Mikhail Anisimov

This professor has taught: CHBE301, CHBE302, CHBE333, CHBE477, CHBE677, CHPH718E, EDSP652, ENCH610, ENCH648, ENCH648Q, ENCH898

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Mikhail Anisimov ENCH610 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/16/2021	Maybe I just thought Prof Anisimov was OK because my frame of reference is skewed by negative experiences with thermo in undergrad, but this class really wasn't so bad, and I thought Prof Anisimov did a good job of getting through a pretty large amount of content intelligibly in ~15 weeks. Lectures are pretty decently organized and the professor proceeds on every topic in a sequential sort of logical way, though sometimes he can move quite quickly. The class is derivation heavy, but usually he emphasizes the physical meaning behind the ten trillion partial derivative operators you will see, and connects the math back to what is actually happening. Thermo is a tough topic to wrap your mind around. He's sort of imposing, but his answers to questions aren't bad. He will also go on tangents sometimes, on applications of thermo (how decaf coffee is made for example) or other things, as someone who was educated in the USSR in the 1950's then came to the states he's got lots of interesting observations. He's one of those professors who's met a ton of famous academics. Quizzes can be pretty difficult but are open laptop, so that helps. No exams (that's worth 3 stars right there lol). Homeworks are the hardest part of his class and can be VERY tough IMO, though some students spent way less time on them than me. For a decent chunk of them office hours is basically mandatory. Final project, which is 2-3 weeks, is basically the same amount of work as 2-3 homeworks combined, so honestly I wasn't excessively stressed while I was doing it, even though it's pretty long. Warning: he plays favorites and has force curved people down on the final project. (This is not speculation by the way... this is very well known by all the ENCH grad students.) Overall not the best professor I've ever had, but not a terrible professor either.
Mikhail Anisimov jincheng5 01/28/2013	The only thing I remember from this course is he always stares at student and say:"It's common sense, right?"
Mikhail Anisimov Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/22/2012	Some of the things people listed below are still true about Anismov: he still makes mistakes on slides, his notation is confusing, and he can still sometimes be condescending. I think he's gotten better in that aspect, but at first we were a little afraid to ask him questions since he would be like "this is common sense" and kinda glare at you. But as the semester went on I felt like he lightened up and we got him to laugh a few times. What's really nice about Anismov is that he lets you bring whatever you want to the exam, and he even tells you whats going to be on the exam! So definitely show up the day before the exam to find out what questions are going to be on it, and then solve them at home or work on them with other people, and then bring them to the exam and you should be all set. Be sure to bring the textbook and homeworks to the exam. His exams were not difficult, and on the easier side. He had pop quizzes in our class, so be sure to pay attention in class, as that's usually what they were based on. The homeworks were actually hardest, so if you can understand those and how to do them, then you should be set for tests.
Mikhail Anisimov Expecting a B Anonymous 06/03/2010	everything plmqaz wrote is exactly right. this class sucked 100% of the time. avoid anisimov at all costs.
Mikhail Anisimov Expecting a B Anonymous 06/02/2010	As stated below, Dr. Anisimov chooses to teach this class via PowerPoint. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem for most people, but the fact that there were errors all over the slides created an obvious disparity between his notes and the book itself. At times, the formulas that he would provide us in his lectures were incorrect, compared to the ones given by the book, and students would suffer point losses on his exams because of the mistakes that Dr. Anisimov made while making the PowerPoint. Dr. Anisimov is not a person that I would remotely find suitable to teach an undergraduate course, especially one of such importance to our post-graduate careers. He incessantly finds the need to criticize students for their lack of "common" knowledge, and finds it unnecessary to explain himself further, since the material is "easy". I would highly discourage taking a class with Dr. Anisimov, as I now feel it might be more beneficial to push a course back one semester (or year), in order to actually learn the material.
Mikhail Anisimov Expecting an F plmqaz 05/03/2010	Transport Processes II (Mass and Heat Transfer) is a difficult course to begin with, no matter how great the teacher is. From what I heard, Dr. Calabrese was a very strict and demanding teacher, but he actually taught you the material and you understood it if you tried in his course. The exact opposite is true for Dr. Anisimov. First, he teaches this course ENTIRELY with powerpoint. Powerpoint is widely considered among the undergraduate body to be the absolute worst way to teach a technical course, as derivations and example problems are lost and students scramble to copy everything down. There are some anomalies to this generalization (see Dr. Raghavan's ENCH440 course), but Dr. Anisimov's powerpoint slides for this course are perhaps the best example for this negative generalization. First off, he would take examples from the book, change the notation (which is INCREDIBLY confusing), and jam 5 pages worth of derivation and math onto 1 slide, skipping all the steps that he could do in his head. Since the man has a PhD in chemical physics, it's safe to say that he can do a lot of high level math in his head that not all undergraduate students are capable of doing, and skipping several steps and changing notation from the book makes it very difficult to keep up with it. Also, his slides contained a plethora of mistakes, whether they be typos, him forgetting to maintain his changed notation, or gross errors in mathematics simplification. The errors were numerous and very misleading, as they confused us more than the slides helped us. Dr. Anisimov also is not what I would call a considerate man, as he was constantly condescending to the class and singled students out and would sometimes berate them for not knowing how to do something that he could barely explain to us. He also seemed to get angry when anyone would ask a question to clarify something, saying things like "What do you not understand? This is common sense." Finally, I think the worst thing about Dr. Anisimov's class was that he did not teach us anything that we can use in our post-undergraduate careers, except the basic concepts of mass and heat transfer. We never needed to derive any kind of equation explaining how temperature or concentration changes, which I feel is the main point of the course as it was in Transport Processes I. I feel that Dr. Anisimov teaching this course has put me at a severe disadvantage for competing with other chemical engineering graduates from other Universities. I would not recommend any course he taught, no matter how interesting it would be, to anyone because he is no doubt the worst teacher I have ever had in my entire 18 years of schooling.
Mikhail Anisimov Anonymous 03/26/2010	What to say about the snobby, arrogant, rude, Russian ass-wipe? He is used to teaching graduate courses and that's why he mostly gives out As and Bs. The first test grades for Heat/Mass came out and 39% of the class had failing grades because his fucked-up 'no curving' policy. When the average is only 3 points away from failing..someone isn't doing their job. This man is rude and makes fun of students and says that all material is "simple." This material is NOT "simple!" For example: Anisimov: "only two students were in my office hours two days before the exam. Why is this? Student: "Well, we didn't have a specific question to ask you" Anisimov: "Your problem" laughs to himself I feel that he truly wants the students to understand the material, but does the worst fucking job of teaching it. He is unmistakably, the worst, the rudist, and most inefficient teacher I have EVER had! screw him...