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Keith Herold
BIOE331 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/03/2016 |
He is the worst professor I have ever had so far in bioe. He gave weekly matlab homeworks that started easy and became incredibly hard by the end of the semester, not to mention he did little to nothing to help with it. His exams were hard and had no reviews (other than him coming to the discussion and asking if there is anything people didn't understand from lecture). Speaking of lecture, it was all on power point and when it wasn't his explanations didn't come through any better. He also gave weekly quizzes that depended on recent poorly taught lectures so if you missed any you were pretty much screwed. Avoid this professor unless you really want to find out how miserable fluids can be. |
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Keith Herold
BIOE331 Expecting a B Anonymous 10/31/2016 |
Herold struck me as a teacher who is trying really hard to be good, and just falls short. He tries to explain things but it often goes over students' heads. And then when we ask him to explain it again, he doesn't really change the way he explained it. Basically, if you didn't understand it the first time, he is not going to be able to help you. He also goes way too fast through the lecture slides and doesn't allow us to understand enough. Instead of going through the slides once at an appropriate pace, he instead goes through them twice, but too fast both times. This is not an effective way to teach the material. The homework took soooooo long. I probably spent 8 hours a week on it, which is an insane amount of time. I would complain about it more, except I actually think I learned a lot from it and it contributed to my success. The standards set for this course and the depth at which we were expected to understand the material were higher than any other course I have taken here. I don't think that most of us in the class are ever going to need to know fluids at that depth, and it would be better to lower the standards slightly in favor of ensuring that the majority of the class understand the material moderately instead of only the top of the class understanding the material at the highest level possible. |
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Keith Herold
BIOE232 Expecting an A terpfan8591 06/02/2011 |
Herold's a pretty mediocre teacher. He's a nice guy and he'll definitely do his best to make sure you understand, but his lectures generally aren't that helpful. If you don't get something don't be afraid to ask, he's willing to put the time in to help you. In our class there was a huge range of scores on exams. Basically, the kids who understood the material right away found the tests easy and got A's, and the kids who didn't get it but probably could have learned the material with better instruction did very poorly. The key to this class is to put a lot of time into the homework. There are solution guides out there but I wouldn't use them. I did all the reading and spent a ton of time on the homework, and I found the quizzes and tests to be easy without having to study that much. If you don't have time I recommend doing the homework during class (don't skip because he gives quizzes), you'll benefit more from that than from paying attention. |
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Keith Herold
BIOE232 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/21/2011 |
We were supposed to have quizzes every Thursday but we ended up having 5 all semester. We were supposed to have only 2 exams and a final but the average on the second exam was really low (like 60), so we convinced him to give us a 3rd. For homework, he expected us to 'think' about the problem and find ways it connected to other problems, which none of us had time for. His first exam was almost identical to the practice exam but some parts were confusing. We did not cover like 3 chapters because he was really disorganized. He is a really nice guy and cares about his students but he is not a great professor. He tried really hard to change the course as the semester went along but hopefully he will have better luck teaching it next semester. An important thing to remember is that if there are too many exams in one week (like the week before spring break), then you can ask him to move the exam. I had a BSCI330 exam, this class and a core class exam in the same week. core and thermo I would have been fine but BSCI is really hard and requires a lot of memorization so everyone focused on that first and then when it was time for Thermo, we did not have enough time to study and so our second exam scores were really terrible. Good Luck! |
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Keith Herold
BIOE232 Expecting a B Anonymous 04/04/2011 |
He tries, but he fails. Nice guy, but believes a student should be able to extrapolate quantitative skills from being just taught the more conceptual information. Homework-like examples would have been helpful...but he's very passive aggressive and takes offense to any criticism made about his teaching style. He believes everything he writes to be "straight-forward" while in fact he couldn't be further from the truth. Also, he wants students to "think" about and "apply" the problems in the real-world while doing homeworks....but this is too much to ask for since the homework is already extremely demanding, and takes way too much time...and most of us have 15-18 credit schedules and can't put the heart into a homework assignment. He basically needs to understand we have other classes to focus on as well, and to be a little less uptight about the course. |