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Vincent Nguyen ENME371 Anonymous 10/16/2024	He says a lot of words but means nothing at all. He just talks to fill blank space.
Vincent Nguyen ENME371 Anonymous 08/22/2024	Pros: You learn how to work as a team and Vince loves to give help. Really hard to fail ENME371 Cons: Vince is a really harsh grader. (His definition of a perfect assignment is 90% and to earn more points you need to go beyond his expectations) The time spent in this class. (10-25 hours per week)
Vincent Nguyen ENME371 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/27/2023	The thing about this class is it's really hard to get an A or A+ but it's also really hard to get a C and literally no one fails. If you want in A you're going to have to put in a frankly ridiculous amount of work. I'd regularly put in 25-30 hours on top of lecture and lab time on each lab assignment. Honestly you're probably better off putting in less work and just being happy with a B and focusing on your other classes. I pulled way to many all-nighters for this stupid class. Not worth it. Also do anything you can to avoid having him as your section teacher, he grades super super harshly compared to the others. I don't think we had a single assignment where the lowest grade in the entire class wasn't someone in our section.
Vincent Nguyen ENME371 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/22/2023	This class should be at least a 4 or 5 credits class in terms of the course load. Even though Dr. Vince is a very knowledgeable guy, he does not know what kind of pain students are going through while taking his class. He will assign as many reports as possible so that you will have to at least dedicate 8-10 hours outside of lecture time for the reports. The grading for his sections is especially tough and not reasonable compared to other groups.
Vincent Nguyen ENME371 Expecting a P Anonymous 04/22/2023	teacher demands too much out of students. class drains my time and mental capacity. idk how this is allowed. he has absolutely no guilt either. id love to see him put 10 hrs a week on top of lecture ...
Vincent Nguyen ENME371 Expecting a P Anonymous 03/15/2023	horrible , has no respect for students time. He must legitmatley think his course is the only course we are taking. probabaly have to dedicate 20 -25 hours a week for this class a week a report is due... which is every week
Mohammad Fazelpour ENME371 Expecting an A- Anonymous 08/04/2022	Dr. Fazelpour was a section leader for 371, and he was one of the better one. In studios/lab, he more so just answered questions while the TF set up and knew the lab procedure. Dr. Fazelpour graded more so on formatting and consistency rather than content, unless there was a major issue with the data. Dr. Fazelpour was a fair grader and professor, so if you see him as a section leader, switch to his section!
Vincent Nguyen ENME371 Expecting an A- Anonymous 08/04/2022	371 is broken up by having lecture taught by Vince and then studio sections led by other professors at UMD. Vince led lectures and these were very boring and long. He speaks very fast where he trips over his own words at times, but is a knowledgeable person. To ensure students attend lecture, he does clicker questions, but he will go over and give the answer as long as enough students attempt to answer and participate. Vince does lead one section for studios and you should AVOID him at all cost. His section normally has the lowest averages as Vince is a tough grader. There is a curve applied, but it varies across each section leader (each section has it's own curve). To do well in 371, it really depends on who your group is and who your section leader is. There is a lot of work to be done in studios and outside of class, so having a group of students that do not procrastinate is super helpful. The work is not too challenging, it just is a lot to do and is tedious, especially if you make a mistake in a lab and need to start over.
Vincent Nguyen ENME371 Anonymous 02/22/2021	Vince is very particular professor. He thinks he knows the best way for students to learn and ubiquitously applies that learning methodology across all of his students. For example, requiring students to attend lecture with clicker participation quizzes and then creating weekly quizzes that pretty much check that you went to lecture. He assigns a ton of work to keep you busy. He also speaks very loudly over Zoom. On the other hand, I think his exams are fair, though he is a very harsh grader and is definitely looking out to take off points.
Vincent Nguyen ENME371 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 06/08/2020	Vince is nice and cares about his students BUT he's a tough grader.
Linda Schmidt ENME371 Expecting a B+ cheesecake 12/22/2015	Dr. Schmidt is an extremely peppy and enthusiastic professor that really makes the class more enjoyable to take. She must have changed her teaching style since these last reviews because they don't seem like her at all. I will say she is very defensive of her opinions but I never say her "fighting with students". She does grade harder than the other 371 professors my semester, but if you follow her comments on the reports you should do well.
Linda Schmidt ENME371 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/25/2013	I totally agree with the above review. She is crazy. What kind of teacher is that obsessed with a course. Like calm down, for real. have some more professionalism when teaching a course. literally fighting with students sometimes in class. Please replace engineering department.
Chandrasekhar Thamire ENME371 Expecting an A- kvizzle321 01/02/2012	The most important required ME class in my opinion. Thamire should be teaching this class forever, because he does a great job. Also i was SURE that i had a B+ in the class but managed to get an A, despite him saying that there is no curve in the class, he tends to bump you up if you are really close.
Chandrasekhar Thamire ENME371 Expecting an A jwright5 06/10/2011	Prof. Thamire is an incredible professor. He is knowledgeable about an incredible variety of topics and is very dedicated to ensuring you learn the material in his courses well. Very nice man and an excellent professor.
Chandrasekhar Thamire ENME371 Anonymous 05/18/2011	Dr. Thamire has got to be one of the nicest professors. I had him for both ENME 371 and 221. He is incredibly intelligent, helpful and fair. He will work you hard but you'll learn alot. Oh, and the elephants that he draws are hilarious. Be warned, ENME371 is an incredibly demanding class, it's more like a 6 credit class. It's not necessarily hard, just time consuming and the reports can be somewhat tedious. Make sure you get a section leader who's there for you and fair. I have nothing against Dr. Das personally but he's far too occupied in other things to be a section leader for this class. His grading was largely unclear, unfair, and took FAR too long. The report and presentation grades for other sections were far higher... bear in mind that this class is not curved.
Chandrasekhar Thamire ENME371 Expecting an A edlevin 12/09/2010	Dr. Thamire is one of the Best engineering teachers I have had at the University of Maryland. I would recommend him over and over to anyone looking to take his class. I wish he taught the lab portions of the class as well because he straight up front helps you with ANYTHING you can think of. He even will adjust the class schedule with what is going on in other classes during the semester. Hands down my favorite professor ever!!!
Chandrasekhar Thamire ENME371 Expecting an A jhaan 12/20/2009	The class is not hard, per se, but is extremely money and time intensive. You will find that 3-4 times during the semester you will be pulling all nighters to get papers done on time, or spending a large amount of time studying for quizzes on material that was briefly mentioned in class, never to be seen again. The review for the final was also lengthy, covering the majority of the 800 page textbook. The benefit of all this? You WILL be rewarded for all of your hard work. He grades quite generously and gives several opportunities to fix mistakes. Extra credit quizzes are nice too. The material was sort of iffy for me, but the design project was rewarding in the end. Good guy, good teacher. As an extra note, if you have the choice, get Thamire as your section teacher and not Aris Cleanthous. Aris knows what he is talking about and is knowledgeable, but is difficult to get a hold of and imposes his own arbitrary limitations to reports than what Thamire does. For example, on a Design for X presentation, Thamire's section only had to do a report on a single part, while Aris required two parts to do. The end result being each team rushed through the presentation and went well over the time limit. Not fun.

Vincent Nguyen
ENME371

Anonymous
10/16/2024

He says a lot of words but means nothing at all. He just talks to fill blank space.

Vincent Nguyen
ENME371

Anonymous
08/22/2024

Pros: You learn how to work as a team and Vince loves to give help. Really hard to fail ENME371 Cons: Vince is a really harsh grader. (His definition of a perfect assignment is 90% and to earn more points you need to go beyond his expectations) The time spent in this class. (10-25 hours per week)

Vincent Nguyen
ENME371

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/27/2023

The thing about this class is it's really hard to get an A or A+ but it's also really hard to get a C and literally no one fails. If you want in A you're going to have to put in a frankly ridiculous amount of work. I'd regularly put in 25-30 hours on top of lecture and lab time on each lab assignment. Honestly you're probably better off putting in less work and just being happy with a B and focusing on your other classes. I pulled way to many all-nighters for this stupid class. Not worth it. Also do anything you can to avoid having him as your section teacher, he grades super super harshly compared to the others. I don't think we had a single assignment where the lowest grade in the entire class wasn't someone in our section.

Vincent Nguyen
ENME371

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/22/2023

This class should be at least a 4 or 5 credits class in terms of the course load. Even though Dr. Vince is a very knowledgeable guy, he does not know what kind of pain students are going through while taking his class. He will assign as many reports as possible so that you will have to at least dedicate 8-10 hours outside of lecture time for the reports. The grading for his sections is especially tough and not reasonable compared to other groups.

Vincent Nguyen
ENME371

Expecting a P
Anonymous
04/22/2023

teacher demands too much out of students. class drains my time and mental capacity. idk how this is allowed. he has absolutely no guilt either. id love to see him put 10 hrs a week on top of lecture ...

Vincent Nguyen
ENME371

Expecting a P
Anonymous
03/15/2023

horrible , has no respect for students time. He must legitmatley think his course is the only course we are taking. probabaly have to dedicate 20 -25 hours a week for this class a week a report is due... which is every week

Mohammad Fazelpour
ENME371

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
08/04/2022

Dr. Fazelpour was a section leader for 371, and he was one of the better one. In studios/lab, he more so just answered questions while the TF set up and knew the lab procedure. Dr. Fazelpour graded more so on formatting and consistency rather than content, unless there was a major issue with the data. Dr. Fazelpour was a fair grader and professor, so if you see him as a section leader, switch to his section!

Vincent Nguyen
ENME371

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
08/04/2022

371 is broken up by having lecture taught by Vince and then studio sections led by other professors at UMD. Vince led lectures and these were very boring and long. He speaks very fast where he trips over his own words at times, but is a knowledgeable person. To ensure students attend lecture, he does clicker questions, but he will go over and give the answer as long as enough students attempt to answer and participate. Vince does lead one section for studios and you should AVOID him at all cost. His section normally has the lowest averages as Vince is a tough grader. There is a curve applied, but it varies across each section leader (each section has it's own curve). To do well in 371, it really depends on who your group is and who your section leader is. There is a lot of work to be done in studios and outside of class, so having a group of students that do not procrastinate is super helpful. The work is not too challenging, it just is a lot to do and is tedious, especially if you make a mistake in a lab and need to start over.

Vincent Nguyen
ENME371

Anonymous
02/22/2021

Vince is very particular professor. He thinks he knows the best way for students to learn and ubiquitously applies that learning methodology across all of his students. For example, requiring students to attend lecture with clicker participation quizzes and then creating weekly quizzes that pretty much check that you went to lecture. He assigns a ton of work to keep you busy. He also speaks very loudly over Zoom. On the other hand, I think his exams are fair, though he is a very harsh grader and is definitely looking out to take off points.

Vincent Nguyen
ENME371

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
06/08/2020

Vince is nice and cares about his students BUT he's a tough grader.

Linda Schmidt
ENME371

Expecting a B+
cheesecake
12/22/2015

Dr. Schmidt is an extremely peppy and enthusiastic professor that really makes the class more enjoyable to take. She must have changed her teaching style since these last reviews because they don't seem like her at all. I will say she is very defensive of her opinions but I never say her "fighting with students". She does grade harder than the other 371 professors my semester, but if you follow her comments on the reports you should do well.

Linda Schmidt
ENME371

Expecting a B
Anonymous
11/25/2013

I totally agree with the above review. She is crazy. What kind of teacher is that obsessed with a course. Like calm down, for real. have some more professionalism when teaching a course. literally fighting with students sometimes in class. Please replace engineering department.

Chandrasekhar Thamire
ENME371

Expecting an A-
kvizzle321
01/02/2012

The most important required ME class in my opinion. Thamire should be teaching this class forever, because he does a great job. Also i was SURE that i had a B+ in the class but managed to get an A, despite him saying that there is no curve in the class, he tends to bump you up if you are really close.

Chandrasekhar Thamire
ENME371

Expecting an A
jwright5
06/10/2011

Prof. Thamire is an incredible professor. He is knowledgeable about an incredible variety of topics and is very dedicated to ensuring you learn the material in his courses well. Very nice man and an excellent professor.

Chandrasekhar Thamire
ENME371

Anonymous
05/18/2011

Dr. Thamire has got to be one of the nicest professors. I had him for both ENME 371 and 221. He is incredibly intelligent, helpful and fair. He will work you hard but you'll learn alot. Oh, and the elephants that he draws are hilarious. Be warned, ENME371 is an incredibly demanding class, it's more like a 6 credit class. It's not necessarily hard, just time consuming and the reports can be somewhat tedious. Make sure you get a section leader who's there for you and fair. I have nothing against Dr. Das personally but he's far too occupied in other things to be a section leader for this class. His grading was largely unclear, unfair, and took FAR too long. The report and presentation grades for other sections were far higher... bear in mind that this class is not curved.

Chandrasekhar Thamire
ENME371

Expecting an A
edlevin
12/09/2010

Dr. Thamire is one of the Best engineering teachers I have had at the University of Maryland. I would recommend him over and over to anyone looking to take his class. I wish he taught the lab portions of the class as well because he straight up front helps you with ANYTHING you can think of. He even will adjust the class schedule with what is going on in other classes during the semester. Hands down my favorite professor ever!!!

Chandrasekhar Thamire
ENME371

Expecting an A
jhaan
12/20/2009

The class is not hard, per se, but is extremely money and time intensive. You will find that 3-4 times during the semester you will be pulling all nighters to get papers done on time, or spending a large amount of time studying for quizzes on material that was briefly mentioned in class, never to be seen again. The review for the final was also lengthy, covering the majority of the 800 page textbook. The benefit of all this? You WILL be rewarded for all of your hard work. He grades quite generously and gives several opportunities to fix mistakes. Extra credit quizzes are nice too. The material was sort of iffy for me, but the design project was rewarding in the end. Good guy, good teacher. As an extra note, if you have the choice, get Thamire as your section teacher and not Aris Cleanthous. Aris knows what he is talking about and is knowledgeable, but is difficult to get a hold of and imposes his own arbitrary limitations to reports than what Thamire does. For example, on a Design for X presentation, Thamire's section only had to do a report on a single part, while Aris required two parts to do. The end result being each team rushed through the presentation and went well over the time limit. Not fun.

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