Peter Sunderland

This professor has taught: ENES100, ENES100A, ENFP101, ENFP300, ENFP310, ENFP320, ENFP350, ENFP415, ENFP420, ENFP630, ENFP651, GEMS296

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Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/08/2023	Peter was not a great professor. He was not able to answer some very important questions when it came to building and coding the robots. He relied completely on the TF and never had good criticism. He was lazy, boring and unhelpful. I would not recommend taking his course. Take someone else.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting a B Anonymous 02/04/2022	Peter is a nice person, and the assignments are easy, but the first two quizzes will melt your brain. Nobody on the first quiz got a 10. The last arduino quiz is very easy though. He is easy on you at first on the milestones, but eventually becomes tougher, and he does not like to push back milestone assignments like a few of the other ENES100 professors. What is listed is the due date. Sometimes I don't know if he's an English professor or an engineering professor. Tiny formatting errors will dock huge points on written reports. Sometimes the advice given is not practical cost-wise. He ultimately curved many people down (as well as me), contradicting everyone's statements that this class would be an easy A. Find another professor if you care about your grade.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Anonymous 12/19/2021	Nice guy, but a very harsh grader when it comes to writing. He's helpful when trying to give ideas to your team. When comparing his grade data to other ENES100 professors, it is clear that he gives out much fewer A's and that I find that slightly unfair because when registering each section has TBA listed as the prof and you just have to get lucky.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/14/2021	He is a nice guy but he is truly one of the worst teachers I have ever had in my life. The man does not help you with your project at all, and he makes us do the most irrelevant work and grades it so harshly for no reason. Acts like ENES100 is an academic writing class every time we have to write anything and it gets to the point where you can't stand him. Stands around idly every class period doing absolutely nothing I have no idea how he does not get bored.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2020	Sigh He is so so nice in lecture, but can be really difficult with his assignments. I am so grateful I had him during an online semester, because it seems he is way worse in person. When I took ENES100, all profs were TBA, so I was frustrated when I realized I had Sunderland. I can't really recommend him, but I also can't shit on him much. He does things a little differently from the other enes100 profs, so if possible, maybe take one that has better grade data. He was pretty good with the online thing. Very responsive to email.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/18/2019	Dr. Sunderland is a really nice professor and wants to see every person in ENES100 gain practical engineering skills. In my opinion, Dr. Sunderland is much better suited to teaching 300 level courses rather than a 100 level simply because of how high his expectations are. Except for his last quiz about Arduino programming, his quizzes are very easy to fail simply because the questions are 100x harder than any class material. He is not really forgiving with the milestone deadlines, so expect to get low grades on a ton of them unless your group is unusually good. Even with a great TA, taking ENES100 with Dr. Sunderland can be overly stressful.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting a B Anonymous 08/22/2019	I had him for ENES100 and I would say avoid him. He is a really nice guy and he does care about his students. However, if you are expecting the historical easy A from ENES 100, prepare to struggle. His quiz average was 60% and it was 15% of the final grade so you already are down a bit. And unless you have a very technical adept team (or a team that actually does their work on time without excessive reminders), you will struggle with accomplishing the milestones towards the end for the OSV. I have heard from other ENES 100 students in other classes that even though they were unable to achieve the final milestones, you still got credit for showing effort. But nope not with Sunderland. Take note of his ENES 100 grade distribution and it is almost a bell where 40% people get Bs. Anyway, choose your professor wisely. This class is a time sink as it is and with this professor it is not an easy A.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/22/2018	Sunderland's grading is pretty lax for the Milestone parts of your grade which is good, but his quizzes are not really fair for the content he had taught to the class. With the quizzes being 15% of your final grade and with the average on those quizzes to be about 60%, 60% of that 15 is already losing 6 percent of your grade assuming you score average.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting a B TheTrooth 02/02/2015	Peter is a great guy. You really only experience his teaching for the first half of the semester, but even then you can tell he is a good professor. If I were to take a ENFP class, I would take Peter.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2010	Fair grader and really nice guy. Good teacher for the material in the first half of the semester but once you start actually building your hovercraft he really is of no help. But he does try to get you the highest grade possible so I would recommend him. Just don't expect him to do anything once you are building the hovercraft except stand towards the side of the classroom and look awkward.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting an A joepenn1 05/01/2009	Good teacher that does really care if your understanding the material. ENES 100 is supposed to be a class you struggle through because it teaches you the basics of team design in engineering. Sunderland helps you through this process and always have many review sessions for homework and the such. Loves to give A's for those who both try their hardest and simply know the material. Great teacher
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting an A jwalsh16 12/17/2008	He is excellent and cares alot about his students. He is very helpful and a fair grader. Chose him over all the other teachers if you have the chance.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2008	He was overall a very nice and understanding teacher. When it was clear that most hovercraft teams were stuggling with stuctural or technical components of the project he was forgiving and extended the deadline for a critical milestone. His explanations of the Friday technical lectures were fairly clear. The only downside is that for an engineering professor, he's very tough on grammar.
Peter Sunderland ENES100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/02/2008	Dr. Sunderland is a really nice guy. Many of the other engineering teachers are nasty and arrogant in my opinion. Peter also takes the time to go over lecture material from Fridays during class and he is very encouraging. I sometimes find him annoying, though, when he constantly demands how your hovercraft is coming along. Overall, though, I would take Dr. Sunderland over many of the other teachers for ENES100!
Peter Sunderland ENFP415 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/11/2007	The homework had nothing to do with the course. There would usually be about four problems where you had to derive equations. These problems had nothing to do with what was taught in class or the exams. Peter enjoys math theory, but it doesn't have anything to do with our course. The homework was impossible unless you sat in his office and basically had him walk you through it. The only students that did well sat in his office for 2-3 hours and then the other members of the group would copy from each other. There was complete separation between the book and what was taught in class. Peter would give many equations during lectures that weren't in the book. The book itself was terrible.