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Joseph JaJa
ENEE436 Anonymous 05/14/2024 |
Professor Jaja has been the worst professor I've ever encountered. His lectures are monotonous and challenging to follow, as he introduces equations without context, assuming prior knowledge from students. The decline in lecture attendance over the semester is a strong reflection of the poor quality of his classes. Attempting to self-study for this course is equally arduous due to the inadequately annotated and illegible notes provided. Furthermore, the absence of a cheat sheet during exams is unreasonable given the vast number of equations we are expected to memorize. Additionally, the professor's refusal to distribute sample exams undermines student preparation. Despite his assertion that his notes are suffice, they are sorely lacking for the reasons stated. I am profoundly dissatisfied with the course and strongly advise others to avoid it if taught by Professor Jaja. |
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Joseph JaJa
ENEE290 Expecting a B+ plannetterpuser63790 03/16/2024 |
I took ENEE290 in Fall 2023 and JaJa was a good professor. It was the second semester of the class being run and the course was structured to alternate between diff eq and linear algebra. His lecturing was very monotone but if you can get past that, you'll find that his lectures are helpful and he wants you to succeed. When introducing new topics, he generally took us through the derivation for a particular method, be it for diff eq or linear algebra, which I didn't find terribly helpful, but it's there if you learn better like that. Some topics took a few lectures to stick, like when we started covering eigenvalues and eigenspaces in the linear algebra units, but in general, if you know what to ask about, he will try his best to clear any confusion, so much so to the point that when almost the entire class got a question wrong on the first exam, he spent the next lecture taking us through how to answer it properly. The exams were quite easy and covered mostly more recent content. Homework assignments were split between mathy assignments, which I felt were significantly harder than class content and exams, and MATLAB "labs." There was no curve for the class. Overall 3.5/5. |
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Joseph JaJa
ENEE436 Anonymous 03/13/2024 |
Haven't finished the course, about to take the first exam. I thought I had the worst of it already, nope. This is by far the worst professor and teacher I have had at this University. Hopefully you guys are fortunate enough to disagree but his lectures for this class are horrendous. You can't understand him, nor can you read his writing. On top of that, his lectures are lackluster, he mainly goes over equations and NEVER discusses application. Most of the formulas are mathematical representations of algorithms as well, meaning you need some practice using them to understand but that's typically glossed over. Exams are closed note closed book, no cheat sheet, no calculator. He has no sample exams because he does not believe in them and no practice problems. His homework takes days to finish if you use only the textbook to help (with essentially entire coding projects on each). Avoid this course at all costs if it's with Joseph Jaja, I was so excited to take machine learning but this has surely disappointed me. |
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Joseph JaJa
ENEE101 Expecting a B- Anonymous 03/08/2024 |
Great professor. Amazing guy |
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Joseph JaJa
ENEE436 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2021 |
Jaja is one of the worst professors I have had. You don't learn anything from him and he doesn't put any effort in explaining the concepts. You are expected to solve complicated homework problems and you have to teach yourself everything. |
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Joseph JaJa
ENEE436 Anonymous 11/22/2021 |
I came into class excited about machine learning but Dr. Jaja made it painfully boring. He lectures in a monotone, and rather than explaining concepts he just uses math equations. I know machine learning involves math but would it kill him to actually explain concepts like what is a support vector etc His notes are terrible as he writes them beforehand and he expects you to memorize complicated equations for exams. You can't even use the book as he goes beyond the textbook. Overall horrible class. Do yourself a favor and DON'T TAKE HIM!!! |
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Joseph JaJa
ENEE633 Expecting a B baicaibaicai 01/06/2016 |
He is very nice and you can learn much from his class. I got a B because I didn't put much effort on this course. |