W Ethan Eagle

This professor has taught: EDSP652, ENES100, ENES100A, ENES102, ENES192, ENES210, ENES213, ENES232, ENME489Q

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W Ethan Eagle ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/16/2022	AVOID THIS PROF AT ALL COSTS, Eagle was terrible when it came to trying to teach students about the necessary things that we needed for the course. The TA for my class practically carried that class and helped out more in the long run than what ever Eagle was teaching. Terrible teacher.
W Ethan Eagle ENES100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/24/2022	Honestly I think that a lot of the people who are complaining did not actually pay attention in class. Ethan was a great professor and if you actually asked him or emailed him about anything you would get a clear, timely response. That being said, lots of his grading methods were wishy washy. Usually you couldn't tell if you were going to get an A or not. However, I did notice that pretty much everyone who actually put in effort did well in the class. He taught useful skills and I would take this class again if I could.
W Ethan Eagle ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/25/2021	Professor Eagle seems really cool at the beginning of the semester. Once the building phase of the OTV started he never really helped any of the groups in the class. Asking Professor Eagle for help he always gave a very brief and vague response that never really helped. If you are given a bad group you will have a hard time throughout the class.
W Ethan Eagle ENES100 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/22/2021	If I could give a zero I would. Anyone who tells you that you need to just put in the work is obviously lying, Eagle graded you based on how much he likes you and there is essentially no rubric for any assignment as he changes it last minute. He is the most laziest teacher and you will not know your grade until the very end of the semester. AVOID HIM AT ALL COSTS.
W Ethan Eagle ENES102 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2021	To be honest, I haven't learned from his lectures but mostly from the office hours or studying myself. At the beginning of the semester, he made students to teach each other by making presentation and summary of each chapters. This was totally waste of time because most of the students presenting didn't know the topic themselves. However, near the end of the semester, he decided to teach the class by solving example problems which was better than what he did before but wasn't that helpful. I spent average 70~90 min a week in his office hours trying to understand what is going on in class. He is really helpful in his office hours but the quality of lecture was really poor. If you really have to take this course, I recommend taking other professor.
W Ethan Eagle ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/08/2021	This class can be summed up as a total waste of time, he of the most disorganized engineering professors I've had. The first half of his class actually went quite well, with him laying out what he would be teaching as well as a plan for each class. As we approached the second half of the course however, which was more project based, he constantly changed his requirements for projects and told different groups different things. Because of this, his class ended up being much more stressful than it should've been, with specifications for many assignments being contradictory - his canvas page would say to make a powerpoint, but then the rubric would ask for a word document. Halfway through projects, people would have zero idea what Professor Eagle wanted at all - he would send us a set of specifications but then completely disagree with it in-class. It's completely unreasonable for him to expect us to work "40 hours in a month" on just the projects for this class, especially when much of it is spent making useless progress update powerpoints every other class and he himself can't even be bothered to update his assignment pages to be more clear. You can learn just as much in ENES100 with another professor, without having to deal with Prof. Eagle's passive aggressiveness and disorganization.
W Ethan Eagle ENES100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/23/2019	This other reviewer clearly didn’t put any work into this class. My opinion is just as anonymous as theirs, but I would highly recommend disregarding their review. Ethan Eagle is not an “easy” teacher because he actually lets you learn things in ENES100. ENES100, in my opinion, is fundamentally flawed due to a lack of a clear concrete goal and the time constraints. However, Ethan is very good at taking this class and making it into a memorable and useful experience that most professors do not. Especially in the teamwork regard, Ethan is great at cultivating dynamic team relationships that will shape how you work with others. This is an incredibly useful skill, and I’m very thankful that he helped me with it. That said, Ethan does make you do more work than most professors. He also has an unorthodox grading system where you basically don’t know what grade you will receive until the course has ended. This system isn’t for everyone, but once you can get over the uncertainty it is fine. He gives literally everyone who put effort into the class an A in the end. Don’t worry about grades in his class if you have a decent work ethic. You will do fine. In the end, if you are looking for an “easy A” in ENES100, steer clear from Eagle because he will make you work. But if you actually want to get something out of ENES100, like one would expect when you’re paying a ton of money to learn things in college, I would highly recommend Eagle. The other reviewer mentions stats about the department - in Ethan’s professor evaluation the students reported learning a significantly higher amount of information than the average ENES100 student.
W Ethan Eagle ENES100 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/14/2019	Avoid, there’s a reason he has an average rating of 2.17 when the Engineering department average is 3.5ish. He specifically states he’s a much harder grader than other ENES100 professors which almost every other professor give you a guaranteed A in.