Christopher Cadou

This professor has taught: EDSP652, ENAE311, ENAE311H, ENAE471, ENAE484, ENAE674, ENES102, ENES232

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Christopher Cadou ENAE311 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/27/2023	There's plenty I could talk about when it comes to taking a class with Cadou, but I'll try to keep it to the main points. First off, the classes he teaches are extremely difficult to begin with. I took ENAE311 with him which has a 2.6ish average GPA over all professors. This class is not one you can just go to lecture and expect to pass, no matter the professor. So I think him teaching hard classes gives him a tough starting point on ratings. With that being said, there are certainly many elements of his teaching that do not work well. The most obvious one is his exams and grading. He takes an eternity to grade exams. Our first exam took over a month to get back and just so happened to be released the day after the drop deadline. The final exam took him 3 weeks as well and we didn't get final grades back until after Christmas. His exam grades are generally low. My semester the averages were: Exam 1 - 62% : Exam 2 - 58% : Final - 67%. He gives weekly quizzes which are a nice grade boost but are poorly written at times. In terms of his lectures, he focuses a lot of time on the derivations of equations, writing derivations that take multiple pages. He'll spend like 15 minutes doing a derivation when you really only need to know the final equation. He said multiple times in class that derivations can be on the exam, but I never saw any in my semester. Overall, his class is really about how much effort you put in. I got a 71% on the first exam and then grinded like crazy for the next two exams and pulled out an A in the class. If you're willing to work for it an A or B in his class is very reachable as he curved the class 9% for me.
Christopher Cadou ENAE311 Expecting a C- Anonymous 12/26/2023	Cadou is a very nice man, but unfortunately a nice guy does not a good teacher make. He chose to spend the lectures deriving the complex formulas and neglected to provide many examples of test questions. The optional homework assignments were nothing like the exams, and the exams themselves felt unfair in difficulty, and even included material that was exclusive to the supplemental texts. I'd avoid this guy.
Christopher Cadou ENAE311 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/13/2023	Dr. Cadou is one of the least considerate professors I have ever had. He released grades to Midterm I hours after the drop deadline and released grades to Midterm II less than a day before the Final. The averages on both exams were very low and he has given no indication of a curve. He blames students for not understanding things, even when not a single student did a question right. Maybe it is the fault of the professor when nobody does something right? Apart from terrible timeliness, his lectures are only mildly helpful. He chooses to use 90% of the lecture for derivations and then has to rush through the 10% of the lecture that is important. Take anyone else before taking Cadou.
Christopher Cadou ENAE311 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 11/30/2023	One of the worst professors I have ever had. He drones on about derivations in lectures, rarely covers examples and glosses over concepts, provides "optional homework" and quizzes which will almost certainly be pushed to the back of the priority list considering the other classes you will likely be taking concurrently. These homeworks are also a poor way to prep for exams, as his exam problems are FAR more difficult and long than homework problems. He takes far too long to grade (first midterm released AFTER drop deadline), and his opportunities to earn anything back are extremely punishing. Do not take any class with Cadou. He does not deserve your time and effort.
Christopher Cadou ENAE674 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/04/2023	Horrible professor. Always busy, doesn’t return back to your emails and grades on time.
Christopher Cadou ENES232 Anonymous 01/01/2022	Lectures are all over the place and hard to follow. Often gets behind on material resulting in learning hw topics the day it’s due, or learning exam topics the day before. Not very forgiving or helpful. Makes an already hard class 10x harder.
Christopher Cadou ENAE311 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/24/2021	Cadou is a very busy professor and tends to get caught up in other responsibilities. Do not expect your grades back to you in a timely fashion as they tend to take weeks to grade. While his lectures are very thought out, they tend to be theory based and really does not cover examples in class. For exams, he recommends you study the homework questions however these tend to be far easier than the exams. Do not try and blow this class over, as you will need to teach yourselves a lot of the concepts in order to pass.
Christopher Cadou ENES232 Expecting a P Anonymous 07/11/2021	lets be real if this professor can learn how to teach that would be amazing. I couldn’t tolerate his lectures during online school at all because he just kept scrolling his screen and sharing hundreds of equations without solving any relevant problems. His exams were hard af so people had to retake it every other week.
Christopher Cadou ENES232 Anonymous 06/18/2021	Worst professor I have ever encountered. He was literally driving while zoom lectures and proctoring during exams. Picking up family members is not professional at all while exams and he wasn't reading his emails on time. Worst class just because of the professor take Kathrene or Young and it will be so much better!!
Christopher Cadou ENAE311 Anonymous 12/17/2020	Cadou is an okay teacher, but he definitely has a lot of other commitments which shows through his grading timeline/resources provided. His lectures are fine to follow, but good luck if you're just looking at the pdf because his handwriting is pretty hard to read without him talking along side it. It took him over a month to grade our first exam and we finally received grades after the withdrawal date. The average ended up being in the 30s, so this was very concerning for class. That being sad, he did allow us to retake the exam (had the weekend after we took it to turn it in) which helped to boost the average. I think he took feedback from the first exam EXTREMELY well when writing the second exam. It was much more manageable time-wise & point distribution was more even across questions (45 pt question on the first exam that most people failed). Since the withdrawal date had been pushed back this semester, he promised to have exam 2 and other assignments in by that date (which was less than a week over Thanksgiving Break) and he fulfilled that promise. All in all I think he's a pretty decent professor and does really care about his students. I think he can just be a little oblivious to flaws in how the course is managed. If you put in the work the class really isn't a problem class.
Christopher Cadou ENES232 Anonymous 07/01/2019	Cadou gets a bad rep but from my experience, he's not as bad as people make him out to be. He goes over MOST of the concepts which is usually good enough and prepares you decently enough for exams if you actually try in discussion and re-do the homeworks, etc.
Christopher Cadou ENAE311 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/02/2018	Cadou's lectures are hard to follow because he spends a lot of time deriving complicated formulas rather than doing any actual examples. The homework assignments for this class were very time consuming and difficult. A few times I compared my homework assignments to the ones for the H section. The were almost the same, but ours had additional problems that added a lot of difficulty. The regular section should not have had HW harder than the H section. The exams were pretty easy and made up for the difficult homework. As long as you know which formulas to use, they're not hard. Some of the problems on the midterm were exactly the same as the weekly review problems. Cadou grades by giving the person with a the highest grade in the class a 100% and adds that percentage to everyone else's grade. I had an 89% after the final and ended up with an A.
Christopher Cadou ENAE311H Expecting an A- fiddlerkrt 12/23/2010	Dr. Cadou is probably the nicest aerospace professor I have ever had. His class, however, is pretty difficult. His lectures normally reduce your brains to mush, but the textbook does help clarify the material. I had quite a few mishaps in this class, but I somehow managed to scrape an A-. Homeworks consist of book problems and some of his own problems. The book problems are always very easy, but the ones he makes up are often difficult. I strongly advise working with a friend in this class because two people are more likely to figure it out than one person. Midterms and Exams are difficult. Before the exam, he lists the topics on the exam and then puts a star next to the most important ones. These, ultimately, are the concepts that end up on the exams, so make sure you know them front, sideways, and backwards. The best preparation for the exams is reading the class notes and reviewing all your problem sets.
Christopher Cadou ENAE311H Expecting an A- a778999 12/25/2009	His lectures were really hard to follow because he just writes down complicated formulas on the board. Luckily you can use examples in the book to help you solve HW problems. For the honors section he teaches material not covered in the book and that's where you get screwed. Overall I didn't enjoy the class that much. I didn't learn anything and the only reason I got an A- was because of what I remembered from ENAE283. It may have been the material, the way he taught it, or a combination of both. I don't really know.
Christopher Cadou ENES220 Expecting a C- OneManArmy 01/22/2008	Cadou is very average in all respects. He sometimes forgets to cover certain concepts in class which make the homework difficult. Nonetheless, he is organized and does not mind helping you in office hours. But overall, he is neither good nor bad; just average.