Andres Rubiano Acosta

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Andres Rubiano Acosta ENES221 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2024	Pros: Goes over a lot of examples in class. That's pretty much where the pros end. Cons: The main issue is that very often, his solutions to the examples in class are incorrect. Either he writes key formulas down incorrectly, or he makes mistakes in his solution process that he doesn't bother checking. He also almost never fully solves the problems (partially due to his tendency to ramble), which made his lectures even less useful to me. A vast majority of my learning in this class has been from the textbook as well as watching videos on YouTube. Another gripe I had is that we were supposed to be given formula sheets during every exam and weekly quiz, but he never handed them out (he ironically said we "didn't really need them", despite writing the incorrect formulas half the time during lectures). If you're good at self-studying and like the feeling of having no idea what's going on during lecture, this professor is for you! Otherwise, I'd suggest you try to avoid him.
Andres Rubiano Acosta ENES221 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/09/2024	Professor Rubiano is honestly a really nice guy, really wants students to succeed in this class. He understand situations students are going through and is very flexible with things like homework, quizzes, whatnot and even gives extra credit when he deems necessary. He also provides a lot of explanation to confusing material and goes very in depth with concepts. But his lectures don't help much when it comes to material since he doesn't have too much of a structure to these lectures. Sometimes he'll go over examples but he doesn't believe in giving students examples. If anything, he mostly goes over deriving equations which gets confusing and doesn't really help too much since it doesn't pertain to our assignments. He also doesn't post most in class material on ELMS so it makes content a little more confusing. All in all, his teaching style is confusing but overall a great guy when you seek help
Andres Rubiano Acosta ENES221 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/04/2024	Pros: Rubiano is a really nice guy, generous with exam grading compared to other dynamics profs, sometimes will do helpful examples before a quiz. He tries to teach less memorization and more critical thinking. He is also understanding with makeup quiz opportunities, allowing you to double count a quiz if you have a valid reason for missing one. Cons: Spends most of lecture time doing proofs that you don't care about and don't need to know. He often times will give the class the wrong equations which just leads to more confusion. More often than not, he does examples wrong in lecture which just makes students more confused on the process. Towards the end of this semester he stopped with the proofs and began doing a lot of our HW problems in lecture, which seems helpful but like I said he usually does them wrong, so when you later go to do your HW you are already moving in the wrong direction. Conclusion: Not the best professor for dynamics, but certainly not the worst option. Don't bend over backwards to take his class but don't bend over backwards to avoid it either. Most of my learning in this class was from youtube, other profs office hours, and brute forcing through the homework. Overall dynamics is just PHYS 161 beefed up a little bit. Not a very hard class
Andres Rubiano Acosta ENES221 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/20/2024	Really chill guy and engages the class a lot, but his notes aren't structured like other ENES courses are and he'll often just go in random directions that are hard to follow but overall he's pretty good.

Andres Rubiano Acosta
ENES221

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/10/2024

Pros: Goes over a lot of examples in class. That's pretty much where the pros end. Cons: The main issue is that very often, his solutions to the examples in class are incorrect. Either he writes key formulas down incorrectly, or he makes mistakes in his solution process that he doesn't bother checking. He also almost never fully solves the problems (partially due to his tendency to ramble), which made his lectures even less useful to me. A vast majority of my learning in this class has been from the textbook as well as watching videos on YouTube. Another gripe I had is that we were supposed to be given formula sheets during every exam and weekly quiz, but he never handed them out (he ironically said we "didn't really need them", despite writing the incorrect formulas half the time during lectures). If you're good at self-studying and like the feeling of having no idea what's going on during lecture, this professor is for you! Otherwise, I'd suggest you try to avoid him.

Andres Rubiano Acosta
ENES221

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/09/2024

Professor Rubiano is honestly a really nice guy, really wants students to succeed in this class. He understand situations students are going through and is very flexible with things like homework, quizzes, whatnot and even gives extra credit when he deems necessary. He also provides a lot of explanation to confusing material and goes very in depth with concepts. But his lectures don't help much when it comes to material since he doesn't have too much of a structure to these lectures. Sometimes he'll go over examples but he doesn't believe in giving students examples. If anything, he mostly goes over deriving equations which gets confusing and doesn't really help too much since it doesn't pertain to our assignments. He also doesn't post most in class material on ELMS so it makes content a little more confusing. All in all, his teaching style is confusing but overall a great guy when you seek help

Andres Rubiano Acosta
ENES221

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/04/2024

Pros: Rubiano is a really nice guy, generous with exam grading compared to other dynamics profs, sometimes will do helpful examples before a quiz. He tries to teach less memorization and more critical thinking. He is also understanding with makeup quiz opportunities, allowing you to double count a quiz if you have a valid reason for missing one. Cons: Spends most of lecture time doing proofs that you don't care about and don't need to know. He often times will give the class the wrong equations which just leads to more confusion. More often than not, he does examples wrong in lecture which just makes students more confused on the process. Towards the end of this semester he stopped with the proofs and began doing a lot of our HW problems in lecture, which seems helpful but like I said he usually does them wrong, so when you later go to do your HW you are already moving in the wrong direction. Conclusion: Not the best professor for dynamics, but certainly not the worst option. Don't bend over backwards to take his class but don't bend over backwards to avoid it either. Most of my learning in this class was from youtube, other profs office hours, and brute forcing through the homework. Overall dynamics is just PHYS 161 beefed up a little bit. Not a very hard class

Andres Rubiano Acosta
ENES221

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/20/2024

Really chill guy and engages the class a lot, but his notes aren't structured like other ENES courses are and he'll often just go in random directions that are hard to follow but overall he's pretty good.