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John Baras
ENES489P Anonymous 05/10/2023 |
This is the worst structured class I have ever taken at UMD. Not only is Baras practically unreachable, the TA's clearly are so disconnected from what he expects. The class is nothing like it is described on Testudo and you will basically be learning SysML the entire class. The TA's and Baras told us to study the 700 lecture slides and that SysML would not be on the midterm, spoiler alert: that was the only thing on the midterm. Baras does seem like he wants his students to make it as a systems engineer but everyone I talked to in the class had no interest in systems at all after this class. Expect to go into your final and midterm presentations just to be told you did the entire thing incorrectly and be rudely interrupted throughout it. Grade data is fine and TA's said everyone would pass but imo the tedious busy work is not worth it. |
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John Baras
ENEE660 Anonymous 10/09/2013 |
No doubt Prof. Baras is a great researcher. Unfortunately he's not interested in teaching the students. He has his own lecture notes for ENEE660. However the notes are not user friendly. There are a lot of typos, unconventional notations, and almost zero accompanying diagrams to help better understand the concepts. There is no logical flow and it lacks actual applications or examples. In terms of teaching, he is always late for class and finishes way over time. He didn't show up for a class without prior notice and didn't apologize. He basically reads the lecture notes in verbatim and criticizes students for not reading it. It's been six weeks and we are yet to receive an assignment. I really hope I will learn something useful from him or else I'll be wasting my time and money. In short, he's terrible. |
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John Baras
Anonymous 05/14/2012 |
Only teacher I have ever given a one star too. There was no syllabi, outline for any assignments and I have yet its finally and i have yet to get one grade back. He assigned up a pop 5 page pager during finals week too. He only showed up to maybe 5 of the classes all semester and make the TA teach the class but did not give the TA any control over the class. How does that work? It doesn't. He is also very disrespectful to students. During our midterm presentation he showed up late to one of the groups presentation, criticized them for not having something which they did say before he came (TA started class) and then for the rest of the presentations was playing with his smart phones then asking questions that were clearly answered in peoples presentations. |