Prelab hw is the worse so start super early. -when u can use circuit lab to verify ur hw ans and lab ans
Xinan Liu ENME350 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/28/2022	On the rare occasion that Prof Liu gives lectures instead of Professor Kim, it's very difficult to follow and he goes too quickly, but that's not his primary job in this course. Mostly what he does is oversee lab and host office hours. In both of these roles, he is a nice guy who will really try to help you succeed. When he says "just don't make mistakes," it's more of a language barrier thing than him being rude.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/28/2022	Dr. Kim is a very good lecturer, but he takes pride in his class being really hard, which is a problematic educational philosophy. He tries to scare you into thinking you will fail his class, but if you put in effort, you will pass (it's very hard to get an A, but I don't think it's that hard to get a C-). Despite his scary demeanor, I do think he cares on the inside and wants people who try hard to succeed. The exams are extremely difficult but heavily curved -- I got a 19/60 on the first exam and still got a B in the class. Overall, it's just one of those classes you kinda have to suffer through, but it's not as bad as it could be.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a C- Anonymous 12/21/2022	You will learn a lot in this class but gauged by your own effort. Jungho is seen as a great teacher but is not useful. He disappeared before both of our midterms during the semester. Grades on midterms are unbearable and there is no true way to gauge your actual grade until the end of the semester. Get a good edition of the book and hold it dear. Also, if you don’t do well on exams, try your best to get above average on labs and homeworks and you may yet stand a chance.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/02/2022	I have had experience with electronics, so this class was easy. That said, if you do not have previous experience, I would say give yourself more time to figure things out. That is why he lost a star; he assumes you have more context than lots of people have. I have that context, but other people don't. One thing that helped is that I learned how to make complex circuits in CircuitLab, but I had to be careful because sometimes CircuitLab got some problems wrong. For harder/longer questions on exams, I got few correct numerical answers, but I still got plenty of partial credit. He cares a lot about exactly correct setup for your equations, which is a decent way to approach grading.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a C Anonymous 05/15/2022	I really enjoyed this class but it is needlessly difficult. Labs are easy enough, you need to do them all and get 100s because that will save your grade. I actually really liked doing the labs, very cool to see how these things work. Also you really don't need to attend lab, I stopped halfway through the semester. You can do it all from home. Homework ranges from being a total joke to complete frustration. He's a good lecturer to a point. He explains things well, but it's very common for the homework to be incredibly difficult to anything shown in class. Textbook is basically useless. Exams are.. interesting. I'd say they're graded somewhat leniently based on how lost I felt the whole time. He's going to give you stuff that just makes you say "WTF." Somehow a lot of kids ace the tests. I really wish I knew how they did so much better. I never felt like I had enough practice material to really do well in this class. The practice material given was equally WTF so I had a really hard time learning. Really needed some more material of medium difficulty. I could do the easy stuff, but I feel that there's a massive divide between the easy stuff and the exam questions with nothing to help you broach that gap.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/04/2022	Kim is a very good lecturer. He goes slowly with the notes, making sure students have time to copy everything down and when he makes a mistake in his notes, he acknowledges and corrects them when students call him out for it. But this course is harder than it probably needs to be. Sometimes the homeworks are very straight forward and come straight from lecture note, and sometimes they require a lot of self-teaching. The exams remind of physics where everyone is expected to fail. The average for our first exam was 25/60. And sometimes the questions on exams go beyond what we learned in class and require us to figure out stuff on the fly, during the exam.
Xinan Liu ENME350 Anonymous 12/27/2021	"Don't make mistakes! Students lose points because they make mistakes." Liu often says the way to be successful for 350 is to not make mistakes which is the most useless thing to say. He has a heavy accent (not his fault of course) and talks fast, so it is hard to understand him at times. He seems like he's trying to be funny and lighthearted, but when he tries to help students, they often are left more confused. Liu leads the lab portion of 350, and also works with Kim to write and grade the exams. He is a harsh grader on exams, but easy-going on lab assignments.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/27/2021	This course is taught much harder than it has to be, and sadly, Kim is the only lecturer for it. The lectures and notes that Kim writes are easy to follow, but the homework is more difficult than what is taught in the lecture, and then the exams are twice as hard/confusing as the homework was. From the notes to the homework, to the exams, it gets exponentially harder. The exam scores are just below 50% so they apply a heavy curve at the end of the semester. As long as you are at the average or within the standard deviation, you will pass. Labs are doable, but the TAs may not be the most helpful. They also do not understand the program needed for the labs, so they will probably know just as much as you do (as in not much). The pre-labs take a fair amount of time, so do not wait until the night before to get started. You can review the material as much as you want, and attempt the practice problems, but the exam questions will be much more complicated somehow. Kim appears nice, but is difficult one on one, and is very strict with turning in homework. You HAVE to turn it in in person, and no later than 5 minutes after class starts, otherwise, he will not accept it. The course is UNNECCSSAIRLY hard, but if you're at the mean/within the standard deviation, you will pass.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a D Anonymous 08/16/2021	This class caused me so much pain. I took this class in the Spring of 2021. He's the only professor who teaches 350. He is a good lecturer and I understand he wants his students to learn and understand the material but he is very harsh and is not so nice. In order to do well in this class, you HAVE to understand the concepts which is where I struggled. The amount of practice problems I spent in this class did not matter because I did not understand the concept. I went to his office hours multiple times and he would get mad at me for not understanding the material so I just went to the TA's office hours instead. The exams were difficult for me, no matter how much I studied, I would still do poorly on exams. He barely gives credit on exams, either you got the question correct or you did not. If you attempted the problem "correctly" he would give 2 points, if you attempted the problem but did not have the right work it's a 0. There was so much work in this class that I had to drop one of my other classes and I still didn't pass. I was 3 percentage points away from passing the class so I emailed him hoping he could boost my grade up a little but he did not. This was one of the worst classes I have taken.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a C- Anonymous 01/04/2021	Jungho, gonna Jungho tbh. Fair professor, tough grader, lots of work due each week, but you do learn a lot. Dr. Kim is a worthy adversary. 25 HW's, 10Labs, and 3 exams. Since class avg on exams are almost always failing, class is curved, but this means that 10-12% will fail each semester by default :)
Xinan Liu ENME350 Expecting a C Anonymous 11/21/2020	I go to this man's office hours any day over jungho's. Prof Liu is patient, smart, and will try to make you laugh. The course is hard af tho.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/22/2018	Material is very difficult, but he explains it well. Homework is somewhat original so you will have to do some of it on your own. (I know y'all like to chegg everything) Also it is due at 8:05:00 AM on the dot in class and I twisted my ankle trying to turn the homework in on time once. (Got it in though) At the end, he grades on a bell curve, so it doesn't matter that the exam averages are in the 60's - I believe I had a 79 at the end and that became a B+.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/19/2015	He is probably the best lecturer in the Mech E department, but perhaps one of the worst outside of class. He is not available at times he says he will be, will not respond to email, and will try to shoo you away when he is in office. It is better to try and talk to the lab professor, Liu. He grades pretty harshly, but the entire class is curved against itself, so everyone is in the same boat. He is certainly intelligent but also rather arrogant.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a B parade 01/13/2015	Not easy but no impossible either. This was a fair class but Kim is a fantastic professor. I came into the class with no knowledge of electronics and came out with a lot of knowledge and am not very comfortable with circuits. However this class is a lot of work and there is homework due each lecture. The class is curved but not enough. Would still recommend him though!
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a B jschel 12/09/2014	Hard, but good. He expects a lot out of students, but he's a good lecturer and a fair grader. Tests were hard, but he curved if the average was too low. Friendly, intelligent, and helpful. Sometimes if I went to his office with a question, he'd get a little impatient if I didn't understand right away, but I could tell that he was trying to be patient and not show it. Perhaps just a touch of ego, but it doesn't come through much. Don't take his class for an easy A, but I think I would recommend him if you want to learn it thoroughly.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a C cheesecake 11/23/2014	Good lecturer, but tests are extremely difficult and partial credit is very hard to come by. Homework is due twice a week as well.
Jungho Kim ENME350 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/21/2013	I did not find him very effective as a lecturer. Wasn't very clear when explaining complicated topics and did practically everything from the book. Graded far too harshly for anything other than the exact right answer.