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Vincent Nguyen
ENES401 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/04/2024 |
Vince slander is largely related to the nature of ENME371 taking up insane amounts of time which is true for any professor who teaches this. At his core, he cares a lot about students success and is more than willing to help out anyone who has questions, even at the expense of his own personal time. For this class, he gave us a lot of autonomy and only checked in once a week where we would talk about progress and next steps. I would say that this class is more of a time commitment that a traditional course, but definitely manageable across the entire group. At any issue or roadblock that we've had, he's been more than willing to help out and work with us to find a solution. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME371 Anonymous 10/16/2024 |
He says a lot of words but means nothing at all. He just talks to fill blank space. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME371 Anonymous 08/22/2024 |
Pros: You learn how to work as a team and Vince loves to give help. Really hard to fail ENME371 Cons: Vince is a really harsh grader. (His definition of a perfect assignment is 90% and to earn more points you need to go beyond his expectations) The time spent in this class. (10-25 hours per week) |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENES401 Expecting an A Anonymous 07/03/2024 |
Vince is a decent professor. He's got a lot going on which can make things feel rushed and disorganized at times, but at the end of the day he will push you to do meaningful and rewarding work. Would not recommend for anyone who just wants a chill class and an easy A. Very tough grader as he has borderline unreasonable expectations, but if you put in good effort you will do well in the class. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENES401 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/18/2024 |
Course IS a mech-e capstone class, despite having the ENES course tag. Vincent is a great guy and very real, but don't expect to be able to architect your own product. if you're a CS major trying to take this for a ENES4xx class for an easy ULC I would NOT, this is not a simple class and you will regularly put in many more hours than you would a typical ENES class like ENES472/475/463/461 etc. Also other 371 reviews apply. |
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Vincent Nguyen
Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2024 |
He is an okay guy but in my opinion he overcomplicates a lot of material. Personally, I find that he should give more time for the students to collaborate together. Hes a yapper. But honestly, this class was just annoying regardless. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME361 Expecting a C Anonymous 01/25/2024 |
Very tough grader. He won't give partial credit at all. He is a nice person, but his lecture is really fast-paced. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME371 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/27/2023 |
The thing about this class is it's really hard to get an A or A+ but it's also really hard to get a C and literally no one fails. If you want in A you're going to have to put in a frankly ridiculous amount of work. I'd regularly put in 25-30 hours on top of lecture and lab time on each lab assignment. Honestly you're probably better off putting in less work and just being happy with a B and focusing on your other classes. I pulled way to many all-nighters for this stupid class. Not worth it. Also do anything you can to avoid having him as your section teacher, he grades super super harshly compared to the others. I don't think we had a single assignment where the lowest grade in the entire class wasn't someone in our section. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME371 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/22/2023 |
This class should be at least a 4 or 5 credits class in terms of the course load. Even though Dr. Vince is a very knowledgeable guy, he does not know what kind of pain students are going through while taking his class. He will assign as many reports as possible so that you will have to at least dedicate 8-10 hours outside of lecture time for the reports. The grading for his sections is especially tough and not reasonable compared to other groups. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME371 Expecting a P Anonymous 04/22/2023 |
teacher demands too much out of students. class drains my time and mental capacity. idk how this is allowed. he has absolutely no guilt either. id love to see him put 10 hrs a week on top of lecture ... |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME371 Expecting a P Anonymous 03/15/2023 |
horrible , has no respect for students time. He must legitmatley think his course is the only course we are taking. probabaly have to dedicate 20 -25 hours a week for this class a week a report is due... which is every week |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME361 Expecting a B Anonymous 08/15/2022 |
This class was incredibly challenging, but not for the reason of the content being overly difficult. The lectures are insanely fast paced, and you'll get one, or maybe half of an example that will be extremely easy compared to HW and exams. HW much easier than exams, so not really relevant for helping your grade. For our section, you basically got a handful of practice exam questions that might be similar to what was on the exam, but the exam would be different enough to throw you off. He refused to give practice exam solutions which made it impossible to tell if you were doing anything correctly. Harsh grader as stated, but HW was graded on completion not accuracy. Massive curve for our class so a few F averages ended up passing with minimum C- or better. Class content could be interesting but this class is so focused on derivations that I feel very little real world use is gained from this class. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME371 Expecting an A- Anonymous 08/04/2022 |
371 is broken up by having lecture taught by Vince and then studio sections led by other professors at UMD. Vince led lectures and these were very boring and long. He speaks very fast where he trips over his own words at times, but is a knowledgeable person. To ensure students attend lecture, he does clicker questions, but he will go over and give the answer as long as enough students attempt to answer and participate. Vince does lead one section for studios and you should AVOID him at all cost. His section normally has the lowest averages as Vince is a tough grader. There is a curve applied, but it varies across each section leader (each section has it's own curve). To do well in 371, it really depends on who your group is and who your section leader is. There is a lot of work to be done in studios and outside of class, so having a group of students that do not procrastinate is super helpful. The work is not too challenging, it just is a lot to do and is tedious, especially if you make a mistake in a lab and need to start over. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME361 Anonymous 01/11/2022 |
Very good professor. Explains the material well. Exams are similar to the practice exams but he's an extremely tough grader. If you make a minor mistake at the beginning of a problem and other questions depend on that answer, you will get something close to a zero on the rest of the exam. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME371 Anonymous 02/22/2021 |
Vince is very particular professor. He thinks he knows the best way for students to learn and ubiquitously applies that learning methodology across all of his students. For example, requiring students to attend lecture with clicker participation quizzes and then creating weekly quizzes that pretty much check that you went to lecture. He assigns a ton of work to keep you busy. He also speaks very loudly over Zoom. On the other hand, I think his exams are fair, though he is a very harsh grader and is definitely looking out to take off points. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME361 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/25/2021 |
So I took this class over the winter. Overall it is a lot of material in a short amount of time. There are 4 exams, 5 Hw's , 8 quizzes, and one take home exam. A lot of work for only 13 class sessions. Vince is tough, but he really wants us to be great engineers. Vince is concise, he clearly explains and relates all the material to real world examples. He does hold all students to a high standard, so just be prepared to suffer, but its for a good reason. I would take Vince again because I will be a better engineer for it, not because I enjoy working so hard. In short, Vince is a great professor. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME361 Anonymous 01/24/2021 |
He cares about you learning the material. So learn it. Try not to make mistakes on the exams though. |
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Vincent Nguyen
ENME371 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 06/08/2020 |
Vince is nice and cares about his students BUT he's a tough grader. |