Joshua Cocker

This professor has taught: BMGT190H, ENES100, ENES100A, ENES113, ENES190H, ENES232

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Joshua Cocker BMGT190H Anonymous 05/18/2025	has favorites and will try and grade you harsher because of it.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/23/2025	Your experience is going to be based on your team. Josh makes whatever experience you have so much better. He’s funny and cares about your team success. He provides good feedback on assignments and it’s harder to get a bad grade than a good grade. Best ENES100 prof you can take.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/16/2025	Amazing professor, but don't expect him to help you with anything. He has a "throw them in the deep end and see if they sink" policy. Pretty lenient grading.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2024	Josh is a great teacher, helps explain concepts and will work one on one with your team without doing it for you. He allows you to grow in this class which I find very nice.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2024	Such a great teacher for such a demanding class, he is a really funny and nice teacher to talk to. He does mention that its hard to get a bad grade in this class because its about your group project.
Joshua Cocker ENES232 Anonymous 03/14/2024	Amazing professor in every sense. Absolutely cannot go wrong with Josh.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/07/2024	Genuinely just a good person. He’s young so he’s pretty relatable and funny and is really easy to talk to. He’s also very helpful. Takes more effort to get a bad grade than a good one in this class imo.
Joshua Cocker ENES190H Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/24/2024	This man is just about everything you could ask from a college professor. He cares about you doing well and he is smart enough to work with you and figure out your problem areas.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/24/2023	Josh is young and smart and knows what he's doing when it comes to engineering an OTV. He is super willing to help and provides a lot of resources as he truly wants everyone in the class to succeed. That being said, he leaves it up to you to make good use of your time and get his help, so go into office hours and open lab if your team needs it. He grades pretty harshly on the first couple milestones but once you're in the build phase he emphasizes that he is not grading you on your ability to actually build an OTV but rather on your ability to apply the engineering design principles.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/04/2023	Great teacher, genuinely interesting in the material and engaging. The class is a great time and a really good experience. you learn a lot of necessary time management skills. Josh does a good job of guiding and leading you and your team in the right direction. 100% recommend for ENES-100
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/29/2023	Josh is a great professor and definitely one of the best for ENES100. He is very young and laid back but is also super knowledgeable at the same time. He is very relaxed with grading and takes a while to grade stuff but he is not a hard grader. He also lets you experiment with new design ideas for the OTV. The only way for his class to suck is if you get a bad group. But Josh is really nice and will generally get you the grade you need if you show him you are trying with the OTV. Overall he's great and would definitely recommend him for ENES100.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/15/2023	Josh Cocker is a cool dude. He is excited about engineering in a laid back way. He is knowledgeable and happy to admit when he doesn't know something, a skill many professors lack. He will magnify your energy for engineering. He will also let you make the design decisions you want to make in Enes100. He is young and hip and also very professional at the same time. Second note - Josh is incredibly involved in the Enes100 program as opposed to some (not all, but a few) other professors who don't care about Enes100 and just do it because they are required to. If you can, pick him. (The person who says he is a hard grader doesn't know what they are talking about...)
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 06/05/2023	Josh is great. Even if you can't get your OTV to do much, he will get you the grade you need. But that is only if you put in the effort and show him. Go to some office hours, and genuinely try on the OTV. He gives a decent amount of points back that you lose for OTV performance to make sure you get an A.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/20/2023	Had Josh for ENES100 this semester. I found his teaching to be very helpful and his assignments to be fair. He truly wants what is best for his students and was always happy to help with any questions anybody had. He also kept lab hours open for longer than they were originally supposed to be just so a few groups of students could work on their projects longer. I think this reflects very positively on him as a person and professor, as he sacrificed his free time just for the benefit of his students. Would definitely recommend for the class.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/03/2023	Good professor, would recommend for ENES100.
Joshua Cocker ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/09/2023	Josh is very nice but he is a hard grader. He expects a lot on his assignments without telling you any requirements. An A will probably be hard to get from him as the Milestone assignments he grades hard and they are the majority of your grade. Just hope you have a good group for the semester.
Joshua Cocker Expecting an A Anonymous 05/18/2022	Spring 2022 was Josh's first time teaching and he's already a pro. He is younger than most other professors, so he's more relatable and has a similar sense of humor. Josh (who asked us to call him by his first name) always wants to help and is super good at explaining... everything. ENES100 can be either a blast or a nightmare depending on who your groupmates are (chosen by the professor & TAs). It's very similar to FIRST Robotics in high school, except there are 6-8 people per group and the robot is the size of a laptop. There's a HUGE range of experience among the students, from no experience all the way up to people who build robots as a hobby. Josh tried his best to teach basic concepts during the first few weeks of the semester before we started building, but there's only so much one can teach in that short amount of time. Cross your fingers and hope for good group mates who show up and try their best.