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Jeffery Klauda
CHBE302 Expecting a P Anonymous 04/22/2021 |
In all honesty this professor is really intelligent, but somewhere along in 302 this man's exam makes me want to puke. His research is really intelligent. He is soft spoken, and does not make the class interesting at all. Maybe do like an experiment in the back of your house or something. He overwhelms you with all this information and equations that you probably cannot even do on paper. He honestly makes the class harder than it has to be. In my experience use another book call Fundamental of thermodynamics. The homeworks are so hard that you lose motivation and do not even want to study. His exams are not fair at all to the students, he rushes over partial derivatives to be used in thermo and that ends up being 35% of thermo 2, in all honesty good luck but you do not have a choice!!! |
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Jeffery Klauda
Expecting a B Anonymous 01/17/2013 |
Professor: Very soft-spoken. There isn't much inflection in his voice. His hand-writing is really bad as well. To understand him, sit as close to the front board as possible. For some reason, he doesn't use a microphone, and writes with the little chalk (we had class in the armory - depending on where you sit, it was hit and miss whether or not you could see the whole board. He seems like a nice guy - but I get the impression that he would rather be anywhere but teaching undergrads... Class: Graded on three (3) exams: two (2) midterms and one (1) final; homework; and pop quizzes. I believe he curved our class so that > 83% = A. He did this using stat (of course!), so it will change depending on your medians and standard deviations. The book will become your best friend; use it wisely. For some of the homeworks, you will need the program Minitab; it's not available on the VCL, so you will need to either use a trial version, or purchase it. The professor usually goes over an example of how to do certian things in Minitab - but he typically speeds through it. SO whenever he does demonstrate it, be quick about writing down a few steps to help you remember. THe book uses Minitab as well, but doesn't show you how to use it. THe class covers probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, etc. |
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Jeffery Klauda
Expecting a B Anonymous 12/31/2012 |
He's whatever. His lectures are not very interesting, so bring something else to do (fluids hw, lol). You have to come to class because he has pop quizzes. I found that the textbook was pretty good to learn off of, so I pretty much never listened to him. His exams are not that hard. Be sure to pay attention when he goes over Minitab, as you will need it to do homework. A nice thing about Klauda is that you can ask him for help pretty much anytime, which was nice. Just a word of advice, become comfortable with Minitab earlier on in the course because you will definitely need it for the last few chapters. Minitab is very useful for the homeworks, and will save you a lot of time vs. using Excel. So become comfortable with Minitab as soon as you can. |
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Jeffery Klauda
Expecting a C Anonymous 02/20/2012 |
Best advice for Klauda... sit in front of the class, pay very close attention, write everything down. Especially the examples. In fact, if you write nothing else down, write down the examples. He's very hard to pay attention to because he talks so quietly and quickly, and sometimes it makes no sense how he gets from one equation to the next. The textbook helps a lot, but he'll do derivations that aren't in the book, or describe things in ways that aren't stated in the book. So it's really only a supplement to his lectures. DO the homeworks. DONT miss quizzes. His tests aren't so bad. There's also a group project towards the end. My honest opinion of him... he's a relatively nice guy, and he's pretty available to meet if you have any questions. Just don't expect to become buds. |
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Jeffery Klauda
undergrad2011 05/13/2011 |
His lectures will are okay if you're good at statistics and math. He tends to cover a lot of information in a lot of detail. Often it is not clear why methods of analysis proceed the way they do, or are applied the way they are so both statistical and organizational skills are needed to succeed and make sense of the formulas. So its really up to you to adsorb the methods and and make all the math mean something. His notes are largely a summary from the book, which is well chosen. His notes correspond so well to the book that often, you can go back and read the book if you had trouble in lecture. He uses so much Minitab for statistical analysis that you get the feeling he may have shares in Minitab software. Anyway, its the only class in which we learn about how to assess the statistical significance of quality control tests - so its a must take if you're serious about engineering. |
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Jeffery Klauda
Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/27/2009 |
He couldn't teach a monkey to eat a banana. Hearing his voice, you'll fall asleep instantly, He Pretty much writes equations from the book and writes it on the board, so lectures are completely useless. His quizzes are ridiculously annoying. As a person, he's ok, really quiet. I think the reason why he hasn't been fired is because he does good research, but if it wasn't for that he would have been gone. |