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Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
ENMA422 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/18/2022 |
Not sure what the previous review is about, he wasn't mean in class or yelled for no reason. He takes his time answering our questions and if you say you do not understand, he will attempt to go through the concept again. Getting on his good side definitely helps, he has mentioned in our class that he likes "this class". For projects, be very well informed about your presentation. He will question the details in your project and 'rip you apart' if you are not well prepared, but do note that "I do not know" is an acceptable answer, especially for the preliminary presentation. The point is to find areas for you to research further into the project. There is a large focus on polymers in the 2nd half of the course which I was not expecting, but that is his expertise. Overall, I really like his teaching style he's kind of funny, and my favourite professor this term. |
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Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
ENMA422 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/27/2016 |
ENMA422 itself is an easy class. Three homeworks, a take home midterm, a final and most of the assignments are partner work. Getting an A was pretty easy. Al-Sheikhly doesn't allow any electronics in class and always takes attendance, which kinda sucks because his lecturing is extremely sub-par and fairly repetitional. He also had a really large focus on polymers for the second part of the course. As for the man himself, he's pretty much just a cranky old man. He can be mean and yell for no reason, and rarely answers questions adequately if he even tolerates them. Getting on his good side is hard and may not help that much, but should still be attempted. If he still does a project in the future, just go to his office hours and ask him for a topic. Otherwise you risk public humiliation as he rips apart your preliminary presentation in front of the whole class, without any response allowed. Of course if you're a girl, this doesn't apply. He'll love you regardless. Overall if you can stomach his personality, the class is easy enough that I would recommend it. |
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Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
ENME382 Expecting an A- seanziee 05/04/2013 |
The teaching was pretty poor. Professor was condescending to students, and it was hard to take notes during class because he would just talk and it was unclear what we should write. He took off points on exams for what it seems emotional reasons--stating that the answer wasn't good enough, without actually looking at what some of us wrote. He also took off full points on some questions because we wrote exactly what he wrote on a slide, and he thinks that we should "read the book"(which I did/do), not just look at the slides. Nevertheless the answer was correct, but his irrational reasoning led to getting full points off. He is also just a very difficult person to deal with. Not very available after class and he gives no respect to any student. He says we should discuss together during class, because that is the point of class, but many times he will tell people to put their hands down or just shut them down by saying, "Are you even paying attention??". So overall, the professor is disrespectful, doesn't teach well, and is irrational. |