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Peter Bernard
ENME657 Anonymous 12/10/2014 |
Prof. Bernard is an excellent, highly underrated, professor at UMD. He comes across as a very humble, yet incredibly intelligent, professor and is always glad to help students. He thoroughly walks you through the derivations of fundamental equations and, most importantly, explains their physical meaning. He's not interested in your ability to plug-n-chug engineering "problems" but rather your physical understanding of the material - thank God engineering teachers like this still exist. His HW's, exams, and grading are always incredibly fair. Bernard's forte is turbulence (i.e., real flows) and his book is incredibly well written - buy it. Out of the many classes I've had with him, his turbulence class was the one I enjoyed most and some of his stories were absolutely hilarious. Great Professor. |
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Peter Bernard
Expecting a C kvizzle321 12/12/2010 |
He's so boring. A friendly guy, but he is clearly very lazy. I did not deserve to pass the course but I did any way. He didn't give us homework and we only had 3 exams for our grade. My best grade on an exam was a 70. I got 60's on the other 2 exams but still managed to pass the class (didn't make sense to me). All in all, if you actually want to learn MATLAB then take a different professor. |
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Peter Bernard
Expecting an A terp315 07/28/2010 |
Like the person below me said, there is no graded work in this class other than the 3 exams (2 midterms and a final). I never went to the discussion and didn't do any work until about 2 days before each exam. I just read through the diaries and then did 50-75% of the practice problems he posted and ended up getting an A on every exam. Overall funny guy and not a bad lecturer at all. |
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Peter Bernard
Expecting a C Anonymous 05/22/2010 |
Bernard does in fact cook up tasty matlab. He is what he is - a programmer. He does teach you matlab and he gives you all the tools to learn it, except some of us never do. The class is set up in such a way that you are not required to do ANYTHING at all. No HW's, no quizzes, just 3 exams that define your existence in his class. Honestly, I did absolutely nothing for the entire semester. All I did do is go to lectures, but even that did not matter, because he posts all his diaries online anyway. I pulled out an 80 on the final just by studying for 24 hours straight. If you turn in a blank piece of paper you will get a 50, (I wrote nonsense on my second exam I got 60). He curves like crazy. Bernard is a cool person, except he does not make you do anything. So if you just do his practice problems regularly then you will do great, like most people in this class. If you don't, then you will end up like me. |
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Peter Bernard
Anonymous 05/19/2009 |
This dude is WEIRD! Bernard has the disposition and looks of Bob Ross and told the class that he was going to cook us up a tasty meal of matlab on the first day. It was impossible to study for the tests because the test format was never the same and the questions were poorly worded. However, Bernard does curve everything majorly and seems to miss a lot of mistakes while grading. Your grade in this class will depend entirely upon luck. One time I thought I did terrible and got an A, another time I thought I did well and got a C. I have no idea what his grading criteria is but the curves seem to help an awful lot. You probably won't much useful stuff but you'll get an ok grade. |