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Mark Shayman
ENEE324 Expecting a D Anonymous 05/21/2024 |
Gives absolutely no partial credit and is discouraging when you seek help. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE324 Anonymous 05/19/2024 |
He mostly just sits in his chair and talks, while slowly dragging a mouse across a PDF document of slides that he borrowed from an MIT professor. This makes the lectures very monotonous and hard to follow. The homework assignments he gives out are incredibly long and time-consuming, often requiring hours of effort to complete. On top of that, his exams are extremely difficult, with questions that are much more challenging than the material covered in class. Many students struggled to keep up and find it hard to do well in his class. Overall, I would strongly recommend avoiding this professor if you can. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE324 Anonymous 05/12/2024 |
The lectures are reused from an open source MIT course. The textbook noted in the syllabus was not utilized, not even for homework. Also, homework was assigned weekly, it was time consuming, and you could automatically receive an F if your homework grade dropped below 50%. The exams were surprisingly difficult too, there’s little to no partial credit, and you need to prepare by practicing less time consuming problems that you’ve may have never seen before. The challenging part to this was getting through the homework load first and finding additional reference material. The final is worth 30%. I would recommend going to office hours for help. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE426 Anonymous 05/09/2024 |
No effort in lecture. He didn't have a clear outline of the material. Only relied on textbook provided slides and other author slides. He would add his own text written notes on slides as "clarifications", but they were little to no help. Little to no going over examples. When he would go over examples, it would be auditory with no board walkthroughs and quickly glossed over. Provided no feedback on exams with "all or nothing" grading. Homework problems take up the majority of your time with the class. Do not take this class if you expect to get something out of it. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE425 Anonymous 12/20/2021 |
It's clear that he cares very much about the subject and prepares for class by going through the textbook and creating his own slides, and even finding programming projects to go along with the material. However, lectures end up just being him reading off of the slides without really explaining much. You can get more out of just reading the textbook on your own. Homeworks and exams felt completely different than lecture material, but they were straightforward and are essentially from the textbook examples. I would recommend watching Oppenheim's MIT lectures to get the most out of the material (no offense to Dr. Shayman, but the author of the book just does it better). Overall, nice guy but could be a much better lecturer. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE324 Anonymous 05/27/2021 |
My biggest complaint with Dr. Shayman would be the homework/exam content. Lectures are mainly based off of concepts/definitions but the homework is generally tedious and barely covered by lecture. Discussion is essential to be able to even start some of the homework problems. Exams were not terrible but are similar to the homework with some question topics only being taught conceptually with little to no prior practice. To succeed you'll probably need to grind out problems similar to the ones on the homework. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE426 Anonymous 05/23/2021 |
He's alright, he mostly just read off slides. Looking at testbanks for other professors for this course, his exams are significantly, significantly easier in terms of content being tested, but also be warned that he gives very little partial credit. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE420 Anonymous 05/04/2021 |
Pretty happy overall with Shayman's teaching. Grading was fair. Wish more examples were worked in class. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE426 Anonymous 04/13/2021 |
He puts no effort in, just reads off slides, assigns hw without teaching us how to solve problems. HORRIBLE |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE322 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/20/2018 |
Shayman is pretty decent. Lectures are followable and neatly written if a bit dry (like his throat). Homework was doable and kept you paced. Exams were fair/a bit tough but if you knew the material well you could do well. His pop quizzes were annoying, but they basically counted for nothing so it was no big deal. Plus his curve was pretty good. There might be better choices for 322 like Marcus, but I think Shayman is a pretty good option. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE322 Anonymous 11/21/2017 |
Found his lectures difficult to follow and he's a little condescending when you ask questions. I heard this from a lot of people I talked to in my class as well. He doesn't seem to know how to explain things to students who don't immediately get it. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE324 soulelite 09/30/2016 |
Pretty good professor overall. Homeworks were very reasonable and he was very clear on what to expect on exams. Only downside is that his lectures will put you to sleep, although any professor teaching 324 might do the same. |
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Mark Shayman
ENEE324H nbadami 05/20/2016 |
He's not a bad professor honestly. He does a good job of teaching you the material and can be quite helpful in his office hours. His lectures can be kind of dense, but that's just because of the nature of the course; there's a lot of material to cover. My biggest problem with this guy is that he gives absolutely no partial credit, which can really hurt you on the exams. The average in my honors section was a D going into the final because of this. If you get stuck with Shayman, you will learn a lot, but if you're worried about your GPA, I'd recommend someone else. |