Giuliano Scarcelli

This professor has taught: BIOE232, BIOE371, BIOE372, BIOE433, BIOE489I, BIOE608, BIOE632, GEMS296, GEMS297, GEMS396, GEMS397, GEMS496, GEMS497

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Giuliano Scarcelli BIOE232 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/23/2024	Take thermo with this professor if you can! Giuliano is a super fair, kind, and fun professor. He makes his lectures fun and he genuinely wants us to succeed. His exams and homework were quite fair and he is always open to ideas to improve the course, homeworks (HWs), exams, etc. His exams are based on his HWs and the problems he does in class and discussion. His clas format is also interesting because we have recorded lectures and the next day in class he will go over the main topics from the videos and go through some problems. More problems are solved in discussion. Then one of the "lecture" days are designated office hours with the professor. Most people do their HW at that time and he answers all your questions and checks your answers then and there. If you practice the problems and understand the concepts you will do well in this class, almost guaranteed!
Giuliano Scarcelli BIOE232 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/11/2023	Giuliano is the sweetest and definitely most caring professor I've had. He definitely makes sure to get to know his students and takes feedback very seriously and has a genuine desire to make sure students have everything they need to succeed. He really put in the effort to ask for our opinions on how the class was going and already had plans in place to pivot if needed. He was once even chewed out (rudely) by a student about how we were prepared for an exam (no one really agreed with this student), and when other students voiced that they disagreed with this student Giuliano still made an effort to validate that student's opinion and reasoned that people learn in different ways and promised to try to adjust for them as well. He's also a very lenient grader. You can get a totally incorrect numerical answer on an exam and still get full credit if you can explain why the answer you got doesn't make sense, because he ACTUALLY cares about his students learning. He wants you to understand the material/derivations and cares less about little calculation errors. You can tell he's a very passionate guy. He's even stated that thermo is one of his least favorite subjects but somehow he had the most helpful and lively lectures, even despite having his class immediately after two other back-to-back hour and a half classes each week. If you go to discussions and office hours (which he holds instead of lecture during his Thursday classes so it's super convenient), his exams are totally doable and fair.
Giuliano Scarcelli BIOE232 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/20/2022	I like Giuliano a lot. He is probably the only BIOE professor I've had that actually seems to enjoy teaching and getting to know you. Exams are kinda hard but we definitely take harder classes in BIOE so thermo overall isn't that bad
Giuliano Scarcelli BIOE232 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/15/2022	Amazing professor super sweet and helpful. He only has negative reviews because there is an insanely rude girl in his class this semester who yells at him and writes bad reviews. He is a great professor and person really kind and gives great helpful resources to students. He wants all of his students to succeed.
Giuliano Scarcelli BIOE232 Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/15/2022	I think I lowkey know who posted the negative review on 11/8 but lemme tell you, Scarcelli is one of the best professors I’ve had. He is so goofy and sweet and genuinely cares about your understanding of the material. He is a professor that wants you to succeed. The people who do not do well in this class guess and retake the online quizzes without watching the lectures, they do not attend classes on Tuesday’s where the lecture material is reiterated, they copy the homework’s without understanding, they do not attend Thursday office hour classes, and they do not show up to discussions on Friday. Of course if you put in the bare minimum, you will not be happy with your test scores. Scarcelli goes out of his way to provide the necessary materials you need to succeed, is SUPER nice about partial credit (he wants to see that you understand the theory behind topics), and is just overall a good guy. If you don’t take advantage of the classes, quizzes, online lectures, office hours, and discussions, then that’s on you lmao. (Shoutout to Anjali for being the best TA btw. She’s super helpful and clearly explains how to do relevant practice problems, so make sure you don’t miss them)
Giuliano Scarcelli BIOE232 Anonymous 11/08/2022	Doesn’t explain materials well and does not give help to students
Giuliano Scarcelli BIOE232 Anonymous 11/08/2022	Scarcelli does not explain the material well and does not give any outside resources to help understand the materials other than homework problems.
Giuliano Scarcelli BIOE372 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/24/2020	One of the worst professors I have ever had. Does not explain material well at all. He’s an awful teacher in general and should be avoided at all costs. Oh yeah, if you do have him for the final, have fun because he puts impossible questions to drop your grade. Thanks for a great Christmas gift!
Giuliano Scarcelli BIOE372 Anonymous 01/02/2018	The class is not a conventional statistics class, which is fine considering its applied to bioengineering. But where the class fell short is the professor. Scarcelli lacks the ability to explain the material well & his questions are bizarrely worded. He refuses to answer any questions that would clarify his confusing wording on exams. Avoid him.