Agisilaos Iliadis

This professor has taught: EDSP652, ENEE303, ENEE303H, ENEE307, ENEE313, ENEE313H, ENEE413, ENEE416, ENEE480, ENEE600, ENEE601

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Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE600 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/24/2024	Dr. Iliadis is a middle of the pack lecturer who often does not seem to be able to understand what students are asking when they ask questions. However, he is very nice and everything you need to know can be found in his semi-disorganized lecture notes somewhere. I walked away thinking that this was one of the most fair classes I have ever taken because the solution to every homework, quiz, and exam question was contained somewhere in his vast collection of disorganized notes so I cannot complain. I would for sure take this class again.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE303 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/15/2023	Train wreck of a course, just avoid. His lectures make no sense, his exams are weird and he offers little resources to study. Just avoid!! You have to memorize equations for exams too, and each exam has like 20 different equations that all have different applications! On exams, you also have to derive formulas. Just avoid!!
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE303 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/29/2023	Iliadis is terrible. He does not post when exams are until a few weeks until they happen. Does not have an official syllabus, rather just an "outline" that has no dates on it and is very vague. During lecture he asks/yells at us to ask questions and when we do, he cuts us off or changes the subject. He does not return exams. If you want to see your work, you have to make time in your day to make an appointment and see him in his office. The worst part is that during the exam he talks 90% of the time. Some of the remarks he makes are quite rude also. "Guys, this is easy. What's taking so long?" or "How are you guys not done yet?"
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/09/2023	Trash professor; illegible chicken-scratch handwriting; lazy slob (shows up late to every other lecture); also likes to make fun of students by deriving some messy equation then saying "come on guys, this is easy"; also after every other sentence he goes like "yEaH?" as an annoying effort to access the understanding of a concept; he doesn't provide equations for exams and makes us memorize them all. Avoid at all costs.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Expecting a C Anonymous 04/04/2023	Honestly, not sure why he gets so much hate. He was funny and really not that bad. I mean "come on guys". If you attempt the class, you're basically guaranteed to pass with him, but getting an A is extremely difficult.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/24/2023	313 with Iliadis is the definition of a mid course. Iliadis as a professor is neither amazing nor horrible, but his teaching style leans more towards the negative end of the spectrum. His lectures mostly consisted of him info dumping information in long lines of text or writing out long derivations, many of which were never touched again. He barely does practice problems in his lectures, so if you want to work through problems, you need to go to your discussion section and work with your TA. Iliadis also has a tendency of sometimes making rude and/or irrational comments towards students. His normal routine is to show up right on-time to 10 mins late, so class never starts on time. It was so bad that he showed up 10 minutes to the final exam. He asks for questions on the current content at the beginning of class, but most of his responses consist of either "you should be reading the textbook" or "you learned that in middle school." Regardless of his attitude during class, the workload for 313 is rather light. We had around 6 HWs throughout the semester and only 1 quiz (for some reason). The HWs were not very time-consuming, though some of the content didn't relate to the content covered in class. Exams consisted of memorizing every equation from the recommended chapters and hoping that you memorized the right ones. He gives no other study preparation, so you have to find other means of studying outside of his class. Exams consisted of 20% multiple choice questions and 3 free response questions that made up the other 80% of the exam. Grading was pretty lenient, but getting any points back after getting your exam graded is very difficult. As a comedic last note, we never received our grade for our final exam. He uploaded our final grades to Testudo without releasing them. However, it appeared that he curved the class quite modestly. This would definitely be a 1-star review if it weren't for the fact that he makes it easy to pass the class. I cannot recommend that you take him, but it is not the end of the world if you have to take him. You probably won't learn much, but you will at least check another class off of your list. There's an added bonus that you'll be able to laugh about your experience with your friends once you finish his course.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/09/2023	I honestly thought Iliadis was alright compared to the other reviews. To be fair, he can definitely be rude, such as during exams he would randomly be like "this exam is easy guys, why is it taking so long??" and when I was the last person to turn the exam in, he would go "why are you last?" In addition, he would begin every lecture asking if we had any questions, and either get annoyed if we didn't have any, or would get annoyed if the questions were "too simple." His exams were also all derivation, and we were given no equation sheet, so you just had to hope that you memorized the right derivations and formulas or you were immediately down at least 30%. However, I always thought his lectures were very good and easy to follow, and he would upload his notes after every class. If you approached him individually, I always found that he was much more respectful and willing to answer questions, which he knew the course content very well. He also curved the class very heavily, which was a nice bonus after the not great exam averages. The homework was also very easy, with the textbook containing all the examples needed to complete it. If you are able to put in the effort in the course and study on your own time, you will be fine, otherwise you still might be okay with the curve. Definitely look at the review from 12/25/2019, as their outline is accurate and will help you do well in this class.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H Anonymous 08/07/2022	This professor's course was not a pleasant experience for me. The class was extremely disorganized, homework problems were often completely unrelated to material covered during lecture, and it was impossible to know what exam questions would cover. Additionally, the textbook for this course is one of the worst textbooks, making it difficult to even self teach the material. Lectures usually consist of Professor Iliadis scribbling his own words on a blank document while trying to follow the derivations in the textbook. Very boring. He also came off as arrogant and rude at times when interacting with students who asked or answered questions during class. Although he says you don't need to memorize any formulas or derivations for exams/quizzes, you need to memorize them. He will often test a very specific derivation from the textbook in an exam, and it's not possible to figure it out during the exam. It's all memorization. The only reason I'm not giving 1 star is because he grades super leniently. There's no need to worry much about what your final grade will be, as the curve is very large. But, the process of getting there is painful and extremely frustrating. If you only want a good grade, Iliadis isn't a bad choice. But, your experience will likely not be enjoyable.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/17/2021	Terrible professor and does not want to teach. Also a rude person.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/25/2019	First thing you should know about Illiadis is that he has no desire to teach. He opens each lecture by asking if any students have questions from the current chapter (as if anyone has even looked at the textbook) and structures his lectures off of random tangents that are not cohesive whatsoever. Despite this approach to teaching, you can get an A in this class. 1. You need to go lecture. Although lecture seems useless, he drops a lot of key information that will come up on exams/quizzes. He hints to potential topics for free responses, multiple choice questions, and will state specific page numbers that are important. 2. You need to memorize equations and their derivations. Leading up to a midterm he will emphasize a lot of topics that you should know VERY well. He is explicit about which derivations you should know so there are no surprises, but make sure can explain every step. 3. Read the textbook. The textbook for this class is painful, but it is critical for the multiple choice. You'll be surprised by the random information you'll retain just by skimming over the textbook once. However, the multiple choice is not the end all be all. It's usually about 15-20% of each midterm and the class is curved heavily. He's also emphasized topics in class that I've seen come up in the multiple choice. 4. The numerical problems are very straight forward. Make sure you redo your homeworks and look over the example problems for each chapter. The numerical problem (singular) will be very similar to something you've seen before. Overall, this class is not terrible if you play your cards right. The homework is super manageable, typically 4-5 problems per homework. I think we had 6 assignments over the course of the whole semester.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Anonymous 12/21/2019	Very, very few assignments to be graded off of. Lecture was very hard to follow and almost useless, learned almost nothing from it. Does not return your exams and takes quite a long time to grade them. Speaking of exams, good luck, as he does not release practice exams and they are nothing like the homework. No idea what my grade will be in the course, as he has not provided any criteria for curving whatsoever. Exam averages were 58% and 72% respectively. Final exam still has not been graded, over a week later. 2 stars instead of 1 because the workload was very light.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Anonymous 05/31/2019	Awful professor. I don't think anyone learned a single thing during lecture. Need to learn everything from the textbook, but still go to lecture because it helps for the exams. He was quite arrogant, and unresponsive to student needs.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE303 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/23/2019	Not a good professor. The class relied on memorizing formulas instead of using formula sheets which is not a good way to really learn the material, as the focus should be on learning how to solve circuit problems rather than plugging numbers into equations. The exams were very difficult to prepare for, as the HW that he gives is not what you would see on the exam, neither are the problems in the book. On top of that, he doesn't solve proper examples in class involving quantities, he just presents the formula and how he got there. Avoid if you can.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/20/2018	Not a fan. Maybe it was the content, but I couldn't stay engaged in the lectures. He couldn't keep straight when homework was due and the exams (extremely formula heavy) did not allow formula sheets. I spent more time making sure I knew the equations than understanding the premise of the class. I can't recommend Iliadis for 313, take Daniels if he is available.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H Expecting an A+ jjjnmk 11/13/2015	Iliadis is an okay professor. The way he approaches the class, at least in his ENEE313H class, was to give the students a really high-level conceptual understanding of all of the course content. He goes through tons of proofs on the board in his lectures, getting into the nitty gritty math behind derivations. However, he himself doesn't really do practice problems during class time. You'll have to depend on your TA or yourself to get practice problem help. Homework was pretty light. He has this habit of assigning homework problems concerning topics that he hasn't covered himself in lecture yet, so I'd try to find a solution manual. Tests were in the format of half multiple choice, half free...response. Multiple choice questions tested your high-level conceptual understanding of things, and in free response, some questions were also to test your conceptual understanding of the concept, qualitatively deriving behaviors and such. A small portion of the free response were actual calculations questions. The best way to study for his exams are to really understand the derivations in how to do them step by step, and what kind of assumptions are made in justifying each one. After that, being able to understand how to do some of the simple calculations problems that he assigns for homework, and you're good as gold. There is a curve at the end. My grades on the two midterms were 86 and 87, and he said that I'm on track to get an A+ or an A if I slip a little too much on the final. Edit: This semester, I am also taking Iliadis for 303, and he teaches the beginning of 303 pretty much like 313. Our first exam for 303 could have been our first exam in 313 the semester before. He typically gives a quiz the class before a test, just to show you what you do or don't know. These quizzes don't count for that much, and he tends to recycle questions from them to put on the exam, so keep track of what the questions are.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H soulelite 05/17/2015	ENEE313, Introduction to Device Physics, is probably one of my least favorite ENEE courses. With that being said, Iliadis's lectures were pretty boring. There is not much structure to his lectures and he goes all over the place. The textbook he assigns is also very dense, and it is a pain to read. I actually would recommend taking Professor Goldman's course. Goldman wrote his own textbook for 313, and I actually ended up using it to study for the final as it was more straight forward than Iliadis's assigned textbook. Also, from Professor Goldman's website, he posts HW solutions and practice exams, which Iliadis does not do at all. I would have given Iliadis a 3, but once I went to his office to see my exam, and he ended up just regrading it and took an additional 4 points off. I was so baffled because he wouldn't even let me see my own exam, and he his grading methodology is so random. He literally said I took some points off here because I don't know what you were doing.
Agisilaos Iliadis Expecting an A Anonymous 03/04/2015	413 is a complete waste of time. I took Iliadis for 313 and he covers the EXACT same material with same quizzes and same exams. He uses a different book though (Buy the international edition from ebay, it will save you a lot). If you are interested in device physics and want to learn something new I recommend 411, 419A, 489Q, or 496. The exams were pretty similar to those in 313, except a question or two that was harder. Some exam questions tend to be confusing. Often times he would say "we discussed this in lecture" when in reality he didn't really talk about it or blew off the explanation. He also tends to make people feel awkward, especially in a small class like ours. With that being said, I think he does care about us doing well. Even though his lectures are bleh you should still go and take notes because his exam will be based off of it.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2014	Iliadis is an okay professor. His lectures can be a bit boring but he isn't too bad at explaining the material. You realize he goes over the material pretty decently but you may not get a lot out of it. The workload is fairly light since there was little homework (I wish there was more HW to be better prepared for exams). Exams were pretty straightforward, there are simple computational questions, some derivations, and multiple choice questions. You pretty much have to remember the handful of formulas for the exam. He didn't give us back our exams for some reason, though the averages were really high. He is also disorganized and doesn't give very clear explanations. You need to read the book ahead of time to get the most out of his lectures. Overall, not a bad class and not hard to get an A.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313 Anonymous 04/11/2011	I stand by most of the comments the other reviewers wrote, but I'll add one thing that may or may not discourage people from taking a class with this professor. I recently received a test back in this class, and doubted some of the point penalties I got on a few of the problems. When I asked him what I should have done to get full credit on one problem, he looked at my answer and said, (his words, not mine), "This is bull-s*." I was a little surprised, since I understand what "B.S.-ing" an answer means, and this was not a B.S. answer. I proceeded to try and figure out why he didn't agree with my answer, but I'm just as clueless as I was before. I consider myself a good student, and I get that I'm not going to have the grades I want all the time, but I still don't appreciate my hard work on a test being referred to as "bull-s*". I will try very hard to avoid taking any more classes from this professor, and I will personally recommend that other students avoid this professor as well.
Agisilaos Iliadis ENEE313H Anonymous 05/23/2010	Lectures are not really that interesting, although looking back, the material itself is pretty interesting as you are finding out what goes on inside stuff like transistors to make them work the way they do. The main problem with Iliadis is he doesn't explain stuff thoroughly enough. Many of his lectures require knowledge from other 300 level EE classes. This being said, his exams a very fair and he does not give much hw at all (I actually kind of wished he would give us more so that I could feel more prepared for the exams). The hw he does give is basically impossible to do solely from the lecture material. One nice thing was he emphasized knowing the concepts more than just being able to plug in numbers to equations.
Agisilaos Iliadis Expecting an A Anonymous 12/30/2009	I'm not sure why some people expected to use cheatsheets, when he specifically said no cheatsheets allowed. You have to know the important equations for this class by heart and know some of the derivations. Minus the second exam, he's required some type of derivation on every exam. He tends to take points off your exam without really telling you why. (ie.checkmarks everywhere and a -10 points out of nowhere) Don't even bother going to class unless you want to waste time. He's incoherent and never finishes his sentences. I don't think he's ever properly answered anyone's questions because he frequently goes off tangent. Most of the time, he doesn't even bother to show up to class on time. In short, his lectures are useless. You'd be better off learning the material on your own. I never took ENEE313 before taking this class, but from what I hear, the material from this class is same as the material in ENEE313. Besides all the bad points, Illiadis is a fair professor. He really wants people to do well in his class. When a lot of people did horrible on the first exam, he gave us an essay to write to boost our first exam grades. And during the second exam, when people kept asking him questions about one of the problems, he gave hints on how to solve the problem.
Agisilaos Iliadis Expecting a B Anonymous 12/29/2009	If you take this class with him, expect to memorize every equation you need, and you will need a lot of them. The exams are not hard; if you know the formulas, it is literally plug-and-chug like a homework problem. This would have been nice to know beforehand, however, as he does not tell you this and a few people actally walked into the final expecting to be able to use a cheetsheet. If you don't know the right formula, you're dead in the water.
Agisilaos Iliadis Expecting an A- penluva 12/15/2009	-Bad/boring lectures -Late returning grades (when he grades papers himself, not the TA) -Midterms have no comments on how he deducted points -Often late to his own lectures +Reasonably easy homeworks +Midterms were fair and he reviews material +Assigns extra credit if class average is low