Amr Baz

This professor has taught: ENAE655, ENES221, ENES601, ENME361, ENME462, ENME489P, ENME662, ENME704, ENME711, ENME808P, GEMS297, GEMS396, GEMS397, GEMS496, GEMS497

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Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/08/2024	Baz is a professor who truly cares about his students and wants everyone to succeed in the class. He doesn't mind if you ask basic questions, always posts answers to assignments and even records his officer hours. He is the god of ENME462!
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/08/2024	Very engaging professor who tries his best to make sure every student understands. Exams are very manageable as well as studios so I dont feel like Im ever drowning in work.
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2023	LOVED this professor. He really cares about students getting an understanding of the material. If you go to his office hours he will go through homework problems. If you miss it don't worry he posts the recordings too. Exam are stupid easy if you have any understanding of the material. About to attack this end of semester lab which looks rough, but I bet he'll help. Highly recommend this professor if you need to take this course.
Amr Baz ENME662 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/30/2023	A professor who gives so much and emphasizes on learning
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/25/2022	Dr. Baz is an amazing professor. He acknowledges that this is a senior-level course and wants the students to pass it and "get it done." He has long lecture slides but does most of the writing on the board. The homework was tough, but he goes over the solutions during his office hours, and he records and posts them as well. The exams could be challenging, but he posts practice problems and has problems posted in the lecture slides. Dr. Baz provides plenty of resources to do well in this course, and he also is a light grader on his exam. There is nothing negative to say about Dr. Baz!
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/21/2022	By far one of the best classes I had to take at UMD as a transfer student. The lectures may seem as if you are not learning a lot and the homework can be tough but Baz has office hours that literally explains how to answer the questions. If you come PREPARED, study and ask questions you will get an A. The course project at the end of the semester looked a little rough but Baz always helps. Baz wants his students to do well and makes sure of that. If you are struggling he works with you. A great class and a great professor!
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/13/2022	Very caring professor, inspires you do well in life.
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/02/2022	Baz is great. His homeworks tend to be pretty hard, but his exams are a dream. There was rampant cheating on the first exam in my class so they scrapped the grade and had us take the rest of the exams in class, but despite this the average on the second exam was a 96. Honestly, never had an exam as easy as that in my 4 years at UMD. Overall, great at lecturing and very reasonable exams, take this class with him if you can!
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/02/2021	Dr. Baz is awesome. It will feel like you're not learning much, and his lectures can be super boring, but I felt by the end I had learned a decent bit about controls. The homework is insanely tough but he takes you through it in office hours. The exams on the other hand are crazy easy (as in you will get an A if you come prepared). My favorite thing with Dr. Baz is that he realizes you aren't going to solve a bunch of equations by hand in real life so he encourages using programs like MATLAB.
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/17/2020	Dr. Baz is the best professor I've had here. He takes great care to go over everything in a lot of detail and simply so people can understand it. Homework are pretty hard, but ask him to go over a problem in office hours and he'll walk you through how to solve it. Exams are really simple and test core understanding. Baz has never written an extremely difficult or unfair exam. Amazing professor, you can tell he really cares about teaching.
Amr Baz ENME361 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/19/2020	best engineering professor at UMD
Amr Baz ENME361 Expecting a B Anonymous 06/10/2019	Baz is the goat. If he teaches vibes this semester, take him! You will not regret it. Homework's are hard, but exams are very straightforward. He does not curve the class but grades individual exams leniently.
Amr Baz ENME361 Expecting an A mechE98 05/20/2019	The man is the absolute best. He teaches his class how every class should be taught. He gives really hard homework problems that force you to use Matlab and other online calculators, but his tests are super straightforward and just test that you know the concepts. Also incredible in office hours and a really funny and nice man
Amr Baz ENES221 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/22/2013	One of the best professors I have ever had. He teaches the difficult material very well and truly cares about his students. He is also funny and cracks a lot of jokes during class. You absolutely must take him for 221 or any other class he teaches!
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A edlevin 01/21/2012	Great professor. He takes his time going over the material in class and then in the discussions the TA reviews it again to make sure you really understand it. Exams are open book. Homeworks are generally tough and long but some problems come from the book. I would recommend taking Dr. Baz for any class as he is a great teacher! Very helpful at office hours and student concerns as well!
Amr Baz ENME462 Expecting an A kvizzle321 11/23/2011	Vibrations II managed to be much easier than Vibrations I, probably due to Dr. Baz. Well laid out lectures slides that guide you through the homeworks. And there were just 2 exams, homework, and a final. Exams were open book! Take Dr. Baz!
Amr Baz ENME664 Expecting an A btrettel 05/17/2011	Dr. Baz made grad dynamics easier than undergrad dynamics. I took this class as an undergraduate and I was pleasantly surprised by the class material and Dr. Baz. What was taught in ENES221 was an okay introduction. ENME664 filled in many of the details that were missing and introduced far easier (if you can understand the math) methods to characterize the dynamics of a particular system. Dr. Baz reviews the last lecture before each lecture. This is useful if you have missed a class and I think it helps me piece everything together mentally. He sometimes notes that he miswrote something last time and he'll correct it here too. Unfortunately, the book he chose for the class is not very good, and he admits this numerous times. I didn't use it very often. I found what he discussed in the lectures and the lecture slides he posted (which he often did not cover specifically in class; the projector seemed to be used for when he was running out of time) to be sufficient for most work in the class. He will recommend a number of other books, with reservations. Most books don't seem to cover everything he wants to cover. In this class I was introduced to what he calls the "Augmented Force Method" for constrained systems. This method is extremely powerful and allows me to directly find the equations of motion of very complicated systems with a great number of degrees of freedom. This method is relatively new and it is not covered in most textbooks. In my opinion, this method should be taught to all mechanical engineers and embraced as the easy way to do these problems. I highly recommend taking this class with Dr. Baz for this reason as I'm not sure if the other professors would cover this method. (If they don't, you apparently can read about it in Analytical Dynamics by Udwadia and Kalaba.) His expectations were reasonable, but they were low in my opinion. I noticed that the syllabus listed many topics that were not covered. He seems to have scaled back the class to make it more easily doable. Even still, most students could not handle the work in this class based on what they've said to me. There were 7 homeworks with 4 problems each. Generally these problems were straightforward if you could follow the lectures, however, there were some tricky ones. He provided reasonably detailed solutions to every homework problem and exam, so I could figure out what I did not get earlier. The homeworks can be rather time consuming, however, I got better at doing them quickly as the semester progressed. He's a very easy grader. On several of my homeworks I noted that my answer was incorrect for X and Y and he still gave me 8 to 10 of the points out of 10! I think he wants to see that you understand the method and cares less if you get the same exact solution he does. His exams are basically simplified versions of the homework problems. The two hour and quarter exams had two problems and the final had three problems. You can use ANYTHING you want to during the exams. Most students used laptops, but I found this to be distracting and clumsy, so I made some good reference sheets and remembered most of what I needed to know. Overall, I'd highly recommend taking ENME664 with Dr. Baz.